HeyJaredInto The Austenverse
Into The Austenverse is a brand-new podcast celebrating Jane Austen’s works and subsequent adaptations. 2025 marks 250 years since the birth of Austen, whose groundbreaking novels not only transformed literature but continue to shape and inspire modern culture.
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- Sep 20, 2026
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- Jul 5, 2026
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BUMPER 'MY BRILLIANT CAREER' EPISODE with Showrunner Liz Doran + Stars Philippa Northeast & Kate Mulvany (opens the original)
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DC and Lisa celebrate the one-year anniversary of Into the Austenverse and reflect on global listenership and standout guests before welcoming award-winning writer/showrunner/executive producer Liz Doran to discuss Netflix’s My Brilliant Career. Doran shares how she came to the story via the film, pitched Netflix first, and developed a “dirty-hemmed, unbuttoned” Australian period drama with detailed realism, expanded First Nations storylines through First Nations writers and consultants, and a r
Bonus Episode - Interview with Joanna Nadin - Author of ‘After Darcy’ (opens the original)
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Lisa hosts solo while David is at Channel 9, recommending Joanna Nadin’s “After Darcy,” a funny, risqué, joyful Pride and Prejudice modern day sequel and previewing Sunday’s final “Franklinverse” interviews with Liz Doran and stars Kate Mulvany and Philippa Northeast. In the interview, Nadin explains she shifted from serious women’s fiction to more commercial comedy after publishing changes, drawing on her YA Austen-inspired series, and focusing on the Bennet sisters as older women dealing with
Into The Franklinverse - My Brilliant Career - Episodes 5 & 6 - A Bex and a Five Bob Down (opens the original)
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David and Lisa Campbell discuss the final two episodes of the Netflix miniseries My Brilliant Career, opening with a Henry Lawson letter praising Miles Franklin. They recap the post–New Year’s Eve fallout as Sybylla faces her grandmother reading her journal, tensions around Harry and Blanche, and escalating consequences for Frank and others on Federation Day. The conversation highlights themes of men constrained by patriarchy, women supporting and freeing each other (Nell, Betty, Helen, Gussie),
BONUS EPISODE - 'Kitty and Mary' authors Imogen Russell Williams and Julia Gray join Into The Austenverse (opens the original)
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In this special bonus episode of Into The Austenverse, Lisa interviews Julia Gray and Imogen Russell Williams about their new book, Kitty and Mary. It was born from their long friendship, shared love of Jane Austen, and a desire to revisit Pride and Prejudice by following the two Bennet sisters left unmarried. They each wrote one sister’s voice in an epistolary format, creating a “conversation” between Kitty, Mary, and themselves, with letters and journals allowing readers to see what the sister
Into the Franklinverse - My Brilliant Career - Episodes 3 & 4 - Carry On Caddagat (opens the original)
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David and Lisa Campbell recap episodes 3 and 4 of Netflix’s My Brilliant Career , celebrating Alexander England’s Uncle J.J., unpacking Everard’s role in Sybylla’s theatre opportunity and Harry’s shaky finances, and discussing Harry’s farm-mortgage scheme and the pressure to marry Blanche. They touch on Australia’s 1901 federation and women’s property rights, reveal Helen’s husband abandoned her, and praise Liz Doran’s additions, including deeper LGBTQ themes and richly integrated First Nations
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