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The BBC to adapt Les Misérables

Andrew Davies, BBC, BBC1, Les Misérables, Victor Hugo

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Victor Hugo's Les Misérables is coming to the small screen - thanks to a new six-part drama from the BBC. Andrew Davies will adapt the 19th-century novel, set against the epic backdrop of France at a time of civil unrest. In February, Davies stated his...

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Andrew Davies about his adaptation of Les Misérables

Andrew Davies, BBC, Les Misérables, Victor Hugo

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Andrew Davies’s next historical novel adaptation for the BBC will be Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables – but nothing like the “shoddy farrago” of the musical. The adapter of Pride and Prejudice, Middlemarch and most recently War & Peace gave his frank opinion...

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The BBC to announce Sunday adaptation of Les Misérables

Andrew Davies, BBC, Les Misérables, Victor Hugo

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The BBC is to announce a new six-part Sunday night adaptation of Les Misérables , written by the man behind the corporation’s wildly successful production of War and Peace. Andrew Davies, who penned the recent BBC One adaptation of the Tolstoy epic, said...

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