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"Jane Austen" (64 results)
Jane Austen Appreciation Society of Pakistan meet at the Dorchester to promote their book Austenistan.
An item on a Jane Austen unfinished manuscript which sold for just under one million pounds - continuing proof of a stron...
English novelist Jane Austen introduces the Love Island villa to the rules of Georgian courtship, much to personal...
Through letters to her niece, novelist Fay Weldon illuminates the life and work...
Lucy Worsley explores the different houses in which Jane Austen lived and stayed, to discover just how much they shaped Jane's life and novels.
Program celebrating the birth of the author Jane Austen, who was born 200 years ago on the 16th December 1775. With readings by Joanna Davi...
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen is 200 years old, but the story still resonates. Why?
At 17, Jane Austen is growing up in a small English village. She starts to write stories, culminating in Pride and Prejudice.
Greg Jenner is joined in Regency England by historian Dr Lucy Worsley and actor Sally Phillips to ...
Anne McElvoy presents a Landmark edition examining Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
A discussion of Jane Austen's style of novel writing.
Literary entertainment prog pres by Robert Robinson and Vicky Payne. An item on Jane Austen is included.
Discussion of Austen's works with writers, academics and experts. Includes references to TV adaptations.
Tim Harford explains the numbers and statistics in the news and in life.
Documentary following Jane Austen's modern-day superfans as they reveal what a vicar's daughter from Hampshire means to them.
Can Jas draw Lizzie from her fantasy world and convince her to seek the help she needs, or will the pull of Austenland be too po...
Jas deals with a patient suffering from selective mutism, who would rather live in her Austen-inspired fantasy world than face r...
Drama based on the life and letters of Jane Austen. Approaching her fortieth birthday, Jane appears happily unmarried, displaying all the assured wit and...
A letter arrives at Chawton Cottage, where Cassandra Austen has lived alone for many years since the death of her sister Jane.
Dramatised biography of the young Jane Austen, chronicling her romance with a young Irishman and how the experience came to have an influence on her wri...
Lucy Worsley investigates Georgian Assembly Rooms, which played an important role in Jane Austen's novels.
Lucy Worsley explains how marriage and money drives the plot of Jane Aus...
Lucy Worsley discusses Jane Austen's final novel 'Persuasion'.
A parody of Regency era ball etiquette in Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice'.
Four-part adaptation of the Jane Austen classic. Emma Woodhouse persuades new friend Harriet Smith that she is too good for her suitor, the farmer Robert Martin.
First of six of this dramatisation of the classic novel by Jane Austen. Fanny Price (Sylvestra Le Touzel) is removed from her impoverished Portsmouth h...
Discussing Pride and Prejudice, it's story, characters and language, and how it was adapted for television while remaining faithful ...
Sanditon: the novel Jane Austen never managed to finish before her death in 1817 - 'Sanditon' was finally published 100 years later and now it's bee...
A discussion of the various character archetypes Jane Austen has employed in 'Pride and...
A discussion of how Jane Austen structured the plot of 'Pride and Prejudice'.
Five-part television series adapted from Jane Austen's classic novel. When Mr Bingley comes to live in the neighbourhood, Mrs Bennet considers him...
Jane Austen's classic story of a young girl whose head is full of romantic and melodramatic notions about the world.
Film adaption of Jane Austen's novel about the enduring power of love. England 1814. Having been ''persuaded'' several years earlier to reject the prop...
Dramatisation of Jane Austen's novel. Mrs Dashwood is devastated when her husband dies. His estate and fortunate are bequeathed by law to his so...
Literary entertainment prog pres by Robert Robinson and Diana Quick. Includes an item about Jane Austen's Emma.
Documentary exploring the enduring appeal of Jane Austen's classic mixture of romance, wit and scathing social satire.
Andrew Davies discusses how he turned Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice into the costume drama series that had a whole nat...
Mariella Frostrup marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of Jane Austen's most universally popular ...
Academic Mona Siddiqui explores her affection for Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, explaining how it spoke over t...
An introduction to Jane Austen's first novel Northanger Abbey, and how it played with Gothic tropes.
An introduction to the context and reception of Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice'.
An introduction to the historical background and setting of Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice'
David hopes to impress his bride-to-be Lucy by arranging a wedding based on her favourite book, Pride and Prejudice, desp...
Lucy Worsley discusses the historical context of strategic marriage in Georgian Britain.
Discussion about Sense and Sensibility, the story, character and themes, and how the story was adapted for film ...
Earliest existing BBC dramatisation of Emma (from 1972).
Earliest existing BBC dramatisation of Pride and Prejudice.
Dramatised for radio in six parts by Denis Constanduros.
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