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NOT AVAILABLE FOR SALE IN SOME COUNTRIES.;Cataloged from publisher supplied information.;Spoken audio file.;Duration: approximately 05:40:00 hr.;Performed by Joss Ackland, Roger Allam, Leslie Phillips.;Originally released by BBC.;"A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation." A dramatization based on the novel by Victor Hugo in which poverty drives Jean Valjean to steal a loaf of bread from a baker's window, an action that will haunt him for the rest of his life; he is sentenced to nineteen years' hard labour and on his release, his fortunes change and he becomes a respectable businessman and member of society--yet his past continues to dog him in the form of the sadistic Inspector Javert, who seems determined to pursue Valjean to the grave.
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Joss Ackland, Roger Allam and Leslie Phillips star in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Victor Hugos classic novel. When poverty drives Jean Valjean to steal a loaf of bread from a bakers window, it is an action that will haunt him for the rest of his life. A citizen of post-revolutionary France, he is sentenced to nineteen years hard labour. On his release, his fortunes change and he becomes a respectable businessman and member of society - and yet his past continues to dog him in the form of the sadistic Inspector Javert, who seems determined to pursue Valjean to the grave. A student uprising is gaining momentum in Paris, and barricades are being built around the city. Valjeans adopted daughter, Cosette, has fallen in love with the young revolutionary Marius, and the lives of all three are in peril unless they can flee to safety. Some of the most significant moments in 19th Century history form the backdrop for Victor Hugos powerful story, in which love and heroism march in the face of poverty and social injustice.