Andrew Hunter Murray at Jane Austen's House Museum

05/06/19 • 32 min

Writer and comedian Andrew Hunter Murray takes fellow comedian and Austentatious improv partner Amy Cooke-Hodgson along to Jane Austen’s House Museum in Hampshire, where they get to indulge their mutual passion for one of the world’s most cherished writers. As well as exploring Austen's home, they come face to face with the table on which she created some of her greatest novels, and learn more about the challenges she faced as a woman writer in the 18th century.

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