“It’s got a kind of obvious contemporary relevance,” said Davies during a preview screening of the BBC One drama in London.
With the BBC keen to ensure more diverse cast and crew are used, Les Misérables has colour-blind casting and features the Silent Witness actor Liz Carr, who is disabled.
Les Miséables starts on BBC One on 30 December.
With social unrest brewing in France and Emmanuel Macron accused by protesters of being the “president of the rich”, the BBC is to air an adaptation of Victor Hugo’s historical novel Les Misérables, which the writer Andrew Davies says has been given a timely “contemporary relevance” by the injustices and divisions within society today.