Jane Austen: Rise of a Genius
Season 1 Episode 1 of 3
Juliet Stevenson narrates a dramatised documentary examining how Jane Austen became one of the world's most well-known and critically acclaimed novelists. At the age of 17, Jane lives in Steventon, Hampshire where her father owns a library of over 500 books. Immersed in the classics, history and the emerging genre of the novel, she decides to tell her own stories
Jane Austen: Rise of a Genius airs on BBC Two HD at 7:30 PM, Saturday 31 May. (Subtitles, repeat, audio description.)
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Juliet Stevenson
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Rob Coldstream
Executive Producer
David Glover
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