A Persuasion audiobook performed by 20 actors with gorgeous ambient sounds and an original musical score to bring the story to life. From the director of the Webby Award Honouree podcast of Pride and Prejudice. Presented over 13 beautiful episodes. This dramatised audiobook is produced by the Australian not-for-profit community theatre company, Ballarat National Theatre.
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Persuasion 13. | Loving Longest
Duty to one’s family and to one’s heart is on the line as final declarations of intent and love are made. A letter slipped covertly into a palm features a renewed declaration of co…
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39 min
Persuasion 12. | Evening Party Invitations
Anne is visited by the man Mrs Smith revealed as the source of her husband’s demise and determines that she can no longer entertain his company. Her sister, Mary and her husband Ch…
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45 min
Persuasion 11. | The Tale of Mrs Smith
We're nominated in the Webby Awards and you can vote for us until April 17. Find out how here: https://bnt.org.au/newsFollowing the opera, Anne visits her childhood friend, Mrs Smi…
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41 min
Persuasion 10. | Family Connections
Bath is a buzz with the gossip of an impending proposal, but the future bride appears unaware, instead being focused on the arrival of her past paramour. Anne’s family continues to…
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51 min
Persuasion 9. | A Surprise Engagement
Anne’s time in Bath is improved by the discovery that an old school friend, Mrs Smith (nee Hamilton), lives in town, however, she is shocked at her old friend’s living situation, a…
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37 min
Persuasion 8. | Bath
Anne’s presence in Bath has little impact on her father, Sir Walter, and eldest sister Elizabeth, who have been enjoying the faster pace of the city. Anne finds a reinvigorated Mr…
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37 min
Persuasion 7. | Lady Russell Returns
Whilst her sister and brother-in-law remain in Lyme, Anne visits her friend and mentor, Lady Russell. Despite a strained start, the women are able to converse more freely, with Ann…
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37 min
Persuasion 6. | Lyme
Competition does wonders for reflecting on what might have been as Wentworth observes another man noticing Anne. The Elliot’s cousin, and heir to Kellynch Hall, has coincidentally…
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47 min
Persuasion 5. | Behind the Hedgerow
Mary’s inability to read the room continues as she invites herself on a walk with the Musgrove girls, Anne and Captain Wentworth. Louisa is a terrible flirt and her impropriety lea…
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44 min
Persuasion 4. | Perpetual Estrangement
The tension in the air whenever Anne and Captain Wentworth are in each other’s presence could be cut with a knife, not that anyone else is paying attention to Anne. All the ladies…
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50 min
Persuasion 3. | The Captain's Return
Anne enjoys the refreshing company of her new friends, whilst observing her sister and her husband, Charles’ somewhat disorderly domesticity and, as usual, being overlooked other t…
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36 min
Persuasion 2. | Past Persuasions
Inspired by recent events, Anne looks back over the last few years, recalling how she once wished to marry the dashing Captain Wentworth yet was persuaded to give him up, resulting…
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53 min
Persuasion 1. | Meet the Elliots
Welcome to Kellynch Hall, the ancestral manor of Sir Walter Elliot and the home of our forgotten and ignored heroine, Anne. Sir Walter, a vain and extravagant man, has found his sp…
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2 min
Trailer: Jane Austen's Persuasion
From the director who brought you our Webby Award Honouree audiobook podcast production of Pride and Prejudice comes our latest Jane Austen adaption. Our not-for-profit community a…