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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

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