Season Six Trailer: Jane Austen's Persuasion
Hot and Bothered
Not Sorry Productions
4.8 • 62 Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2026
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
We're returning to our roots with Season 6 of Hot and Bothered – reading classic romance literature.
This season, Vanessa Zoltan will be joined by her mentor Dr. Stephanie Paulsell to read Jane Austen's Persuasion one chapter at a time. We'll ask questions about grief, beauty, aging, and, of course, love.
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| 0:00.0 | You know who loves Pride and Prejudice? Every basic girl like me. You know who loves Persuasion? The real Austin fans. The smart ones, the deep ones. People will tell you that persuasion is the most subtle of the Austin novels, |
| 0:22.8 | that Anne is the most mature of the Austin heroines, |
| 0:26.5 | that the writing is the most sophisticated of all of Austin's novels. |
| 0:31.8 | Famous and harsh literary critic who dares to come up against Shakespeare at times. |
| 0:38.9 | Harold Bloom calls persuasion a perfect novel. |
| 0:44.7 | Roxanne Eberley, fancy pants Austin Scholar, has this to say. |
| 0:49.5 | It is by far the most powerfully romantic with a small R novel that Austin writes. |
| 0:57.5 | Which makes sense, because it has one of the hottest lines I've ever read. |
| 1:03.1 | Seriously, imagine if a man said this to you. |
| 1:06.6 | I am half agony, half hope. |
| 1:10.4 | Well, this is a podcast all about romance, isn't it? |
| 1:14.1 | So of course we have to do the most romantic, Austin. |
| 1:17.4 | It's also apparently the smartest. |
| 1:19.6 | We're smart. |
| 1:20.7 | It's also apparently perfect. |
| 1:22.5 | We're perfect. |
| 1:24.5 | What makes it the most romantic? |
| 1:27.0 | Why do we love Anne Elliott so much? What does it the most romantic? Why do we love Anne Elliott so much? |
| 1:30.4 | What does it mean that Anne is quote unquote in bloom, |
| 1:33.8 | which gets repeated again and again in the novel? |
| 1:36.6 | And why do I suspect that we are talking about whether or not men want to have sex with her? |
| 1:42.2 | Starting July 7th, we are setting sail on our chapter-by-chapter reading of persuasion. |
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