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The Castle of Otranto, The Monk, The Mysteries of Udolpho & Northanger Abbey

Tales of Terror: A BBC Radio Gothic Drama Collection

The History of England by a Partial, Prejudiced and Ignorant Historian

Pride and Prejudice

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Sense and Sensibility

Persuasion

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Mansfield Park

Five Full-Cast Dramatisations Including Macbeth, Emma & The Great Gatsby

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Book at Bedtime: A BBC Radio Collection

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Emma is wealthy, beautiful, accomplished and a self-proclaimed matchmaker. When Emma meets Harriet Smith, a young girl of unknown parentage, Emma is convinced she can find Harriet a suitable husband. But, in her quest to find Harriet the perfect match, Emma jeopardizes Harriet's happiness and, much to her surprise, her own happiness too. 
 
The much-loved Austen novel has been given a fresh look by award-winning writer Sandy Welch. With well-known actors taking the title roles, Romola Garai and Jonny Lee Miller are Emma and Mr Knightley, this promises to be a very special and enduring adaptation.

The official TV tie-in edition to the new four-part BBC1 adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma

Jane Austen was born in Steventon rectory on 16 December 1775. Her family later moved to Bath, then to Southampton and finally to Chawton in Hampshire. She began writing Pride and Prejudice when she was twenty-two years old. It was originally called First Impressions and was initially rejected by the publishers and only published in 1813 after much revision. She published four of her novels in her lifetime, Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816). Jane Austen died on 18th July 1817. Northanger Abbey and Persuasion were both published posthumously in 1818.

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