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An Afternoon and Evening with Mr Wickham!

Reading Pride and Prejudice at the Jane Austen Festival I'm at the Jane Austen Festival in Bath this week, and was very honoured to be part of the Pride and Prejudice reading that took place on Sunday. The opening chapters were read by the wonderful actors, Adrian Lukis , who played Mr Wickham in the 1995 production of Pride and Prejudice, and Caroline Langrishe , the well-known actress of film, stage and television. I love reading aloud - it's always been a pleasure of mine ever since I was a little girl, but I hadn't really thought about what a huge challenge this was going to be until I actually sat down on the same row of chairs as these wonderful actors! I'm sure appearing on the same bill as Adrian Lukis, Caroline Langrishe and Maggie Ollerenshaw would be the dream of most would-be actors, and all of a sudden the enormity of the whole event struck hard! Anyone who really knows me will appreciate how nervous I felt - I really have to make myself volunteer fo