Jane Austen at 250

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Host Meg Wolitzercelebrates Jane Austen’s 250th with works by, and inspired by, the enduring romance novelist.  Ann Harada performs an early Austen piece, “Edgar and Emma;” Sophie Carmen-Jones reads a letter from Austen to a mentor, James Stanier Clarke.  Then things get playful in the T.C. Boyle parody “I Dated Jane Austen,” performed by Wyatt Cenac.  And Hugh Dancy reads from an Austen classic, “Persuasion.”


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Host Meg Wolitzercelebrates Jane Austen’s 250th with works by, and inspired by, the enduring romance novelist.  Ann Harada performs an early Austen piece, “Edgar and Emma;” Sophie Carmen-Jones reads a letter from Austen to a mentor, James Stanier Clarke.  Then things get playful in the T.C. Boyle parody “I Dated Jane Austen,” performed by Wyatt Cenac.  And Hugh Dancy reads from an Austen classic, “Persuasion.”


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2026-04-23 60 min
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