Jane Austen's World

Podcasts/Audio About Jane Austen and the Regency Era, Updated Aug, 2020

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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 or listening on your Smart Phone’s wifi. To find audio files of Jane’s books, please click on the AV and E-text page.

Jane’s novels are available for free on Librivox (Be aware that these public domain books are read by amateurs, not professional readers.)

• All Jane Austen novels on Librivox
• Pride & Prejudice by a variety of readers
• Pride & Prejudice by Annie Coleman
• Mansfield Park
• Sense & Sensibility
• Persuasion, free podcast from iTunes
• North anger Abbey, free podcast from iTunes
• Emma, free podcast from iTunes

Jane’s Novels Read by Professional Readers (Free)

• Persuasion, by Nikolle Doolin (Professional voice artist)

About Jane Austen and her Novels

• On Emma: Professor Beth Ritter-Guth (Transcript of her podcast)
• 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
• Memoir of Jane Austen: Removal from Steventon, 23 min (Librivox)
• Winchester: Jane Austen, BBC Learn English

• Plain Jane? What Jane Austen Really Looked Like
• Joan Klingel Ray: Jane Austen 101, Diane Rehm Show, 2005
• First Impressions:: Why All the Austen Haters Are Wrong – 60 episodes and counting in 2020-21
• Four Reasons Why Jane Austen is Still Relevant, 2013
• Knightly In Pride And Prejudice, NPR, 2005
• 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, NPR
• The Divine Jane: Reflections on Austen, 2009, 15 min
• Fran Lebowits: Reflections on Austen, 2009, 6 min
• Harriet Walter: Reflections on Austen, 2009, 5 min
• Jane Austen’s Favorite Songs: BBC Podcast, 2010
• Interview with Susannah Fullerton, President of the Jane Austen Society of Australia, 2011, 27 min

Arts and Letters and Movies

• Jane Austen: A Letter to Her Niece, read by Kate Reading, 9 min
• Steve Bell on Gillray
• Wright’s Pride & Prejudice at the Austen Society, NPR
• 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
• Rambler’s Cafe: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
• Jane Austen, Game Theorist, Freakonomics Podcast, 2013

Biography

• Antonin Careme: 19th Century Chef, NPR
• It’s the Jane Austen Biography! Stuff You Missed in History, 40 min
• Napoleon (Birth-Major General): 11 min
• Napoleon (Major General-First Consul): 18 min
• Napoleon (First Consul-Emperor): 13 min
• Napoleon (Emperor-Death): 12 min
• Rudolph Ackermann, Engines of Our Ingenuity, Margaret Culbertson

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

History’

• Georgian Britain podcasts from the History Department of the University of Warwick

Jane’s Contemporaries

• Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft, Fresh Air Review of the book
• 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
• The Jane Austen Centre, Bath on Episode 27 on Bonnets at Dawn
• The Sounds of Victorian London

Music

• Jane Austen’s Music and the Winchester Connection, 2014, Southampton University, 1:25 hrs
• Music in the Life and Work of Jane Austen. February 24th, 2013, 1:16 hrs

Podcasts/Zoom events

• A Celebration of Jane Austen, an hour-long discussion amont 5 Jane Austen authors, sponsored by St. Martin’s Press, Henry Holt & Co, and Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, August, 2020, and moderated by Devoney Looser.

Regency Lifestyle

• Georgian Marriage and Food in History podcast, Leslie Adkins and Sara Pennell, 2013
• 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 (video)
• The Man Mid-Wife-Engines of Our Ingenuity, John Lienhard
• 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.
• 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

Servants

• Recollections of a Scottish Scullery Maid