Jane Austen at 250
4/23/20261 hr
Host Meg Wolitzercelebrates Jane Austen’s 250th with works by, and inspired by, the enduring romance novelist. Ann Harada performs an early Austen piece, “Edgar and Emma;” Sophie Carmen-Jones reads a letter from Austen to a mentor, James Stanier Clarke. Then things get playful in the T.C. Boyle parody “I Dated Jane Austen,” performed by Wyatt Cenac. And Hugh Dancy reads from an Austen classic, “Persuasion.”
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[jazzy music] We've all been introduced at school, at the movies, or by accident to a world as far from our own as seems possible. Carriages, bonnets, large estates. A lot of this is the doing of Jane Austen, the irresistible author of works including Pride and Prejudice. But there's also a reason why she's not only a great read, but a proto-feminist, and we're about to show you why. Have a cup of tea and stay with me, Meg Wolitzer.