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Author: Paula Byrne
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Author Paula Byrne
Narrator Antonia Beamish
Duration 11h 45m
A radical look at Jane Austen As you've never seen her – as a lover of farce, comic theatre and juvenilia. The Genius of Jane Austen celebrates Britain's favourite novelist 200 years after her death and explores why her books make such awesome movies, time after time. Jane Austen loved the theatre. She learned much of her art from a long trad...
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The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym
Author: Paula Byrne
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Author Paula Byrne
Narrator Antonia Beamish
Duration 17h 6m
'Captures both Barbara and her writing so miraculously' JILLY COOPER Picked as a Book to Look Forward to in 2021 by the Guardian, The Times and the Observer A Radio 4 Book of the Week, April 2021 Barbara Pym became beloved as one of the wittiest novelists of the late twentieth century, revealing the inner workings of domestic life so brilliantly th...
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Author: Paula Byrne
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Author Paula Byrne
Narrator Maggie Mash
Duration 6h 20m
This is the story of Dido Belle, whose adoption by an aristocratic family challenged the conventions of 18th century England Dido Belle was the illegitimate, mixed-race daughter of a Royal Navy captain and a slave woman, adopted by the Earl of Mansfield. As Lord Chief Justice of England he would preside over the drowning of 142 slaves by a shipping...
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