This is a bit of an in-between episode. About two months ago, when we were getting ready to record Episode 2, Ellen came down with a bad virus – not COVID, but recovery has been a slow process. We’re just about to start recording again, but it means there’s going to be more of a gap before Episode 2, and probably between the other episodes as well, since we don’t have any edited and ready to go in advance.
To fill in the space before Episode 2, we’ve put together some of the bits we had to edit out of Episode 1. It’s a bit disjointed, but we hope you enjoy it.
Creative commons music used:
- Extract from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sonata No. 12 in F Major, ii. Adagio.
- Extract from Joseph Haydn, Piano Sonata No. 38. Performance by Ivan Ilić, recorded in Manchester in December, 2006. File originally from IMSLP.
- Extract from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sonata No. 13 in B-Flat Major, iii. Allegretto Grazioso. File originally from Musopen.
- Extract from George Frideric Handel, Suite I, No. 2 in F Major, ii. Allegro. File originally from Musopen.
- Extract from Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 28 in A major. File originally from Musopen.
Best wishes to Ellen!
I hope Ellen is doing well. I love listening to you both!
Thank you both. She is recovering well, and we have recorded the next episode. I hope to have it edited and ready to release just after Christmas.
I always felt that Billy Piper was totally miscast as Fanny. Billy Piper’s character in Doctor was a working class young woman with a very outgoing personality and not to be pushed around. In the Fanny role this personality still comes through.
I agree that most of the things I have seen Billie Piper in, she comes across as very outgoing. Which is not a feature of book-Fanny. I’m willing to reserve judgement on whether she COULD have played book-Fanny (I have by no means seen all of her work, so she may have quite a lot of range) but I think the key thing is that the makers of this weren’t really interested in presenting book-Fanny. They seem to have wanted a character that is more outgoing and ‘relatable’. So I guess Billie Piper was fine for the character in the script. She just doesn’t have a huge amount of connection with the character Jane Austen created. (In my opinion.)