Northanger Abbey Videos and Podcasts

Click on this link for a full listing of radio plays, stage plays, and screen plays of Northanger Abbey performances today.

Click here for Part One of ITV's Northanger Abbey, a YouTube video with Felicity Jones as Catherine Morland. You will find the rest of the videos on the sidebar after watching Part One.

Podcasts on Napoleon

Military History Podcast features the following podcasts about Napoleon's life, rise, and fall:

• Napoleon (Emperor-Death)


• Napoleon (First Consul-Emperor)


• Napoleon (Major General-First Consul)


• Napoleon (Birth-Major General)
  
  
  Read more about Napoleon here:
  
  Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821
  
  The Regency Era: England and the World in the Late Georgian and Regency Era
  
  Napoleonic Guide

Sense & Sensibility Podcast

"Called a beautiful girl, truth was less violently outraged than usually happens...."

Jane Austen about Marianne Dashwood

I heard this wonderful quote in Chapter 10 of the Sense & Sensibility podcast, which you can download under "Listening" on the sidebar of the new Old Grey Pony blog. Click on the University of Florida link and download all the chapters into your ipod.

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Here's the new look of the Darcy Saga site. Well done, Sharon Lathan. You can also find a wealth of photos of the 2005 P&P in her picture album.

And if you don't have time to read Jane Austen's novels, why not listen to them on your computer or Ipod?

Find Emma and Pride and Prejudice on Page 2 of this Free Classics Audio Books site

Persuasion, an ongoing series of podcasts by Nikolle Doolin. She is a professional voice actor, and is reading the novel chapter by chapter. (From Austen blog)

How did I miss this interview last year? This 30-minute podcast from BBC in 2006 features a segment about A Rambling Fancy written by Caroline Sanderston. The broadcast provides a fascinating discussion about Jane's life at Chawton Cottage and her travels throughout South Eastern England.

Last but not least, I love the covers on these Jane Austen books. My only problem is that the dresses on the book jackets are from the wrong era. Oh well. What's a little historical accuracy these days when it's the look that counts.

Audio Walking Tour of Jane Austen's Bath

"Are you altogether pleased with Bath?"
"Yes, I like it very well."
Conversation between Henry Tilney and Catherine Morland, Northanger Abbey

Jane Austen's Bath, a website created by Bath Tourism Plus, offers an audio walking tour of Bath that you can download from the site. The tour of Bath takes 1 1/2 hours. You can listen to these audio casts in your MP3 player as you walk through Bath, or at home, as I have. Professionally produced, each segment takes 2-7 minutes. A colorful walking guide (see graphic above) is available as well on this fabulous site.

Although this audio guide was meant to serve as a walking tour, I am finding it a pleasure to listen to these podcasts in the comfort of my home, reliving my visit to Bath, and learning interesting details that flesh out my knowledge of Jane Austen's world.

Before you can download these free files, you are asked to fill out an extremely short form that will take about a minute. You will be asked to do this only once. Also, keep in mind that each audio file must be downloaded separately.

Audio files are divided into the following chapters:

1. Introduction and Abbey Church Yard
2. Thermae Bath Spa
3. Sally Lunn House
4. The Lower Rooms
5. The River Avon and Pulteney Bridge
6. Laura Place and Great Pulteney Street
7. The Royal Mineral Water Hospital
8. Beau Nash's House and the Theatre Royal
9. Queen Square
10. Gravel Walk
11. The Royal Crescent
12. The Circus
13. The Assembly Rooms
14. The Paragon
15. Milsom Street

I have placed a permanent link to this site in my sidebar under audio and visual media.

Facade of the Pump Room

Free Pride and Prejudice Audio

LibriVox describes itself as the "acoustical liberation of books in the public domain."

On this site find all the chapters of Pride and Prejudice as MP3 files.

You have several options:

• Download the chapters directly into your Ipod.

• Save the chapters on your hard drive, and then listen on your favorite audio player.

Click on Librivox or Pride and Prejudice to enter the sites.