- Imprint: BBC Digital Audio
- ISBN: 9781529936612
- Length: 456 minutes
- Price: £16.00
Jane Austen: The 250th Anniversary Collection
Four Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramatisations
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A female-centred box set of four dramatisations celebrating Jane Austen’s classic novels
On 16 December 1775, a literary icon was born. Jane Austen’s groundbreaking novels pioneered the romantic comedy genre and put women front and centre, depicting their innermost thoughts and feelings. To celebrate her 250th anniversary, here are four dramas, told through the female gaze and focusing on the fabulous, flawed, funny and fascinating women who blaze out from her books. Full of her characteristic wit and biting comedy, they feature star-studded casts including Tamsin Greig, Isabella Laughland, Luke Thompson, Miles Jupp, Adjoa Andoh, Ben Hardy, Lydia Wilson and Tala Gouveia.
Pride and Prejudice – Featuring one of the best-loved heroines in literature – lively, quick-witted Elizabeth Bennet – this radical reimagining tells the story of the five Bennet sisters’ romantic escapades, as they endeavour to fulfil their mother’s dreams and marry well.
Sense and Sensibility – When their father’s death turns their world upside down, rational, reserved Elinor Dashwood and her impulsive, emotional sister Marianne leave their old lives behind and embark on a voyage of romantic discovery.
Northanger Abbey – Seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland is a kind, honest and unworldly young woman with a head full of Gothic novels and little experience of the real world. So when wealthy, handsome Henry Tilney invites her to Northanger Abbey, she is determined to discover its dark secrets...
Mansfield Park – Aged just nine, Fanny Price is sent away from her impoverished parents to live with her rich relatives at Mansfield Park. Shaped by family and adversity, this displaced child becomes a fiercely moral young woman with an unshakable conscience – and as she navigates the complexities of love and jealousy, her true strength of character is revealed.
Cast and credits
Written by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
Narrator – Tamsin Greig
Elizabeth Bennet – Isabella Laughland
Mr Darcy – Luke Thompson
Mr Bennet – Miles Jupp
Mrs Bennet – Rosie Cavaliero
Jane Bennet – Lucy Doyle
Lydia Bennet – Kitty O’Sullivan
Kitty Bennet – Gaia Wise
Mary Bennet/Georgiana Darcy/Mary de Bourgh – Imogen Front
Mr Bingley – Louis Landau
George Wickham – Toby Regbo
Lady Catherine de Bourgh – Adjoa Andoh
Caroline Bingley – Catherine Bailey
Mr Collins – Josh Bryant Jones
Charlotte Lucas – Sasha McCabe
Mrs Gardiner – Jasmine Hyde
Mr Gardiner/Sir William Lucas – Clive Haywood
Mrs Reynolds – Sarah Thom
Produced by Tracey Neale
Sense and Sensibility
Narrator – Tamsin Greig
Elinor – Madeleine Mantock
Marianne – Rose Basista
Willoughby – Ben Hardy
Edward Ferrars – Enyi Okoronkwo
Colonel Brandon – Richard Goulding
Margaret Dashwood – Ava Talbot
Mrs Dashwood – Jasmine Hyde
Mrs. Jennings – Carolyn Pickles
Sir John – Clive Hayward
John Dashwood – Django Bevan
Fanny Dashwood – Sasha McCabe
Lucy Steele – Bethan Rose Young
Produced by Anne Isger
Northanger Abbey
Catherine Morland – Madeleine Gray
Henry TIlney – Will Howard
Isabella Thorpe – Cecilia Appiah
Mrs Allen – Ella Smith
General Tilney – John Heffernan
Eleanor Tilney – Scarlett Courtney
Mrs Morland/Mrs Thorpe – Jasmine Hyde
John Thorpe – Josh Bryant-Jones
James Morland/Captain Tilney – Django Bevan
Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane
Mansfield Park
Fanny Price – Lydia Wilson
Edmund Bertram – Bryan Dick
Mary Crawford – Tala Gouveia
Henry Crawford – Tom Mothersdale
Mrs Norris/Mrs Grant – Janice Acquah
Lady Bertram – Madeleine Worrall
Tom Bertram/William Price – Joshua Riley
Sir Thomas – John Hollingworth
Mr Rushworth – Samuel Valentine
Maria Bertram – Faith Alabi
Julia Bertram – Hollie Burgess
Dramatised by Clara Glynn
Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane
© 2025 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2025 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd
On 16 December 1775, a literary icon was born. Jane Austen’s groundbreaking novels pioneered the romantic comedy genre and put women front and centre, depicting their innermost thoughts and feelings. To celebrate her 250th anniversary, here are four dramas, told through the female gaze and focusing on the fabulous, flawed, funny and fascinating women who blaze out from her books. Full of her characteristic wit and biting comedy, they feature star-studded casts including Tamsin Greig, Isabella Laughland, Luke Thompson, Miles Jupp, Adjoa Andoh, Ben Hardy, Lydia Wilson and Tala Gouveia.
Pride and Prejudice – Featuring one of the best-loved heroines in literature – lively, quick-witted Elizabeth Bennet – this radical reimagining tells the story of the five Bennet sisters’ romantic escapades, as they endeavour to fulfil their mother’s dreams and marry well.
Sense and Sensibility – When their father’s death turns their world upside down, rational, reserved Elinor Dashwood and her impulsive, emotional sister Marianne leave their old lives behind and embark on a voyage of romantic discovery.
Northanger Abbey – Seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland is a kind, honest and unworldly young woman with a head full of Gothic novels and little experience of the real world. So when wealthy, handsome Henry Tilney invites her to Northanger Abbey, she is determined to discover its dark secrets...
Mansfield Park – Aged just nine, Fanny Price is sent away from her impoverished parents to live with her rich relatives at Mansfield Park. Shaped by family and adversity, this displaced child becomes a fiercely moral young woman with an unshakable conscience – and as she navigates the complexities of love and jealousy, her true strength of character is revealed.
Cast and credits
Written by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
Narrator – Tamsin Greig
Elizabeth Bennet – Isabella Laughland
Mr Darcy – Luke Thompson
Mr Bennet – Miles Jupp
Mrs Bennet – Rosie Cavaliero
Jane Bennet – Lucy Doyle
Lydia Bennet – Kitty O’Sullivan
Kitty Bennet – Gaia Wise
Mary Bennet/Georgiana Darcy/Mary de Bourgh – Imogen Front
Mr Bingley – Louis Landau
George Wickham – Toby Regbo
Lady Catherine de Bourgh – Adjoa Andoh
Caroline Bingley – Catherine Bailey
Mr Collins – Josh Bryant Jones
Charlotte Lucas – Sasha McCabe
Mrs Gardiner – Jasmine Hyde
Mr Gardiner/Sir William Lucas – Clive Haywood
Mrs Reynolds – Sarah Thom
Produced by Tracey Neale
Sense and Sensibility
Narrator – Tamsin Greig
Elinor – Madeleine Mantock
Marianne – Rose Basista
Willoughby – Ben Hardy
Edward Ferrars – Enyi Okoronkwo
Colonel Brandon – Richard Goulding
Margaret Dashwood – Ava Talbot
Mrs Dashwood – Jasmine Hyde
Mrs. Jennings – Carolyn Pickles
Sir John – Clive Hayward
John Dashwood – Django Bevan
Fanny Dashwood – Sasha McCabe
Lucy Steele – Bethan Rose Young
Produced by Anne Isger
Northanger Abbey
Catherine Morland – Madeleine Gray
Henry TIlney – Will Howard
Isabella Thorpe – Cecilia Appiah
Mrs Allen – Ella Smith
General Tilney – John Heffernan
Eleanor Tilney – Scarlett Courtney
Mrs Morland/Mrs Thorpe – Jasmine Hyde
John Thorpe – Josh Bryant-Jones
James Morland/Captain Tilney – Django Bevan
Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane
Mansfield Park
Fanny Price – Lydia Wilson
Edmund Bertram – Bryan Dick
Mary Crawford – Tala Gouveia
Henry Crawford – Tom Mothersdale
Mrs Norris/Mrs Grant – Janice Acquah
Lady Bertram – Madeleine Worrall
Tom Bertram/William Price – Joshua Riley
Sir Thomas – John Hollingworth
Mr Rushworth – Samuel Valentine
Maria Bertram – Faith Alabi
Julia Bertram – Hollie Burgess
Dramatised by Clara Glynn
Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane
© 2025 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2025 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd