Matinée Idles presents an evening's diversion of music, words and reflections devoted to one of England's dearest loved authors.

“Aunt Jane began her day with music - for which I conclude she had a natural taste; she practised regularly every morning - She played very pretty tunes, I thought - much that she played from was manuscript, copied out by herself - and so neatly and correctly”

Songs and piano works collected by Jane Austen and her family were recorded in seven volumes of manuscripts, many in Jane's own hand. The discovery of the Austen family songbook at a Norfolk country house has laid the foundations for dramatised revelations and interpretations!