We had so much fun discussing Mansfield Park earlier this year, that we made sure to get back to Jane Austen as soon as possible. We're doing that with Episode 129 of Adapt or Perish and a look at Persuasion!
In this episode, we discuss:
- Jane Austen's original 1818 novel
- The 1971 series, directed by Howard Baker, written by Julian Mitchell, and starring Ann Firbank, Bryan Marshall, Basil Dignam, Richard Vernon, and Morag Hood
- The 1995 movie, directed by Roger Michell, written by Nick Dear, and starring Amanda Root, Ciarán Hinds, Corin Redgrave, Fiona Shaw, Samuel West, and Sophie Thompson
- The 2007 TV movie, directed by Adrian Shergold, written by Simon Burke, and starring Sally Hawkins, Rupert Penry-Jones, Anthony Head, Alice Krige, Tobias Menzies, and Nicholas Farrell
- Rational Creatures, the 2019–2022 web series, created by Aileen Barrios Ruiz Pagano, Hazel Jeffs, Anya Steiner, and Jessamyn Leigh, and starring Kristina Pupo, Peter Giessl, Derek Quesada, Gabriela Diaz, and Benjamin Mills
- Modern Persuasion, the 2020 movie, directed by Alex Appel and Jonathan Lisecki, written by Lisecki and Barbara Radecki, and starring Alicia Witt, Shane McRae, Bebe Neuwirth, Mark Moses, and Liza Lapira
- The 2022 movie, directed by Carrie Cracknell, written by Ronald Bass and Alice Victoria Winslow, and starring Dakota Johnson, Cosmo Jarvis, Henry Golding, Nikki Amuka-Bird, and Richard E. Grant
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