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jane austen is brilliant. the jane austen birthday ball.her connection to hampshire is well known. the abbey gateway was part of the reading ladies this was where jane austen went to school with her sister cassandra and their cousinjane in the late 18th century. at the school for 18 months. this beautiful mediaeval building at the centre it was then the edge of town. it was very sort of romantic and wild and the girls could run and play in the abbey ruins. so you can imagine this all sort of formulating in her head. we're running guided tours all the way through the summer this one made quite a splash. why has that captured so many people's imagination? we all know. don't we? so anything that is here is extremely valuable. outside number eight. we're going to be opening the house to the public i for the first time. we'll be able to look i out of the window that she writes in a lovelyj letter to her nephew. it's also from that window that her sister cassandra, j journey to her burial - in winchester cathedral. year to pay homage. they have s

jane austen's brilliant. did have to learn to dance. exactly 212 years ago, on january the 28th, 1813have had such an impact globally. to a much wider audience. she spent her final weeks in the city. so anything that is here is extremely valuable. and there's this wonderful subtext underneath jane austen's novels were published anonymously. seen on banknotes and coins. tim muffett, bbc news. we will have the headlines just a few moments including than the democratic more than the democratic republic of congo and more from gaza as well. —— from. almost at the back end of this stormy spell. got to watch this, though, this is developing storm ivo. it's been named by the portuguese weather but at the moment we do have the remnants of storm amina, still bringing frequent showers and blustery conditions across the south. but all those will gradually ease their way eastwards a few wintry showers in northern scotland, than last night. huge amounts of rain here, very strong winds for us, ours will be a near miss. 50—60 mile an hour gusts between to towards the south west. maybe heavy rain thro

jane austen would — you know, going back — be one.t a tradition you like to feel a part of? i think it is, yes. i mean, i do think of myself broadly as writing in a tradition of english social comedy and that, you know, the books can veer wildly in tone and feeling and they can have very, very dark and difficult things in them. but there is probably something essentially comic when you get people together about the kind of social negotiations that people enter into with each other, and about conversation itself and the things which are not being said in conversation. and that has always fascinated me, and i think is probably rather central to... and it digs deep into sort of english obsessions with things like class. but... it does, absolutely. ..one thing you've done in our evenings which is different — and you talked about it a little bit already — in creating the character of dave win who is central to the story, you've inhabited a character who's not quintessentially english. indeed, he's half burmese, and that is interesting cos

and if you read jane austen, you know that emma woodhouse paints and lady catherine de bourgh is scandalized that elizabeth bennett does not paint. but the trumbull sisters learn to paint an embroider and their works were hung over the mantle in the parlor of the family house. and john remembered as a boy lying on the floor and drawing, copying them on the floor. the nicely sanded floor. what his mother thought of this i don't know. she she probably thought well of it. she seems like she was a warm person. his father didn't think well of it. he was a businessman and a politician . a public servant. he would become governor of the colony of connecticut and then of the state after independence. and he wanted his youngest son to be a lawyer. they had many discussions about this over the years. one of the last ones john tells his father, well, lawyers just deal with the vices of mankind but artists can depict the glories of their countries as the artists of ancient athens did. and his father said , that's a good argument. it shows you would be a good lawyer. but you've left something out. what i

you've gone from, yeah, john belushi, animal house to jane austen. good. alex korson thinks you may be referencing spaceballs next. go ahead. >> well, very quickly, i hope people will stop saying today on the center, left and left. oh, i can't believe joe biden is being nice to him. that's wrong. right? because trump because president trump did not do this four years ago, makes it all the more important for president biden to do it today. >> yeah, no. even with harsh words and criticism about michelle obama not attending, i really hope americans on both sides see that even with what happened four years ago, joe biden and doctor jill biden will be offering and presenting a peaceful transition of power. that's important, as will bill clinton and hillary clinton, george w bush and laura bush. >> i mean, the yeah, they will be there because they believe in the institutions. they believe in american democracy. yeah, because they think it's important to be there because they're not there for any particular man. right. they're there for the 77 million americans t