'Les Misérables' Comes To A Joyous Close

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🗓️ 20 May 2019

⏱️ 16 minutes

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*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Six of *Les Miserables.

After six dramatic episodes and several decades of on-screen struggle, Andrew Davies' masterful new adaptation of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables has ended. In a special episode of MASTERPIECE Studio, we hear from Davies and series stars Dominic West and David Oyelowo about how it felt to bring the story of Jean Valjean and Javert to a close.

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1:07.1	by the love of his adopted daughter and her new husband.
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1:45.1	And we spoke to series lead actors Dominic West and David O'Yelloo about the challenges they
1:50.0	faced in bringing the story to a close.
1:52.4	It was a bloody nightmare. It was a very tough scene. It was a very tough scene to do. It's one of those scenes you read in a script and you go, oh boy, okay. When are we doing that?
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2:09.2	lengthy novel in a neat six episodes.
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