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Book at Bedtime: Lady Susan

Emilia Fox

Lucy Robinson

Theo Fraser Steele

Clive Brill

Eileen Horne

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Book at Bedtime: Lady Susan: Episode 3

Lady Susan

Episode 3

BBC Radio 4 - Book at Bedtime, Lady Susan, Episode 3

Two new arrivals at Churchill ruffle Lady Susan's best-laid plans.

Two new arrivals at Churchill ruffle Lady Susan's best-laid plans... and tensions are gradually mounting.

Long 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

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Little-known Jane Austen work. Read by Emilia Fox, Lucy Robinson and Theo Fraser Steele

Little-known, very early Jane Austen work. Read by Emilia Fox, Lucy Robinson and Theo Fraser Steele. Abridged by Eileen Horne

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