Podcasts About Jane Austen and the Regency Era
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You can listen to these podcasts about all aspects of Jane Austen and her world by clicking on the links or downloading them onto your MP3 player. To find audio files of Jane’s books, please click on the AV and E-text page.
- Juliet Stevenson, actress and voice artist discusses reading Jane Austen novels for books on tape, 8 minutes.
Jane’s novels are available for free on Librivox (Be aware that these public domain books are read by amateurs, not professional readers.)
- All novels
- Pride & Prejudice by a variety of readers
- Pride & Prejudice by Annie Coleman
- Mansfield Park
- Sense & Sensibility
- Persuasion
- Northanger Abbey
- Emma
Jane’s Novels Read by Professional Readers (Free)
- Jane Austen Season: Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, Abridged, from Learn Out Loud
- Persuasion, by Nikolle Doolin (Professional voice artist)
About Jane Austen and her Novels
- On Emma: Professor Beth Ritter-Guth (Transcript of her podcast)
- Why We Love Jane Austen: Penguin Classics On Air interviews Juliette Wells, 2009
- Jane Austen: A Rambling Fancy
- Jane Austen Dinner Parties
- Jane Austen: A Look Inside the Author’s Home
- Jane Austen Biography
- Jane Austen: Great Christian Novelist - a series of 9 podcasts
- Winchester: Jane Austen, BBC Learn English
- Plain Jane? What Jane Austen Really Looked Like
- Interview with Andrew Davies on NPR, 2008
- Interview with Marsha Huff on Becoming Jane, 2007
- Joan Klingel Ray: Jane Austen 101
- Janet Todd on Jane Austen, Podcast at AMG Vancouver, Scroll down to Janet Todd, RealPlayer
- The Life and Times of Jane Austen: Joan Klingel Ray-Dummies Podcast
- Book Cast: A Walk With Jane Austen, Interview with Author Lori Smith (Scroll down to find her name)
- CBC Podcast – Jane Mania, A trio of Jane Austen scholars discuss the author and her enduring popularity (50 minutes)
- Pride and Prejudice 2005: Interview with Director Joe Wright and Donald Sutherland
- Sydney Authors Writing Center: Interview with Susannah Fullerton, president of the Jane Austen Society Australia, has written two books about Jane Austen
- The Historical Context of Pride and Prejudice: Annotated edition of P&P, interview with author, David Shapard
- The Divine Jane: Reflections on Austen, 2009
- Fran Lebowits: Reflections on Austen, 2009
- Harriet Walter: Reflections on Austen, 2009
- Jane Austen’s Favorite Songs: BBC Podcast, 2010
- Interview with Susannah Fullerton, President of the Jane Austen Society of Australia, 2011
Arts and Letters and Movies
- Jane Austen: A Letter to Her Niece, read by Kate Reading
- Steve Bell on Gillray
- Pride and Prejudice: The Mid Morning Book Club
- Wright’s Pride & Prejudice at the Austen Society, NPR
- Variety Screening Series 2005: Interview with director JoeWright and Donald Sutherland about making Pride and Prejudice
- Interview With Lori Smith, Author of A Walk With Jane Austen
- Filming the Jane Austen Book Club, Interview with Robin Swicord, 2007, NPR
- Creative Screenwriting Magazine Interviews Robin Swicord about The Jane Austen Bookclub
- Laurie Viera Rigler on Google Book Groups, YouTube video, The Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict
- Laurie Viera Rigler on Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict and Dr. Alice Vellasenor, Jane Austen scholar, on Jane Austen on Inside the Writer’s Cafe
- Penguin Classics on Air
- Rambler’s Cafe: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Biography
- Antonin Careme: 19th Century Chef
- Jane Austen Biography
- Napoleon (Birth-Major General)
- Napoleon (Major General-First Consul)
- Napoleon (First Consul-Emperor)
- Napoleon (Emperor-Death)
- Rudolph Ackermann, Engines of Our Ingenuity
- Fallen Women, February 3, 2006 – Download Audio lecture here. (30MB MP3 ) About 54 minutes. Professor Suzanne Shumway, Ph.D., looks at the seamier side of 19th Century England in life and literature. She explores the transition from the wild, licentious Regency period to the upright Victorian era and the efforts to rehabilitate “fallen women.”
Costumes, Fashions, and Cosmetics
- Undressing Mr. Darcy: The History Wardrobe
- Sophia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette
- Persuasion: Fashion in the Day of Jane Austen, a visit to the exhibit
- The Art of Beauty: A discussion of cosmetics on the Colonial Williamsburg podcast site
Jane’s Contemporaries
- Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft
- BBC: The Long View: Max Clifford, Publicist, and Lord Byron, early self-publicist.
Locations
- Chawton House Library: A Library Devoted to Women’s Writing, BBC4
- Walking Tour of Bath
- Talking Guide of Harewood House
- Free Walks in London on Your Ipod or MP3 Player
- The Sounds of Victorian London
Music
Regency Lifestyle
- 18th Century Marriage: BBC Radio 4
- 18th Century Obsession with Taste, with Amanda Vickery, BBC Radio 4
- 18th Century Idea of Politeness, with Amanda Vickery, BBC Radio 4
- Discussion about tea and its origins, with Amanda Vickery, BBC Radio 4
- Jane Austen and Crime, Susannah Fullterton, JASA, 2011
- Life in London, 1820, Tom and Jerry
- How Rich is Fitzwilliam Darcy? Brad de Long
- The Man Mid-Wife-Engines of Our Ingenuity
- The Sounds of Victorian London
- What did 18th Century men want? Lecture by Amanda Vickery
- Colonial Williamsburg Podcast Page: Numerous podcasts about life in 18th and early 19th century colonial America
Regency Cookery
- Antonin Careme: 19th Century Chef
- Gastronomic Georgian England
- Mr. George Wythe’s Cook: Valarie Holmes interprets Lydia Broadnax, a cook for one of Williamsburg’s most influential men.
- Tea With Jane Austen
- Jane Austen Cookery: Picnics: Recipe for Pigeon Pie
- Jane Austen Dinner Parties: Salmon, Pike, Carps, or Fresh Cod in Corbullion
- The Jane Austen Cookbook: Recipe for Ginger Beer
- The Jane Austen Cookbook: Balls
- The Jane Austen Cookbook: Preserving
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