Rachel Parris - You're Booked

About this episode

Daisy Buchanan celebrates Jane Austen's 250th birthday with guest Rachel Parris, discussing Austen's works and related literature.

It's Jane Austen's 250th birthday! And we can't think of a better way to celebrate than a conversation with the fabulous stand-up, actor, improviser and author Rachel Parris ! Rachel's Austen credentials are acute. As well as being a founding member of the amazing Austen-inspired improv group Austentatious , alongside former YB guests Cariad Lloyd and Andrew Hunter Murray , her first novel, Introducing Mrs Collins , is a sequel, of sorts, to Pride and Prejudice. We talked to Rachel about Jane Austen (a lot), regency sex scenes, bookish palate cleansers and an adult version of the Jolly Postman. Discover more about the titles mentioned at our Bookshop.org shop . Find out more about Daisy's upcoming live events at her Creative Confidence Clinic. BOOKS Daisy Buchanan - All Grown Up Rachel Parris - Introducing Mrs Collins Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen - Persuasion Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre Monique Roffey - Mermaid of Black Conch Jennie Godfrey - The List of Suspicious Things Ambrose Parry - The Way of all Flesh: A Raven and Fisher Mystery: Book 1 George Eliot - Middlemarch Julie Owen Moylan - Elizabeth and Marilyn Helen…

People in this episode

Host: Daisy Buchanan

Guest: Rachel Parris

Topics covered

• Jane Austen
• literature
• improv
• book discussion
• regency era

Keywords

• Jane Austen
• Rachel Parris
• Pride and Prejudice
• literature
• improv

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Pride and Prejudice, Introducing Mrs Collins, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Jane Eyre, Mermaid of Black Conch, The List of Suspicious Things, The Way of all Flesh: A Raven and Fisher Mystery: Book 1, Middlemarch, Elizabeth and Marilyn

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