Crash

(adapted from Emile Zola’s novel Money)

What do you need to know? Not much! This is set in the second half of the nineteenth century. The narrator (Glenda Jackson) is the bitter matriarch of a family whose various strands have spread through the whole of France. In this episode we are following Aristide Saccard who wants to make a huge amount of money and what better way than by founding a bank?

Listen out for Royal Holloway Drama graduate Bettrys Jones in a couple of roles!