13 Friday Feb 2015
Posted in Books, Friday Favorites
They’re back!
Last May, BBC Radio 4 re-aired a radio play of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park, in celebration of the novel’s 200th birthday. The cast included David Tennant as Tom, Benedict Cumberbatch as Edmund, and Felicity Jones as Fanny Price.
And now you can have a copy of your very own 🙂
Amazon UK has the CD in stock, while Amazon.com has a US release date of March 1. Can’t wait on the American side of the Pond? Audible also has it as a digital download, available now.
03 Friday Oct 2014
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Emma, Gotta Be Somebody, Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, Nickelback, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility
This week’s Favorite might seem like an incongruous pairing…until you watch the video.
Jane Austen movies + Nickelback = Awesome-ness 😀
02 Friday May 2014
Posted in Books, Friday Favorites
Mansfield Park is 200 years old this month, and BBC is celebrating! Beginning Monday, May 12, BBC Radio 4 will be re-airing a radio play of Jane Austen’s third novel that was first recorded in 2003, featuring David Tennant as Tom and Benedict Cumberbatch as Edmund. The 10-part broadcast will begin at 2:00 BST, and a new installment will air each day over the course of two weeks.
Not in the UK? Never fear, overseas listeners can tune in here.
More information can be found here.
16 Friday Aug 2013
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Austen in August, Byron, Emma, Jane Austen, Jonny Lee Miller, Mansfield Park, Romola Garai, Sherlock Holmes
He currently stars as a modern-day, just-out-of-rehab Sherlock Holmes in the TV series Elementary. He’s had a variety of roles in shows like Dexter and East Enders. He even appeared in a Brother Cadfael mystery.
So what does actor Jonny Lee Miller have to do with Regency romance? He seems to have a knack for playing an Austen gentleman–which is why he’s our Friday Favorite this week 😀
He’s been in two different adaptations of Mansfield Park, in 1983 as Charles Price and in 1999 as Edmund Bertram.
In 2003, he played the title role in the movie Byron.
And in 2006, he played Mr. Knightly in the BBC miniseries Emma. The clip below is one of my favorite parts of the series, with Romola Garai as Emma Woodhouse.
