Sense And Sensibility TV star Charity Wakefield, Emma and Miss Austen Regrets actress Greta Scacchi, The Watsons theatre director Samuel West, Emma TV actress Tamsin Greig, Love And Friendship film star Tom Bennett and Sense And Sensibility film actor Greg Wise also contribute alongside filmmaker Ken Loach.
The British author took elements of Austen’s novel Pride And Prejudice including the name of the love interest, Mr Fitzwilliam Darcy, for use in her Bridget Jones’s Diary book – which features a character called Mark Darcy.
The series, which is a 72 Films production, comes as the BBC confirms that the corporation will show adaptations of her novels as part of a season in June, and a new drama The Other Bennet Sister based on the novel by Janice Hadlow- which focusses on the prudish sister Mary Bennet from Pride And Prejudice – will be airing.
She is among famous faces including Green Wing star Tamsin Greig who are taking part in a BBC documentary about Jane Austen as the British novelist’s 250th birthday is marked this year.
Austen was born on December 16 1775, and in her short life also wrote Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, Persuasion and the unfinished works The Watsons and Sanditon which along with her other novels have been adapted into numerous films and TV shows.
