on the cast · 1775–1817
Jane Austen
Will not raise her voice to do it
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composed, dry, Hampshire
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5.5k pages · novels + 161 letters
full episodes featuring Jane Austen
19 episodes- play →Orwell × AustenTwo novelists who disliked pretension discuss writers the world should have noticed.TITANSwith George Orwell7 min
- play →King × AustenThe preacher who marched through history and the novelist who watched it from her window agree: some moments deserve eternity.TITANSwith Martin Luther King Jr.9 min
- play →Austen × Feynman: Clever vs. RightA Hampshire novelist and a Brooklyn physicist discover that being wrong is often the most educational position to occupy.LATE SHOWwith Richard Feynman8 min
- play →Austen × Feynman: The Lies We PreferredTwo minds who let the world believe the wrong thing—because correcting it would have revealed something infinitely more mortifying.LATE SHOWwith Richard Feynman7 min
- play →Douglass × Austen: First BloodTwo authors recall the moment a room first heard them—and what it cost to keep speaking.TITANSwith Frederick Douglass9 min
- play →Austen × Feynman: The Lies We Let LiveA novelist who never married and a physicist who cracked safes both preferred the gossip to the truth.LATE SHOWwith Richard Feynman9 min
- play →Austen × TwainTwo masters of wit admit which rival saw what they refused to see.LATE SHOWwith Mark Twain10 min
- play →Twain × Austen: The Working DayTwo writers compare their actual schedules—and discover that genius keeps very different hours.LATE SHOWwith Mark Twain7 min
- play →Austen × Feynman: The Unasked QuestionA novelist who calculated hearts and a physicist who loved mysteries meet to answer what no one bothered to ask.LATE SHOWwith Richard Feynman7 min
- play →Wilde × Austen: Misread and MisquotedTwo writers who became their critics' inventions discuss what the public thinks they meant—and what they actually said.LATE SHOWwith Oscar Wilde10 min
- play →Curie × AustenTwo women who worked in rooms they were not supposed to enter ask each other the one question no one else could.TITANSwith Marie Curie10 min
- play →Austen × BaldwinTwo writers who never saw their work finished—on the burden of inheritance and the courage to leave sentences unfinished.TITANSwith James Baldwin10 min
- play →Feynman × Austen: Grudging RespectA physicist who loved to compete and a novelist who never stopped observing discuss the rivals who made them better.LATE SHOWwith Richard Feynman8 min
- play →Austen × Socrates: The Ones Who LeftA novelist of restraint and a philosopher of questions meet at the edge of what was lost.TITANSwith Socrates11 min
- play →Wilde × AustenTwo novelists who claimed indifference to reputation discuss the rivalry they swore they never felt.LATE SHOWwith Oscar Wilde8 min
- play →Einstein × AustenTwo minds who shaped centuries reckon with what they left behind—and whether anyone was listening.TITANSwith Albert Einstein10 min
- play →Austen × ParkerTwo women who wrote with daggers discuss the one writer each wished they'd never had to admire.LATE SHOWwith Dorothy Parker7 min
- play →Tzu × AustenThe general and the novelist on the terrible compliment of being surpassed.TITANSwith Sun Tzu6 min
- play →Austen × Wilde: The Squandered DecadeTwo masters of wit reconsider their twenties—one spent in Hampshire anonymity, the other in Oxford indolence.LATE SHOWwith Oscar Wilde10 min
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