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Jane Austen
Ernie Rea presents a programme from the Hay Literary Festival on the religion of Jane Austen.
In the 200th anniversary year of the death of one of Britain's finest novelists, Ernie Rea considers the religious world of Jane Austen and how it is reflected in her novels.
Ernie is joined by novelist and priest Marie-Elsa Bragg, the social and architectural historian William Whyte, Oxford University lecturer Freya Johnston and Rev Paula Hollingsworth, author of "The Spirituality of Jane Austen."
Producer Rosie Dawson.
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Mon 5 Jun 2017
16:30
BBC Radio 4
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