FT Weekend: Jane Austen, forever. Plus: trans inclusion in sports
FT News Briefing
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🗓️ 22 October 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Two hundred years after Jane Austen’s novels were published, adaptations are still going strong. This summer saw the release of Fire Island, a gay adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, and the Netflix original, Persuasion. Brooke Masters, our US investment and industries editor and a lifelong Jane Austen fan, and University of Maine literature professor Caroline Bicks, join Lilah to talk about the novelist’s enduring appeal. Then, the Boston Marathon has a new non-binary gender category. This is one of three approaches to trans inclusion that elite sports have taken so far. Lilah invites US sports business correspondent Sara Germano on to discuss.
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Links and mentions from the episode:
– To subscribe to FT Weekend on its own feed in Apple podcasts click here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/ft-weekend/id1179847741
– Brooke is on Twitter @brookeamasters. Sara is on Twitter @germanotes
– The FT’s review of Fire Island: https://on.ft.com/3gtH11R and Netflix’s Persuasion: https://on.ft.com/3MTbB0X
– A recent FT Magazine piece by Sara: ‘What next for Brittney Griner – and for women’s sport?’ https://on.ft.com/3eUMbDG
– To stay up to date on the business of sports, you may like the FT newsletter Scoreboard: https://www.ft.com/scoreboard
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Original music by Metaphor Music. Mixing and sound design by Breen Turner and Sam Giovinco
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| 0:00.0 | Hi listeners, this is Lila. You are listening to FT Weekend where you probably always do, |
| 0:05.7 | which is on Saturdays on the FT News Briefing Feed. However, I have an announcement. We have |
| 0:11.0 | our own feed and in a few weeks we will only be publishing there. We won't be publishing |
| 0:15.2 | here anymore. We've also got bonus content over there and a lot of other fun stuff. |
| 0:20.6 | So if you like the show, I would love if you pulled up your phone, search for FT Weekend |
| 0:26.4 | wherever you listen to podcasts and subscribe there so you don't miss an episode. I've also |
| 0:31.2 | included a link to make it easy in the show notes. Thank you, see you there and enjoy the show. |
| 0:38.4 | In 1813, Jane Austen wrote what would become her most famous sentence. |
| 0:43.9 | It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune |
| 0:48.5 | must be in want of a wife. Those are the opening words of pride and prejudice, |
| 0:53.9 | which you may know is a classic novel about five sisters. The person you're hearing is the |
| 0:59.1 | actor Joel Kim Booster in a recent adaptation called Fire Island as a male Lizzie Bennett. |
| 1:05.2 | Fire Island is actually a gay adaptation of pride and prejudice. It was really popular. |
| 1:10.2 | And in it, instead of Lizzie Bennett and her four sisters, it's Joel's character and his four |
| 1:15.1 | best friends. I knew I smelled some bottoms. Fire Island is the latest in |
| 1:23.8 | a string of recent Austen adaptations. There's persuasion on Netflix. There's pride and |
| 1:29.0 | prejudice, the musical in the West End and London. There's a new version of Emma that came out |
| 1:33.6 | in 2020. And my colleague Brooke Masters has been obsessed with Austen since she was a teenager. |
| 1:39.8 | And she and I have been chatting about these adaptations for months like every time we bump into |
| 1:44.2 | each other in the newsroom, we talk about it. So I invited her on alongside her childhood friend |
| 1:49.4 | Caroline Bix, who's an English professor. We wanted to get into it. Brooke is so into Austen |
| 1:55.5 | that someone she dated once knew that the best way to court her was to compare her to her favorite |
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