Miss Caroline Bingley, Private Detective by Kelly Gardiner & Sharmini Kumar

Miss Caroline Bingley, Private Detective by Kelly Gardiner & Sharmini Kumar

What if Caroline Bingley was the main character and we learn what happens to her after Pride & Prejudice? What if she ends up embroiled in a murder case alongside Georgiana Darcy in London? What if she discovers she is pretty good at solving crimes? Melinda and Stefanie discuss murder mysteries, characters changing for sequels and flying wombs in Miss Caroline Bingley, Private Detective by Kelly Gardiner and Sharmini Kumar. Links & Mentions You can read more about the East India Company at Britannica.com [https://www.britannica.com/topic/East-India-Company]. This Guardian article from 2015 also explains the company's unpleasant history [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/04/east-india-company-original-corporate-raiders]. And if you want to learn more about the White Saviour trope as it appears in literature and film, you can do so here. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_savior] You can also read more about Devoney Looser's book Wild for Austen [https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250361332/wildforausten/] and where to buy it here. If you need subtitles or a transcript, these are available through Apple Podcasts. Please note, they are auto generated so we apologise in advance for it not correctly understanding our accents on certain words. As always you can find us (and our memes) on Instagram @janeaustenremixed [https://www.instagram.com/janeaustenremixed]and you can contact us via janeaustenremixed@gmail.com. Join us every second Monday to hear all about a new adaptation of our favourite classic novel. Next episode we will be reading The Bennet Women by Eden Appiah-Kubi. If you're reading along, we encourage you to buy secondhand or support your local independent bookshop, where possible.

Pride & Prejudice & Zombies by Jane Austen & Seth Grahame-Smith

What if the England of Pride & Prejudice was beset by a strange plague that brought the dead back to life to slaughter the living? What if young ladies were taught proficiency in sword play rather than playing the piano? And what if Elizabeth was a heartless, revenge driven, borderline sociopath? Stefanie and Melinda discuss what happens when revisiting one of your favourite adaptations goes awry, and the painful hilarity of watching Hollywood go completely rogue on the film adaptation of a (sort of) classic novel in Pride & Prejudice & Zombies by Jane Austen & Seth Grahame-Smith and its companion film, directed by Burr Steers.  Links & Mentions The author’s interview in The Times can be read in full here [https://www.thetimes.com/travel/destinations/asia-travel/china/pride-and-prejudice-as-zombie-pulp-fiction-zjgwxs6llfp#:~:text=Yes%2C%20the%20LA%2Dbased%20television%20writer,placid%20villages%20of%2019th%2Dcentury%20England.]. Additional interviews used as sources can be found here on TIme.com [https://time.com/archive/6909850/pride-and-prejudice-now-with-zombies/], here on Entertainment Weekly [https://ew.com/article/2009/02/21/monster-mash-up/], and the author discusses reading everything Austen ever wrote here [https://directconversations.com/2016/02/05/interview-seth-grahame-smith-talks-pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies/#google_vignette]. More information on Isolationist Japan can be found here [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakoku#:~:text=It%20is%20conventionally%20regarded%20that,to%20peace%20in%20the%20archipelago]. A brief history of ninja can be found here [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninja] - NB Stefanie uses the modern prefecture names only in this episode.  EMMA COFFIN’S FANTASTIC LOOK AT ORIENTALISM  ("NINJAS – INVISIBLE IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE: ORIENTALISM IN GRAHAME-SMITH’S PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES [https://thegardenstatuary.com/archives/1998#:~:text=While%20the%20zombie%20plague%20portions,for%20the%20white%20British%20characters]") CAN BE FOUND HERE. THE MORE IN-DEPTH EXAMINATION OF COSTUMING IN PPZ THAT STEFANIE REFERENCES IS HERE [https://plaidpetticoats.blogspot.com/2016/02/pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies-review.html]. WHILE YOU CAN ACCESS THE INTERVIEW WITH THE 2005 FILM COSTUME DESIGNER JACQUELINE DURRAN HERE ON THE WAYBACK MACHINE [https://web.archive.org/web/20090123122840/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/3649828/How-I-undressed-Mr-Darcy.html], WHERE SHE MENTIONS THAT JOE WRIGHT WAS DESPERATE FOR ANY EXCUSE TO SHIFT THE TEMPORAL SETTING OF THE NOVEL TO AVOID "UNFLATTERING EMPIRE WAISTLINES". You can read more about the religious piety aspect of PPZ, that we didn't have time to get into in the episode, here in the fabulously named “Piety and Pigs Brains” essay [https://jasna.org/publications-2/persuasions-online/volume-38-no-3/taylor/#:~:text=Wickham%20presents%20Lady%20Catherine%20with,might%20live%20together%20in%20England] on the JASNA website. If you need subtitles or a transcript, these are available through Apple Podcasts. Please note, they are auto generated so we apologise in advance for it not correctly understanding our accents on certain words.  As always, you can find us (and our memes) on Instagram @janeaustenremixed [https://www.instagram.com/janeaustenremixed]and you can contact us via janeaustenremixed@gmail.com.  Join us every second Monday to hear all about a new adaptation of our favourite classic novel. Next episode we will be reading Miss Caroline Bingley, Private Detective by Kelly Gardiner and Sharmini Kumar. If you're reading along, we encourage you to buy secondhand or support your local independent bookshop, where possible.

Accomplished: A Georgie Darcy Story by Amanda Quain

What if the main character of Pride & Prejudice was Georgiana Darcy? What if she attends a boarding school in upstate New York? What if she’s trying to rebuild her reputation and live up to the standard of her perfect older brother? Melinda and Stefanie discuss our beloved story from a different perspective, realistic mental health journeys and Hollywood teen movies tropes in Accomplished: A Georgie Darcy Story by Amanda Quain. Links & Mentions Need some help with the marching band terms in this episode? Here's a helpful list of the most common terms [https://warhillband.com/glossary-of-marching-band-terms/]. If you need subtitles or a transcript, these are available through Apple Podcasts. Please note, they are auto generated so we apologise in advance for it not correctly understanding our accents on certain words.  As always you can find us (and our memes) on Instagram @janeaustenremixed [https://www.instagram.com/janeaustenremixed] and you can contact us via janeaustenremixed@gmail.com.  Join us every second Monday to hear all about a new adaptation of our favourite classic novel. Next episode we will be reading Pride & Prejudice & Zombies by Jane Austen & Seth Grahame-Smith and watching the companion movie of the same name, directed by Burr Steers. If you're reading along, we encourage you to buy secondhand or support your local independent bookshop, where possible.

BONUS: The Marvel Minisode

What if your hosts were also Marvel Cinematic Universe nerds? What if they got a reader question in the mailbox episode asking them to cast MCU characters as Pride & Prejudice characters? What if what was meant to be a five-minute segment turned into a 50-minute tangent and they decided to turn it into a bonus episode?  Stefanie and Melinda spend way too much time discussing the nuances of MCU characters and how they fit into the beloved world of Pride & Prejudice. Links & Mentions If you need subtitles or a transcript, these are available through Apple Podcasts. Please note, they are auto generated so we apologise in advance for it not correctly understanding our accents on certain words.  As always, you can find us (and our memes) on Instagram @janeaustenremixed [https://www.instagram.com/janeaustenremixed] and you can contact us via janeaustenremixed@gmail.com.  We'll be back with Season Two's premiere episode on 4 May 2026, with Accomplished: A Georgie Darcy Novel by Amanda Quain. If you're reading along, we encourage you to buy secondhand or support your local independent bookshop, where possible.

The Listener Mailbox Episode (& Season 1 Reflections)

What if two friends started a podcast about Pride & Prejudice adaptations? What if Season 1 is finished and they have more things to say? What if they have your questions to answer? Melinda and Stefanie reflect on the first 12 adaptations discussed on Jane Austen Remixed and share their favourite moments, behind the scenes thoughts, and answer your questions. Links & Mentions If you would like to learn more about Napeleon's role in Persuasion, read this helpful article from Jane Austen's House about war in all her works [https://janeaustens.house/jane-austen/essays-on-austen/jane-austen-wartime-writer/].  The adaptation set in historical Korea is called Behind Five Willows written by June Hur. You can follow the author on Instagram to stay up-to-date about the release [https://www.instagram.com/junehwrites/?hl=en]. If you need subtitles or a transcript, these are available through Apple Podcasts. Please note, they are auto generated so we apologise in advance for it not correctly understanding our accents on certain words. As always you can find us (and our memes) on Instagram @janeaustenremixed [https://www.instagram.com/janeaustenremixed] and you can contact us via janeaustenremixed@gmail.com. We'll be on break for a little while, but we'll let you know when we'll be back. Keep an eye out for a bonus episode - where we cast members of the Marvel Cinematic Universe as characters in Pride & Prejudice - while we're on hiatus. Happy reading!