Andrew Davies' Sanditon Is An Austen Tale Only He Could Create
Screenwriter Andrew Davies has adapted plenty of Jane Austen's books for the small screen, but his latest, "Sanditon," is ever so modern in its execution.
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Show Notes
Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Seven of the First Season of Sanditon.
Screenwriter Andrew Davies has already adapted Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey, and *Emma *for television *— *but his new iteration of the author's tragically unfinished final novel, Sanditon is a creation distinctly his own. Davies reveals how he found the plot in Austen's 24,000-word fragment, and what he embellished on his own in creating the new series.