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🗓️ 26 November 2017
⏱️ 10 minutes
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What the Pride and Prejudice character would have earned in today’s money.
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0:49.0 | Today we're focusing on one of the burning questions of the moment, which is just how |
0:57.0 | rich was the fictional heart-rob, Mr Darcy, one of my personal favorite figures from early 19th century English literature. |
1:05.0 | Also as it turns out, our producer Charlotte Charlotte is a fan |
1:09.0 | and Charlotte just in case some of our listeners aren't as familiar with him, |
1:12.0 | tell us who is Mr Darcy. in case some of our listeners aren't as familiar with him. |
1:13.0 | Tell us who is Mr Darcy. |
1:15.4 | So Mr Darcy was very rich. |
1:17.9 | I had a lovely house and he famously had this 10,000 pounds a year. Charlotte, do you have a cold that doesn't sound like you? |
1:24.0 | Yeah, well spotted Tim. |
1:26.0 | That's actually Stephen Broadbury, who we're going to hear from in a moment. |
1:29.0 | He's here to help us with our question this week. |
1:32.0 | He's professor of economic history at Oxford University and now after some probing from us, he's also an expert in Jane Austin's male love interest in her 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice which yes I am a fan of. |
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