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Emma Thompson, Tamsin Greig, Kate Atkinson, Adjoa Andoh, Anna Maxwell-Martin and a number of well-known Jane Austen followers characteristic within the Jane Austen assortment, accessible on BBC Sounds from sixth December, bringing collectively highlights of the BBC’s Austen programming – together with all six of Austen’s main novels.
This December, BBC Radio 4 and 4Extra will mark the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s start with a season of programming celebrating the life, legacy, and literary brilliance of considered one of Britain’s most beloved authors – together with a special occasion of programming on Radio 4 on the sixteenth December, celebrating Austen’s birthday.
An entire assortment of Austen’s six main novels, tailored for audio drama – Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Mansfield Park, Persuasion, and Northanger Abbey – will likely be broadcast throughout Radio 4 and 4Extra, and introduced collectively as a part of a devoted Jane Austen assortment on BBC Sounds, launched on sixth December. The assortment additionally options Austen’s juvenilia and a wealthy array of factual programming exploring her enduring cultural influence.
Two newly commissioned dramas – Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility – bookend the season on Radio 4, with Tamsin Greig narrating as Jane Austen herself. These recent variations, dramatised by Rachel Joyce and Claudine Toutoungi, supply a brand new tackle Austen’s themes of affection, heartbreak, and sisterhood.
Austen followers can even sit up for a ten-part factual collection, When I Met Jane Austen, offered by Austen biographer Dr Paula Byrne, who’s joined by a stellar line-up of friends together with David Baddiel, Katherine Rundell, Val McDermid, Kate Atkinson, Andrew Davies, Amy Heckerling, Gurinder Chadha, Marlon James, Colm Tóibín and Philippa Perry. Each episode explores how Austen’s work has formed and impressed their lives and artistic journeys.
There may also be a particular version of Bookclub, that includes Emma Thompson, who displays on her adaptation of Sense and Sensibility and discusses why Austen’s writing continues to resonate with readers and audiences immediately.
Plus, there will likely be an opportunity to listen to the Radio 4 continuity announcers such as you’ve by no means heard them earlier than, as they be a part of within the celebrations marking Jane Austen’s birthday on sixteenth December.
Radio 4Extra can pay tribute to Austen by rebroadcasting highlights of Radio 4 programming from the previous forty years.
There can also be a choice of Jane Austen-themed TV programmes accessible on BBC iPlayer, together with variations of her novels and Jane Austen: Rise of a Genius, a 3-part documentary exploring the shocking life and lasting influence of the groundbreaking creator with the assistance of consultants, modern novelists, and actors who’ve portrayed Austen’s characters. Plus, Bafta and Olivier Award-winning actor Monica Dolan will give a fascinating studying of Jane Austen’s a lot beloved and final accomplished novel, Persuasion, in The Read, broadcast in December on BBC Four and iPlayer. All episodes of Miss Austen can be found now on BBC iPlayer and a brand new ten-part drama The Other Bennet Sister primarily based on the hit novel of the identical identify by Janice Hadlow has been introduced.
Matthew Dodd, Commissioning Editor for Arts, BBC Radio 4, says: “Jane Austen’s work continues to delight audiences 250 years after she was born. We’re thrilled to bring together such a rich and varied collection across Radio 4 and 4Extra, and to showcase the many ways Austen’s voice still resonates today.”
Alison Hindell, Commissioning Editor for Drama and Fiction, BBC Radio 4, says: “Jane Austen’s novels are timeless, and this anniversary gave us the perfect opportunity to revisit them with fresh eyes. It’s a joy to celebrate Austen’s enduring, global power as a storyteller.”
Full programme data for Jane Austen season:
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The BBC Sounds assortment will embody the next programmes which have already been broadcast throughout the anniversary yr.
Dramatised by Clara Glynn. Austen’s early novel is a coming-of-age narrative and a satire on the 1790s vogue for the sensationalist Gothic novel.
Seventeen yr previous Catherine Morland is invited to Bath by a wealthy neighbour. Entering the modern society of town, Catherine finds excessive drama and peril in each encounter and in each occasion – typically with comedian outcomes. And then she receives a unprecedented, and thrilling, invitation.
Catherine Morland ….. Madeleine Gray
Henry Tilney ….. Will Howard
Isabella Thorpe ….. Cecilia Appiah
Mrs Allen ….. Ella Smith
General Tilney ….. John Heffernan
Eleanor Tilney ….. Scarlett Courtney
Mrs Morland/Mrs Thorpe ….. Jasmine Hyde
John Thorpe ….. Josh Bryant-Jones
James Morland/Captain Tilney ….. Django Bevan
Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane
Sound by Keith Graham and Sam Dickinson
Production Coordinator – Bethany Woodhead
Northanger Abbey was Jane Austen’s first guide, though it wasn’t revealed till after her demise. It tells the story of Catherine Morland, an impressionable younger girl who’s launched to modern society when she’s taken by a rich neighbour to Bath. There, Catherine’s creativeness catches hearth when she’s initiated into the thrills of Gothic fiction by new good friend, Isabella Thorpe – a reasonably, charming however devious gold digger.
Another nice reader of Gothic novels is ‘not quite handsome but very near it’ Henry Tilney, whom Catherine finds enchanting. When Henry invitations Catherine to remain at Northanger Abbey, the house of his father, General Tilney, she imagines secret passages, haunted catacombs and an evil secret. Catherine does certainly discover one thing depraved on the Abbey however not in the best way she expects.
In this primary of two episodes John Yorke explores the twin nature of the guide – half satire on Gothic fiction and half celebration of the novel kind.
Reader: Esme Scarborough
Production Hub Coordinators: Nina Semple and Dawn Williams
Researcher: Henry Tydeman
Sound: Iain Hunter
Producer: Kate McAll
Executive Producer: Sara Davies
A Pier manufacturing for BBC Radio 4
A brand new adaptation of Horace Walpole’s gothic novel, extensively recognised as being the godfather of contemporary horror.
The adaptation by Katherine Tozer with specifically composed music by John Chambers embraces the lurid nature of the unique textual content, evoking a fever dream actuality designed to conjure an expertise that’s each eerie and disturbing.
Set in Medieval Italy, Manfred is the despotic ruler of Otranto. Defying the curse that foretells his downfall he prepares to make use of no matter means vital to carry onto energy.
Manfred ….. Sandy Grierson
Hippolyta ….. Emily Bruni
Mathilda ….. Kitty Archer
Isabella ….. Cecilia Appiah
Bianca ….. Bethany Muir
Theodore ….. Jake Kenny-Bryne
Father Jerome ….. Arthur Hughes
Frederic ….. Justin Salinger
Directed by Tracey Neale
Produced by Gemma Jenkins
Production Co-ordinator: Maggie Olgiati
A BBC Studios manufacturing for BBC Radio 4.
When Horace Walpole revealed The Castle of Otranto in 1764, novels as a kind have been nonetheless of their infancy. Many tended to be long-winded works, instructing readers on find out how to reside an ethical life.
With this brief and fast-paced rollercoaster of a guide, Walpole blew that concept out of the water, introducing his viewers to a very new type of fiction, that includes supernatural happenings, suspense, and a younger girl fleeing an evil villain down a darkish hall with a candle that blows out on the very important second – all the weather of what we now name Gothic fiction.
Prompting each an ethical panic and a rush on gross sales, The Castle of Otranto would show inspirational to many future writers, together with Mary Shelley, creator of Frankenstein, and Jane Austen, who would each parody and have fun the Gothic in her novel Northanger Abbey.
Presented by John Yorke.
Contributor: Emma Clery, Professor of English Literature on the Uppsala University, Sweden. Editor of The Castle of Otranto (1996), and creator of The Rise of Supernatural Fiction, 1762 -1800
Reader: Paul Dodgson
Production Hub Coordinator: Nina Semple
Researcher: Henry Tydeman
Sound: Iain Hunter
Producer: Kate McAll
Executive Producer: Sara Davies
A Pier manufacturing for BBC Radio 4
Greg Jenner is joined in Regency England by historian Dr Lucy Worsley and actor Sally Phillips to study all in regards to the life and works of literary legend Jane Austen.
This episode explores her youth because the daughter of a rural clergyman, takes a peek contained in the books a teenage Jane was studying, and delves into her romantic and familial relationships to see what formed Austen into the formidable literary expertise she was. It additionally asks a key query: was Jane Austen, who wrote such great ladies characters, a feminist?
Coming quickly: Persuasion drops 6 December as a part of the Jane Austen assortment on BBC Sounds
Jane Austen’s last-completed novel is a transferring, witty story of missed alternatives and second probabilities, recorded in full as a brand-new audiobook, learn by Jasmine Hyde.
Anne Elliot final noticed Frederick Wentworth eight years in the past, when she broke off their engagement. All as a result of her household had persuaded her that he wasn’t adequate for her.
Now he’s a celebrated naval captain: wealthy, profitable, a catch. Anne – twenty-seven, not married, along with her household now in debt – all of the sudden finds their paths crossing once more.
Has an excessive amount of time handed, or can their emotions be rekindled?
Producer – Fay Lomas
Sound engineer – Rhys Morris
Made by BBC Audio, Wales for BBC Radio 4.
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Jane Austen’s novel, Northanger Abbey, was the primary full guide she wrote. She was in her early twenties on the time and it was accepted by a writer however the novel wasn’t revealed in her lifetime. In this second episode, John Yorke appears on the story behind the genesis of Northanger Abbey – how a younger girl with solely three years of formal schooling got here to put in writing such an achieved work, what prompted her to put in writing a satire of Gothic fiction, and why the guide can also be a hymn of reward to the novel kind itself.
Jane could not have spent a lot time in class however her voracious love of studying, her prodigious reminiscence and understanding of different writers’ methods meant that she was entertaining the household along with her personal tales and performs from an early age. After leaving faculty at 11, her actual schooling started – self-education. With the encouragement of her father, the supply of subscription libraries which made studying potential for all purses, and quite a lot of writing observe, she would grow to be considered one of Britain’s most interesting writers.
Sadly, her story can also be considered one of disappointment and neglect. Despite the writer’s promise, Jane’s novel, completed when she was 24, must languish for practically 20 years earlier than it lastly noticed the sunshine of day, six months after her demise.
Dramatised by Clara Glynn. Having spent some weeks in Bath, Catherine has acquired an invite from the Tilneys to remain at their residence, Northanger Abbey. In the halls and corridors of this historic constructing and fuelled by her love of the Gothic novel, Catherine’s creativeness runs riot.
Catherine Morland ….. Madeleine Gray
Henry Tilney ….. Will Howard
Eleanor Tilney ….. Scarlett Courtney General Tilney ….. John Heffernan
Isabella Thorpe ….. Cecilia Appiah Mrs Morland ….. Jasmine Hyde
James Morland/Captain Tilney ….. Django Bevan
Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane
Sound by Keith Graham and Sam Dickinson
Production Coordinator – Bethany Woodhead
Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’ has not solely captured the hearts of generations of readers, it additionally helped change the best way that novels are written. This most beloved story of Regency romance, that includes the brilliantly quick-witted Elizabeth Bennett and the haughty determine of Fitzwilliam Darcy, permits us into its characters’ heads and hearts in newly refined ways in which set the template for a lot of the fiction that adopted. In this, the primary of two elements specializing in Austen’s hottest novel, John Yorke examines how a guide she described as ‘too light, and bright, and sparkling’ retains a particular place and a particular significance within the historical past of English literature.
The programme options main Austen professional John Mullen, professor of English Literature at UCL, and Dr. Lucy Powell, lecturer in English on the University of Oxford.
Presented by John Yorke.
Contributor: John Mullen, professor of English Literature at UCL
Sound: Sean Kerwin
Researcher: Henry Tydeman
Production Hub Coordinator: Dawn Williams
Producer: Geoff Bird
Reader: Rhiannon Neads
Executive Producer: Caroline Raphael
A Pier manufacturing for BBC Radio
Radio 4 celebrates 250 years of Jane Austen with recent, humorous, and female-focused variations of Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. Expect heartbreak, love, hilarity, and the enduring energy of sisterhood.
Both dramas are narrated by Tamsin Grieg as Austen herself. Pride and Prejudice is the enduring love story between Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy, and a pleasant portrayal of a household. It completely conjures up the interval, and the stress on ladies to seek out husbands. It’s a tapestry of unforgettable characters and splendidly humorous.
Pride and Prejudice stars Tamsin Grieg (Friday Night Dinner, Green Wing and Episodes) as narrator Jane Austen; Isabella Laughland (The Road Trip) as Elizabeth Bennet; Luke Thompson (Bridgerton and A Little Life); Miles Jupp (Rev, The Durrells) as Mr Bennet; Rosie Cavaliero as Mrs Bennet (Power of Parker); Lucy Doyle as Jane (The Mousetrap) Louis Landau as Mr Bingley (Butterfly, Rivals); Toby Regbo as Mr Wickham (Outrageous); Adjoa Andoh as Lady Catherine (Bridgerton); Kitty O’Sullivan as Lydia (Our Man in Havana); and Gaia Wise as Kitty (Dead of Winter.)
And with:
Imogen Front as Mary and Georgiana,
Josh Bryant Jones as Mr Collins,
Sasha McCabe as Charlotte Lucas,
Catherine Bailey as Caroline Bingley,
Jasmine Hyde as Mrs Gardiner,
Clive Hayward as Mr Gardiner,
And Sarah Thom as Mrs Reynolds.
Dramatised by Rachel JoyceDirected by Tracey Neale
Sound by Andrew Garratt and Sam Dickinson
Production Co-Ordinator, Luke MacGregor
A BBC Studios Production.
The opening strains of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ aren’t solely among the many most well-known in all of literature, additionally they place marriage entrance and centre as the important thing theme throughout the novel. “It is a truth universally acknowledged,” Austen writes, “that any man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” So most of the characters and their actions are pushed by the seek for marriage – however their motivations and aspirations are each richly assorted and illuminating of Regency society at a time when ladies may discover safety and standing primarily on the altar. John Yorke asks whether or not Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. Darcy, two of probably the most illustrious and quick-witted companions in literary historical past, can discover a love that transcends the strictures of the time.
The programme options Dr Lucy Powell, lecturer in English on the University of Oxford, and Professor John Mullan from University College London.
Rachel Joyce’s recent, humorous and heartfelt adaptation of Pride and Prejudice continues – a celebration of affection, wit and the enduring energy of sisterhood.
Austen biographer and author Dr Paula Byrne is joined by distinguished thinkers, writers, administrators who inform her about their encounters with the well-known creator. Each of her friends has been formed, modified, and impressed by Jane Austen. Paula has been pondering and writing about Austen for the very best a part of thirty years and her friends’ experiences will encourage her personal reflections, drawn from the locations that held particular which means for Austen.
Presenter: Dr Paula Byrne
Reader: Gemma Whelan
Producer: Camellia Sinclair
To mark Jane Austen’s birthday, Woman’s Hour will likely be taking a look at why Austen’s clever and witty writing stays so relatable for girls immediately. Nuala McGovern hears why the subjects Austen addresses, and her sharp observations on ladies’s lives and society, nonetheless resonate.
Presented by Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode. Screenshot delves into a few of the many movies and TV programmes which have been tailored from or impressed by Jane Austen’s novels and tales, together with the enduring BBC TV variations of Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion within the 90s by means of to Bridget Jones and Clueless.
Interviewees embody:
• Celine Song – acclaimed director of Past Lives (2023) Song has acknowledged Jane Austen to be a favorite creator and her newest movie the rom com ‘Materialists’ from earlier this year is heavily influenced by Austen’s model and characterisation.
• Lillian Crawford – the critic and movie journalist will assessment the historical past of Austen in movies and TV – there have been many a whole lot of variations – Crawford will select the very best and a few of the weirdest like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies from 2016.
• Amy Heckerling – director of Clueless – one of many funniest and most profitable Austen impressed motion pictures from 1995. The takes the plot of Emma and transposes it to an American High faculty with hilarious outcomes.
Producer: Jane Long
A Prospect Street Production for BBC Radio 4.
Elizabeth Lewis’s drama from 2009, primarily based on letters from Jane Austen to her sister Cassandra, tells of the creator’s love for Tom Lefroy. Stars Andrew Scott, Jasmine Hyde and Penny Downie.
In this particular version of Bookclub, presenter James Naughtie is joined by the actor and screenwriter Emma Thompson who solutions readers’ questions on Austen’s first novel, Sense and Sensibility. Thompson tailored the guide for the display screen in 1995, and had a starring position as Elinor Dashwood, the character with probably the most sense, when in comparison with her sister Marianne, performed by Kate Winslet. The movie received Emma Thompson an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay, making her the one individual in historical past to win Academy Awards for each performing and writing. During this recording in Broadcasting House, London, the actress talks in regards to the narrative decisions she needed to make whereas turning the guide into a movie, what she loves in regards to the story, Austen’s acute observations, and why the novel continues to be related immediately. When Sense and Sensibility was first revealed again in 1811 it was achieved so anonymously. On its title web page it merely acknowledged that it was a narrative written ‘By A Lady’.
Front Row explores Austen’s brilliance as a author — her sharp wit, elegant prose, gripping storylines and the facility of her social commentary. Samira Ahmed is joined by a panel of acclaimed authors and main Austen students to debate her literary craft, her affect on subsequent writers within the nineteenth Century, and why her work nonetheless resonates with readers immediately.
No ‘picnics and tea parties’ right here, simply the ‘chink of cash in every paragraph’. Sense and Sensibility is sharply humorous and shot by means of with darkness, exposing social cruelty throughout the confines of inflexible 18th society.
John Yorke considers Jane Austen’s obsession with cash within the novel, the genius of its dialogue, and Austen’s most good innovation: a means of perceiving the character’s inner world by means of the narrative voice. He’ll uncover why Jane Austen’s work is so reinvent-able for each age, tradition and platform, and significantly for now.
Including friends Professor John Mullan, author Claudine Toutoungi, and reader Rhiannon Neads.
Producer: Mary Ward-Lowery.
Sense and Sensibility is a story of two sisters with wildly completely different hearts: one dominated by motive, the opposite by ardour. But when love, loss, and scandal strike, Elinor and Marianne will study that heartbreak is finest confronted collectively.
Sense and Sensibility stars Tamsin Greig (Friday Night Dinner, Green Wing) as narrator Jane Austen; Madeleine Mantock as Elinor (Charmed, The Long Song); Rose Basista (Trigger Point) as Marianne, Ben Hardy (Bohemian Rhapsody) as John Willoughby; Enyi Okoronkwo (Renegade Nell) as Edward Ferrars; Richard Goulding (The Windsors, Wicked Little Letters) as Colonel Brandon; Jasmine Hyde as Mrs Dashwood, Ava Talbot as Margaret Dashwood; Carolyn Pickles as Mrs Jennings; Clive Hayward as Sir John; Bethan Rose Young as Lucy Steele; Django Bevan as John Dashwood; Sasha McCabe as Fanny Dashwood.
Dramatised by Claudine Toutoungi
Directed by Anne Isger
Sound by Andy Garratt, Neva Missirian and Sam Dickinson
Production co-ordination by Kate Gray
A BBC Studios Production
John Yorke continues his exploration of Austen’s obsession with cash within the novel, the genius of its dialogue, and Austen’s most good innovation: a means of perceiving the character’s inner world by means of the narrative voice. He’ll uncover why Jane Austen’s work is so reinvent-able for each age, tradition and platform, and significantly for now.
Marianne and Elinor are taking a visit to London. Marianne is determined to see Willoughby after his abrupt departure from Barton. Elinor has found the devastating information of Edward’s engagement to Lucy Steele however is decided to maintain the key.
New to 4 Extra. Fay Weldon reads her personal letters to a younger pupil relative, making a powerful and witty case for the enduring worth of the classics of English literature.
Omnibus of 5 elements abridged by Shelley Bovey
Producer: Alec Reid
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1991.
New to 4 Extra. In Jane Austen’s little recognized, very early work (not revealed till 1871), Harriet Walter stars as Lady Susan, Maggie Steed as Mrs Johnson and Imelda Staunton as Mrs Vernon.
Lady Susan Vernon is a lovely society widow however each manipulative and scheming. She is in search of a husband for herself and her shy and awkward daughter, whereas engaged in an affair with a married man.
Who will win the guts of the wealthy and good-looking Reginald De Courcy? And will the reality about Lady Susan ever come out? These are the questions a teenaged Jane Austen posed on this early epistolary novella, revealed lengthy after her demise – the primary of her many clever and witty research of affection and marriage, and the video games individuals play.
In episode one, when Lady Susan decides to go to her brother-in-law, will she be a welcome visitor? Her pricey good friend Alicia Johnson narrates her story.
With Jill Balcon and Geoffrey Whitehead.
Adapted by Lavinia Murray
Music by Julie Cooper
Directed by Jocelyn Boxall
Produced by Jeremy Mortimer
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999.
New to 4 Extra. “A gentleman visiting Winchester Cathedral desired to be shown Miss Austen’s grave. The verger, as he pointed it out, asked, ‘Pray, sir, can you tell me whether there was anything particular about that lady; so many people want to know where she is buried”.
James Edward Austen-Leigh was Jane Austen ‘s nephew. The youngest mourner at her funeral in 1817, he was later to publish a memoir of his aunt. Published in 1869, it’s the solely account we’ve written by somebody who truly knew her.
Derek Parker presents 4 programmes primarily based on the guide.
With Paul Rogers as James Austen-Leigh and Joanna David as Jane Austen.
Producer: John Knight
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999.
Eve Best stars as Emma and Robert Bathurst as Mr Knightley in Jane Austen’s glowing comedy of affection and marriage first revealed in 1815.
Emma Woodhouse, good-looking, intelligent and wealthy, a younger girl so blessed by life that she declares she’s going to by no means marry. However, she is decided to seek out the proper match for her new good friend Harriet Smith.
With Patience Tomlinson, Andrew Wincott and Tom Hollander.
Dramatised in two elements by April de Angelis.
Music by Martin Souter and Sarah Stowe
Directed by Jonquil Panting
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2000.
Juliet Stevenson stars because the quiet and perceptive Anne Elliot and Sorcha Cusack is Jane Austen in Jane Austen’s story of affection, remorse and social standing.
It’s 1814 within the village of Uppercross in Somersetshire. Sir Walter Elliot of Kellynch Hall has lengthy since given up any hope of his daughter making a beneficial marriage.
Eight years in the past, younger Anne rejected a proposal from Frederick Wentworth, a good-looking however poor naval officer. Now her former love has returned. Anne was persuaded to present him up – and he isn’t forgiven her.
First revealed in 1817, Jane Austen’s novel is dramatised in three elements by Michelene Wandor.
With Tim Brierley, Roger Hume and Claire Faulconbridge.
Square piano (William Rolfe and Sons c 1810) performed by Kenneth Mobbs
Directed at BBC Pebble Mill by Vanessa Whitburn.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1986
New to 4 Extra. Starring Susannah Harker in a portrait of the household, social {and professional} world of Jane Austen, as seen by means of her letters and novels.
Jane discusses the artwork of shopping for gloves and speculates on the standard of meals markets in Sweden. Meanwhile, Pride and Prejudice is about to be revealed and he or she writes to her sister Cassandra with the information.
With Oona Beeson, David Holt and Annabelle Dowler.
Devised in 5 elements by Vanessa Rosenthal.
Director Peter Leslie Wild
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2000.
Jane Austen’s surprisingly uncared for however delightfully precocious and revealing early works celebrated by Austen professional Janet Todd with the assistance of the author and illustrator Posy Simmonds and the actor Anna Maxwell Martin.
Considering how incessantly Jane Austen’s six nice novels are tailored for movie, radio and tv, it’s maybe shocking that the three small train books containing twenty two little tales and performs written throughout her teen years haven’t acquired extra discover. Some of those tales – with titles resembling “The Adventures of Mr Harley”, “The Generous Curate” and “The Beautiful Cassandra” – are only some strains lengthy however others run to many pages and supply each leisure and shocking insights into the event of the mature author.
Austen professional Janet Todd leafs by means of two of the dear volumes that are held on the British Library in London and discusses their splendidly uninhibited model and content material with the author and illustrator Posy Simmonds who has lengthy been a fan of Austen and fascinated by juvenilia generally. It is nicely documented that, throughout her lifetime, the grownup Jane Austen used to learn from these books to her shut household. For this programme, the actor Anna Maxwell Martin reads intensive extracts from three tales – “Frederick and Elfrida”, “Henry and Eliza” and “love and Freindship” (sic) to reanimate them for a recent radio viewers.
Producer Beaty Rubens
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2010.
A uncommon probability to re-listen. Felicity Jones stars as Fanny, with Benedict Cumberbatch as Edmund and David Tennant as Sir Thomas Bertram.
In Jane Austen’s basic story, first revealed in 1814, unlikely heroine Fanny Price is plucked from her impoverished household and introduced up by her rich kin at Mansfield Park.
With Tim Pigott-Smith, Amanda Root and Julia McKenzie.
Produced by Sally Avens
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003.
New to 4 Extra. Victoria Hamilton stars as Laura and David Tennant as Edward in Jane Austen’s unconstrained comedy of youthful rebel, love at first sight, door-slamming, theft, elopement and demise, written when the novelist was solely 14.
Two younger heroines substitute the quivering feelings of sensibility for frequent sense on this exuberant parody of the sentimental and romantic novels of the day. It’s really Jane Austen as you have by no means heard her earlier than.
With Janet Jefferies and David Horovitch
Dramatised by Robin Brooks
Produced by Fiona McAlpine
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002.
250 years because the start of Jane Austen, movie critic Antonia Quirke meets 5 fashionable composers who’ve scored authentic music for Austen variations or Austen-influenced movies. The composers focus on the musical decisions when underscoring key scenes and moments, in addition to the music that Austen herself loved. The collection consists of discussions with Rachel Portman (Emma), Adrian Johnston (Becoming Jane), Jeremy Sams (Persuasion), Ruth Barrett (Sanditon) and Fernando Velázquez (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies).
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