Episode 5
The action moves to London, where Lady Susan's admirers gather, with surprising reversals in store for all concerned. But Fate is no match for Lady Susan.
A little known, very early Jane Austen work, performed on the radio for the first time.
A beautiful and scheming widow seeks a husband for both herself and her shy and awkward daughter, while engaged in an affair with a married man.
Who will win the heart of the rich and handsome Reginald De Courcy? And will the truth about Lady Susan ever come out? These are the questions a teenaged Jane Austen posed in this early epistolary novella, published long after her death - the first of her many wise and witty studies of love and marriage, and the games people play.
Read by Emilia Fox, Lucy Robinson and Theo Fraser Steele
Abridged by Eileen Horne
Producer: Clive Brill
A Pacificus production for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4.
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Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Reader | Emilia Fox |
| Reader | Lucy Robinson |
| Reader | Theo Fraser Steele |
| Producer | Clive Brill |
| Abridger | Eileen Horne |
| Author | Jane Austen |
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- Fri 27 Sep 2013 22:45Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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