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  • Published: 25 February 2021
  • ISBN: 9781529141719
  • Imprint: BBC DL
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $22.99

Persuasion

  • Jane Austen




In this BBC radio full-cast dramatisation of Jane Austen's last fully completed novel, Anne Elliot gets a second chance at love...

In this BBC radio full-cast dramatisation of Jane Austen's last fully completed novel, Anne Elliot gets a second chance at love...

Anne was persuaded out of an engagement with the not-yet wealthy Captain Wentworth. The Elliot family are now close to financial ruin and are forced to rent out their family home, while Captain Wentworth has returned after making his fortune at sea. How the tables have turned...

Published over 200 years ago, Persuasion remains one of the British nation's favourite novels. Among the star cast in this radio production are Juliet Stevenson, Tim Brierley, Sorcha Cusack, and Roger Hume.

This title is part of the BBC's Jane Austen collection.

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  • Published: 25 February 2021
  • ISBN: 9781529141719
  • Imprint: BBC DL
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $22.99

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