Les Liasons Dangereuses - Choderlos de Laclos (BBC 1992)

Les Liasons Dangereuses by Choderlos de Laclos

Translated by PWK Stone

Adapted by Polly Coles

Directed by Clive Brill

BBC Radio 4 1992

In 8 parts of approximately 30 mins, broadcast late evenings from 20 July, 1992.



Diana Rigg as the Machiavellian Marquise de Merteuil with a splendid supporting cast.



Unlike the Christoper Hampton dramatization, Polly Coles' adaptation for radio stays with the epistolary format of the original book. An ideal format for radio.

The Vicomte de Valmont is determined to seduce the virtuous (and married) Madame de Tourvel, who is living with Valmont's aunt while Monsieur de Tourvel is away for a court case. At the same time, the Marquise de Merteuil is determined to corrupt the young Cécile de Volanges, whose mother has only recently brought her out of a convent to be married to a former lover of Merteuil. Cécile falls in love with the Chevalier Danceny (her music tutor) and Merteuil and Valmont pretend to want to help the secret lovers in order to gain their trust, so that they can use them later in their own schemes......................



The Cast:



Marquise de Merteuil...........Diana Rigg

Vicomte de Valmont.............Roger Allam

Madame de Tourvel..............Juliet Stevenson

Madame de Rosemonde............Gudrun Ure

Cécile de Volanges.............Alison Reid

Madame Volanges................Melinda Walker

Raphael Danceny................Samuel West



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