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"Jane Austen" (40 results)
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.
Anne McElvoy presents a Landmark edition examining Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
Literary entertainment prog pres by Robert Robinson and Vicky Payne. An item on Jane Austen is included.
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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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.
Colin Firth stars as Mr Darcy in this iconic BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice by writer Andrew Davies. The arrival of the wealthy Mr Bingley ...
The earliest BBC dramatisation of Sense and Sensibility. Mrs Dash wood and her two daughters, Elinor and Marianne, are faced with the prospect o...
Tracey Childs plays 16-yr- old Marianne, with her passionate hunger for emotional experience and Irene Richard plays her sister Elinor, outwardl...
Wealthy Emma Woodhouse needs a new companion when her beloved governess Miss Taylor gets married. She settles on Harriet Smith, and becomes determined to make a ...
Fanny Price and her wealthy cousin Edmund seem a perfect match, but their lives on a country estate are complicated by the arrival of the glamorous Cra...
The arrival of wealthy bachelors in town causes an uproar when families with single daughters aggressively seek engagements, including the Bennet ...
Five sisters from an English family of landed gentry as they deal with issues of marriage, morality and misconceptions. Keira Knightley stars alon...
The social and cultural background to ''Pride and Prejudice'', explored through archive footage, readings and personal accounts.
Sebastian Faulks looks at how novelists from Jane Austen to Monica Ali have used snobs as their secret weapon. With contributions from Tim Lo...
Amanda Vickery and Alastair Sooke recreate a Regency ball, the social event at the heart of Pride and Prejudice, to mark the 200th anniver...
This episode recounts how the dramatisation of Pride & Prejudice, became an all time classic.
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