Celebrating Jane Austen

Jane Austen is 17 and beginning to write stories.

Lucy Worsley traces the houses Jane Austen lived in to show how they influenced her work.

Martha Kearney investigates a possible lost portrait of Jane Austen.

Monica Dolan gives a captivating reading of Jane Austen’s much-loved novel.

Mary Bennet hopes to win her family’s approval at her first ball.

The Bennet daughters react in very different ways to the arrival of their new neighbour.

Elinor and Marianne Dashwood are thrown into sudden hardship on the death of their father.

Period drama based on the Jane Austen novel and starring Frances O'Connor.

Years after Jane Austen's death, her sister Cassandra must retrieve her long-lost letters.

Mrs Bennet is anxious to marry off one of her five daughters to newcomer Mr Bingley.

Emma persuades Harriet that she is too good for her suitor, the farmer Robert Martin.

Dramatisation of Jane Austen's novel. The Dashwoods start a new life in Devonshire.

Jane Austen's story of a girl whose head is full of romantic notions about the world.

Fanny Price is removed from her impoverished home to live with her rich relatives.

Adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel about the enduring power of love.

Amanda Root and Sophie Thompson recall the 1995 adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion.

Mrs Dashwood and her two daughters face the prospect of having to leave their home.

Drama-documentary exploring the life of Jane Austen.

Programme exploring the reasons behind the enduring popularity of novelist Jane Austen.

Lord David Cecil visits the cottage in Chawton where Jane Austen wrote many of her books.

A personal view of Jane Austen by Arianna Stassinopoulos.