SANDY LERNER COLLECTION OPENS IN JANE AUSTEN VILLAGE:

SANDY LERNER COLLECTION OPENS IN JANE AUSTEN VILLAGE:; ITN ENGLAND: Hampshire: Chawton House: INT Following seq has woman's voice reading novel overlaid SLOW MOTION Country house as two young women dressed in period costume running towards past along corridor CS Mrs Gaskell book spine SLOW MOTION Young women running down stairs Statue seen thru window PULL FOCUS B/W STILL Jane Austen (Writer) Ends Sandy Lerner (American former computer-magnate) interviewed SOT - Talks about having only complete Jane Austen manuscript, describes her love of Austen's novels CMSs Painting of Chawton House in Austen's age (2 SHOTS) EXT GV Chawton House Smith along chatting to Lerner about house SOT LS Chawton House Smith along chatting to Lerner (not heard) INT Sandy Lerner (American former computer-magnate) interviewed SOT - Describes local resistance MS & CMS Paiting of Austen EXT Thatched cottages in village 'The Greyfriar' village pub INT Vox pops Local residents SLOW MOTION Empty room as young women along as woman's voice reading novel overlaid SOT Woman sitting reading at desk CMS Antique books on shelf CMS & GV Tapestry CS & CMS Text in Mary Wollstonecraft book 'Vindication of the Rights of Woman' Sandy Lerner (American former computer-magnate) interviewed SOT - Austen was writing against rich history going back 150-200 years Group of women dressed in period dresses dancing in circles (4 SHOTS) Jane Alderson (Chief Executive, Chawton House Library) interviewed SOT - We're not museum piece, we are living entity, it's important we have events & seminars, lecture programme, contemporary women writers Sandy Lerner (American former computer-magnate) interviewed SOT - Wonderful that JK Rowling is making all that money - wish she had written about a little girl SLOW MOTION Stairway...