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The six-part series, titled The Assassin, sees Keeley Hawes and Freddie Highmore play mother and son.

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Miss Austen is a period drama with a difference, telling the real-life story of Jane Austen's lesser-known sister

Arguably the greatest act of literary vandalism in history becomes masterly TV, as we see Cassandra Austen destroy thousands of her sister Jane’s letters following her death – out of love

3/5 There’s much to admire in this series about Jane and her sister Cassandra, who inexplicably burned many of the writer’s letters, but it cannot quite nail the great author’s piercing satire

A recap of Miss Austen episode 1

3/5 This split-timeline examination of the Austen sisters’ lives fails to get the pulse racing

The great literary mystery about the novelist’s burned letters unravels in this period drama. Plus: the dark days of Boyzone revealed. Here’s everything to watch this evening

THE SATURDAY INTERVIEW: A new BBC drama explores one of the most vexing acts of sabotage in literary history: the decision by Jane Austen’s sister Cassandra to burn nearly all the writer’s letters after her death. Keeley Hawes and the cast, as well as the series director, talk to Katie…