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| All At Sea | ...In JANE AUSTEN's day it was said that every family in Britain had a relative at sea. Today the Merchant and Royal navies have shrunk and we live in an age of "sea blindness". As the "Year of the Sea" begins, the nation has never been less realistically aware of her island status and of the curious, dislocated lives of her seafarers.... |
| Anthology | ...Jenni Murray presents an anthology of prose to celebrate the best of classic and contemporary literature, from Shakespeare to A A Milne and Ben Okri to JANE AUSTEN. The readings are performed by stars of stage, screen and radio, including Ronald Pickup, Hannah Gordon, Penelope Keith and Meera Syal.... |
| Closed Door, The | ...Series of stories by Dorothy Whipple, an often overlooked writer of the interwar years who was described by JB Priestley as 'the JANE AUSTEN of her age'.... |
| Cooking The Books | ...JANE AUSTEN... |
| Cover Stories | ...Series about four major books and their impact on people's lives. 1: `Pride and Prejudice'. Fay Weldon, P D James and Claire Tomalin discuss JANE AUSTEN's masterpiece.... |
| Cutting A Dash | ...... |
| Darwin's Children | ...Writers explore some of the diverse fields to which Darwin's theories have been applied. English professor Jonathan Gottschall describes the application of evolutionary analysis to literary interpretation, from the late bronze age of Homer's Mycenae to JANE AUSTEN's regency. What can a biological evolutionary analysis of stories and story-telling teach us about the nature of humanity?... |
| Emma | ...April De Angelis' two-part adaptation of JANE AUSTEN's comedy of love and marriage.... |
| From Jersey With Love Gala Concert Jersey | ...Ann finds out why the author of Not Married, Not Bothered, Carol Clewlow, believes that even today JANE AUSTEN is capable of being a 'spinster heroine' and why many women seem to loathe the word 'spinster'. She also asks whether Carrie Bradshaw and Bridget Jones have as much to offer us as Barbara Pym's 'excellent women' of the 1950s and 60s.... |
| Guide To Accomplishment, A | ...Concentrating on the novels of JANE AUSTEN, Fiona Talkington and Dr Jeanice Brooks of Southampton University present an insight into the world of the amateur musician in the late 18th century, looking at society's attitudes to them and the notion of female 'accomplishment'.... |
| Interval - First Words | ...Chris de Souza explores authors' early writings. / During the four intervals in this Proms Millennium Youth Day, Chris de Souza explores a wealth of early writings, including those of JANE AUSTEN, Anne Frank, Evelyn Waugh and Ted Hughes, and a dramatic adaptation of `The Young Visitors' by nine-year-old Daisy Ashford - a witty tale of life, love and manners in late Victorian ENGLAND.... |
| Jane And Tom - The Real Pride And Prejudice | ...Elizabeth Lewis's dramatisation, based on letters sent by JANE AUSTEN to her sister Cassandra, tells the story of the author's love for the young Irishman Tom Lefroy.... |
| Jane's Fame | ...Alice Krige reads from Claire Harman's exploration of JANE AUSTEN's rise to pre-eminence from humble family scribblings to Hollywood movies.... |
| Kith And Kin | ...JANE AUSTEN's favourite of all her heroines was Fanny Price in Mansfield Park - a poor girl adopted by wealthy relatives to be half-servant, half-daughter. There was just such a girl in Jane's own life, and this is her story.... |
| Lady Susan | ...By JANE AUSTEN, adapted by Lavinia Murray. Lady Susan Vernon, a beautiful society widow, decides to visit her brother-in-law. Will she be a welcome guest? Her friend Alicia Johnson narrates her story. With Harriet Walter and Maggie Steed. Director Jocelyn Boxall (1/10).... |
| Love And Freindship | ...By JANE AUSTEN, adapted by Robin Brooks. Written when the great novelist was only 14, this exuberant parody of the novels of the day is a wild comedy of teenage rebellion.... |
| Mansfield Park [drama 1997] | ...Manners, decorum and simmering jealousy for young Fanny Price in the JANE AUSTEN classic.... |
| Mansfield Park [drama 2003] | ...... |
| Mansfield Park | ...Manners, decorum and simmering jealousy are all in store for young Fanny Price. JANE AUSTEN dramatisation with Hannah Gordon.... |
| Mary Mary [drama] | ...Mary Bennet, the third of the sisters in JANE AUSTEN's `Pride and Prejudice', tells a very different version of events in her journal.... |
| Material World, The | ...Quentin Cooper is joined by Dr Allan Chapman, historian of science at Oxford University who explore the life of this extraordinary, yet rarely heard of scientist and to find out why she has been described as being to science what JANE AUSTEN was to literature.... |
| Mel And Sue Thing, The | ...Comedy show with Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc, featuring the third part of JANE AUSTEN's lost novella `Sweet Fanny Adams' and the Queen's special tribute to Brian May ... |
| Minuet | ...By Harriet O'Carroll, starring Helen Mccrory as JANE AUSTEN. The story of the novelist JANE AUSTEN's real-life love affair with a romantic young Irishman which fuelled her desire to become a writer. With John Light, John Rowe, Paula Jacobs and Geraldine Fitzgerald. Director: Cherry Cookson ... |
| Music Feature | ...Concentrating on the novels of JANE AUSTEN, Fiona Talkington and Dr Jeanice Brooks of Southampton University present an insight into the world of the amateur musician in the late 18th century, looking at society's attitudes to them and the notion of female 'accomplishment'.... |
| New Bath Guide, The | ...Biographer Kathryn Hughes travels to Bath to discover more about poet Christopher Anstey, who was the toast of Bath in 1766 for his The New Bath Guide. It satirised the fashions and foibles of Bath society 30 years before JANE AUSTEN.... |
| No Ice In Weymouth | ...A portrait of the family, social and professional world of JANE AUSTEN, as seen through her letters and novels, devised by Vanessa Rosenthal. 1: Pride, Prejudice and Shopping. Jane discusses the art of buying gloves and speculates on the quality of food markets in Sweden. With Susannah Harker, Oona Beeson, David Holt and Ian Brooker. Directed by Peter Leslie Wild ... |
| Northanger Abbey [drama] | ...By: JANE AUSTEN... |
| Northanger Abbey | ...At the Tilneys' isolated gothic home, Catherine is terrified by ghoulish noises. JANE AUSTEN dramatisation with Julia Mckenzie.... |
| Open Book | ...With a book called Pride and Prejudice and Zombies becoming an unexpected bestseller, Mariella and her guests discuss JANE AUSTEN's continuing cultural significance. Claire Harman, the author of Jane's Fame: How JANE AUSTEN Conquered the World, and Deborah Moggach, who adapted Pride and Prejudice for the 2005 film starring Kiera Knightley, look at Austen's rediscovery in the 19th century and reinvention in the 20th.... |
| Our Kath | ...Lin Colghan's adaptation of JANE AUSTEN's classic novel. 5/10. It is 1939 and war has been declared. This frees Kath from her marriage, so her singing lessons increase and her voice is finally discovered. Kathleen Ferrier....Becky Hindley Winifred Ferrier....Shirley Dixon Young Win....Liza Sadovy Bert Wilson....Daniel Ryan William Ferrier....Alan Williams Dr Hutchinson....Stephen Critchlow Roy Henderson....Andrew Harrison.... |
| Outlook [world Service] | ...May and Bee's extraordinary journey has been turned into a book 'Talking About JANE AUSTEN in Baghdad', which will be published by Penguin in February.... |
| Persuasion [drama] | ...Anne Elliott meets her fiance Fredrick Wentworth again after eight years apart. JANE AUSTEN dramatisation with Juliet Stevenson.... |
| Persuasion [reading] | ...Juliet Stevenson reads JANE AUSTEN's romantic classic, the tale of Anne Elliot, prevented at the age of 19 from marrying the man she loves. Abridged by Doreen Estall... |
| Persuasion | ...Anne Elliott meets her fiance Fredrick Wentworth again after eight years apart. JANE AUSTEN dramatisation with Juliet Stevenson.... |
| Pride And Prejudice | ...Christina Calvit, JANE AUSTEN... |
| Private Passions | ...... |
| Proms Plus | ...As part of the festival's Victorian season, Matthew Sweet is joined by Roy Hattersley and Valentine Cunningham as they champion the Victorian novel in all its forms. From the elegance of JANE AUSTEN and the thrilling sensation novels of Wilkie Collins to the stately realism of George Eliot and the bleakness of Thomas Hardy, the Victorian novel is a treasure trove of literary riches.... |
| Ramblings | ...Jeremy Jessel walks from Steventon to Micheldever, Hampshire, in the company of forestry expert Professor Julian Evans and asks how the woodlands have changed since JANE AUSTEN trod this favourite route.... |
| Remains Of Foley And Mccoll, The | ...Foley and McColl investigate the art of subtlety by visiting a JANE AUSTEN book. From 2000... |
| Self-control | ...By Mary Brunton. Dramatised in ten parts by Gerda Stevenson. Romantic drama set in Perthshire and LONDON. Brunton was a Scottish novelist much admired by JANE AUSTEN, and Self-Control, first published in 1810, deals with similar scenes to Sense And Sensibility. Laura Montreville is loved by two men, a reckless libertine and a dignified but reserved landowner. In a world where polite society and sexual hypocrisy rub shoulders easily, can she choose wisely between passion and virtue?... |
| Sense And Sensibility | ...It's 1810 and a widow and her three daughters are forced to move to a Devon cottage. JANE AUSTEN dramatisation with Jane Leonard.... |
| Sound Stories | ...With Peggy Reynolds. 3: JANE AUSTEN. The author of `Pride and Prejudice' practised the piano every morning before breakfast. Her house in Chawton contains a library of music typical of her day, much of it transcribed in her own hand. Including excerpts from Koczwara: The Battle of Prague. Windsor Box and Fir Company. Piccinini: Overture `La buona figliuola'. Martin Souter (fortepiano). J C Bach: Trio in C, T317 No 2. Windsor Box and Fur Company. Haydn: Symphony No 94 in G (Surprise). Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra/Adam Fischer.... |
| Tercentenarians, The | ...The third of four programmes in which Trevor Baylis, inventor of the clockwork radio, goes behind the scenes of family firms which have been trading for over 300 years. Today he discovers a very British bank whose customers have included JANE AUSTEN and Samuel Pepys.... |
| Trollope On Austen | ...In this look at JANE AUSTEN, the writer Joanna Trollope shows how the jostling for partners, property and power which imbue Austen's novels are as much a result of her own biography as a reflection of her time. And she demonstrates that there is a much darker side to her favourite author than is usually acknowledged.... |
| War Against Cliche, The | ...Amis's idiosyncratic take on JANE AUSTEN's `Pride and Prejudice'. Read by Bill Nighy ... |
| With Great Pleasure | ...Dead Ringers star Jan Ravens presents her personal choice of favourite pieces of writing. Featuring extracts by Philip Larkin, Edwin Muir, JANE AUSTEN and Victoria Wood ... |
| Word Of Mouth | ...This special edition comes from America and features Seattle-based lexophile Anu Garg, a pundit poet known as Sparrow, a woman who has used a computer programme to study JANE AUSTEN's use of words, and the organiser of the annual Festival of Punning in Austin, Texas.... |
| Words And Music | ...A programme of words and music exploring the intensity of youth and its transience. Hattie Morahan and Sam West read poetry and prose by Wordsworth, Rimbaud, Dylan Thomas, Thom Gunn, AE Houseman, Evelyn Waugh, Sylvia Plath, JANE AUSTEN and Caroline Bird. The music includes Debussy, Schumann, Butterworth, Prokofiev, Thomas Morley, Britten and Bernstein.... |
| Write Stuff, The | ...JANE AUSTEN... |
| Writing Music | ...He enters the world of JANE AUSTEN's `Pride and Prejudice' with musician Derek McCulloch, actor Judith French and historical dance expert Madeleine Inglehearn to investigate Mr Darcy's observation that `a woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing and dancing'.... |