Hello everyone, and welcome to Speaking with Joy, a podcast to fill your soul, challenge your mind,

and make you brave. I'm your host, Joy Clarkson, and an evangelist for all things good, true,

and beautiful. So make yourself a cup of tea, find somewhere

comfortable, and let's dive in to this week's episode.

Hello, friends, and welcome back to Speaking with Joy.

Over the next few weeks, I will be posting more episodes than usual in a series that I like

to call in my mind the Escape Cast.

In a time when I know that we will all be homebound and perhaps a little bit anxious, I have

been working to prepare

a series of episodes that will fill you with true, good, and beautiful things, along with some

fascinating topics and interesting conversation partners. I have reached out to many of my favorite

thinkers, tweeters, writers, and performers, And I'll be sharing those episodes with you every

couple of days for the next few weeks. It is my hope that this series will bring you a broad

variety of interesting topics, some hope and beauty in your days, and also a little bit of

wholesome distraction. So tune in here for your hour of sanity and happiness. I'm excited to share this first episode with you, a real treat, an interview with Karen Swallow

Prior, a professor in English literature, talking with me about virtue, character, and the great

moral philosopher of the 19th century, Jane Austen.

I hope you all enjoy this episode.

Hello, everyone, and welcome back to Speaking with Joy. It is me, your host Joy Clarkson, talking to you from a very quiet St. Andrews in Scotland.

And today, I have the great delight of welcoming a guest onto the show. I have the, is it the infamous Karen Swallow Pryor? Is that what your Twitter handle says?

Right now it says notorious. Oh, theorious. Infamous is different than... What works, really, I think, based on my current status.

Oh, I'm so happy to have you on the show today. We are Skyping during, kind of where everyone

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