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Interview with Sara Paretsky

15 Wednesday Jul 2015

Posted by ninevoices in Crime, Ed, Fiction, Heard lately

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BBC Radio 4, Sara Paretsky, VI Warshawski, Woman's Hour

If you’re a fan of Sara Paretsky, you might like to know that there was an interview with her on “Woman’s Hour” this morning.  She talks about her creation Chicago-based private investigator VI Warshawski and her own life and writing. It’s at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b062kqzq#auto, it starts between 2 and 3 minutes in, and lasts for 11 minutes or so.

Sense & Sensibility reworked; Austenian happy endings

27 Sunday Oct 2013

Posted by ninevoices in Ed, Heard lately, Reading

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Alfa Romeo, Austen Project, Edward Ferrars, happy endings, Jane Austen, Joanna Trollope, Northanger Abbey, Radio 4, Sense & Sensibility, Woman's Hour

New to me, but probably not to you, is The Austen Project, which will see updated versions of JA’s great canon. The first is Joanna Trollope’s ‘Sense & Sensibility’. You can hear Joanna T talking about it on the 24 October edition of Radio 4’s ‘Woman’s Hour’ – at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03dvbyp (first item). She recognises that Austen purists might not approve of such modernised versions and so advises them not to read hers. Her book was also covered in the ‘Times’ (and no doubt other newspapers) on 25 October. One of the changes she makes is that Willoughby drives an Alfa Romeo instead of riding a magnificent horse; and Edward Ferrars is looking for work in the charity field instead of seeking a parish where he could be vicar.

As there has even been a version of ‘Pride & Prejudice’ involving zombies JA probably fares rather well at the hands of JT!

Joanna Trollope says in the ‘Woman’s Hour’ interview that she feels that Jane Austen rather loses interest in her happy endings. That is the impression I got in ‘Northanger Abbey’, which I’ve just reread after 45+ years. There the loose ends seem to be tidied up in remarkably good time and fortune suddenly smiles on almost all.

Joanna Trollope’s version of S&S is out now. Go to http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17349163-sense-sensibility for more info.

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