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Book at Bedtime: Persuasion

Clive Brill

Jane Austen

Elaine Bedell

Book at Bedtime: Persuasion: Episode 6

Persuasion

Episode 6

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Anne Elliot finds out about an engagement which astonishes her.

Anne Elliot finds out from her sister Mary about an engagement which astonishes her, and Captain Wentworth arrives in Bath - seemingly a changed man.

Jane Austen's last fully completed novel, published six months after she passed away - 200 years ago next year.

The novel concerns the fortunes of 27 year old spinster Anne Elliot, whose family have fallen on hard times and are forced to rent out their family home and move to Bath. 

Anne finds the superficiality of Bath society hard to take - although we are treated to a pleasant gallery of eccentric characters. Anne meets Captain Wentworth again, a man to whom she was engaged some seven years previously until she was persuaded to drop the attachment. 

The novel is a story about second chances. Anne - considered "on the shelf" by some - gets another opportunity to contemplate love and a future with a man she thought was lost forever.

Written by Jane Austen
Produced by Clive Brill
Abridged by Elaine Bedell

A Brill production for BBC Radio 4.

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Jane Austen's last fully completed novel, published six months after she died.

Book at Bedtime marks 2017's 200th anniversary of Jane Austen's death by broadcasting her last fully completed novel, published six months after she died.

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