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Jane Austen: Theatre Lover and Hollywood Screenwriter

A radical look at Jane Austen as you’ve never seen her – as a lover of farce, comic theatre and juvenilia. Paula Byrne explores why Austen's books make such awesome movies.

A radical look at Jane Austen as you’ve never seen her – as a lover of farce, comic theatre and juvenilia. Paula Byrne celebrates Britain’s favourite novelist 200 years after her death and also explores why her books make such awesome movies, from Pride and Prejudice to Clueless. In conversation with Hannah McInnes at the Hay Festival 2017.

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57 minutes