Mrs. Dashwood is devastated when her beloved husband dies. The late Mr. Dashwood’s estate and fortune are bequeathed by law to his son from a previous marriage, John Dashwood, to the delight of John’s rapacious wife, Fanny. Mrs. Dashwood and her daughters are forced to move to a tiny cottage on a cousin’s estate in Devonshire, to start their lives again. It is perhaps Elinor, the eldest daughter, who is most upset to leave her childhood home....

Marianne learns the full extent of Willoughby’s betrayal and wrongdoing from Brandon, who reveals that Willoughby was disinherited by his aunt after getting a young girl (Brandon’s own ward) pregnant. Willoughby then ran off to London to – successfully - find himself a rich heiress to marry. The shock of this news is severe for Marianne and her health begins to deteriorate. When Elinor learns that Edward intends to honor his engagement to Lucy...

Episode 6 of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" begins as Colonel Brandon asks Elinor to relay his offer of a living for the disowned Edward. The Dashwood sisters go to Cleveland with Mrs. Jennings. Marianne is violently ill, and the doctor gives little hope for recovery, but the crisis passes. While Colonel Brandon goes for Mrs. Dashwood, a remorseful Willoughby arrives to ask Marianne's forgiveness.

In 1925 Luigi Pirandello brought his troupe to England as part of a worldwide tour. This program re-creates one day in London as "The Einstein of the Theater" watches his plays and, away from the footlights, confronts the paradoxical nature of his life. Portions of Six Characters in Search of an Author; Henry IV; Right You Are, If You Think You Are; and The Rules of the Game are meticulously staged, using actors' accounts, period descriptions, and...

This program looks at Austen and explores her personality by examining her correspondence and visiting the places she lived, in the process making a journey through the same glorious English countryside which Austen experienced for herself some 200 years ago.