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Austen stands the test of time

Last Night's TV: It is a truth, generally acknowledged, that burds go ga-ga for costumed adaptations of old bodice-rippers. Lost In Austen is just such a chick-lit-rom-com concoction: all stately quadrilles in Georgian mansions.

Lost In Austen ITV1, 9pm Who Do You Think You Are? BBC1, 9pm It is a truth, generally acknowledged, that burds go ga-ga for costumed adaptations of old bodice-rippers.