In Jane Austen's Footsteps with Gyles Brandreth airs this week on Channel 5.
The broadcaster explores the life of the novelist and examines the locations that inspired her, as well as uncovering the real events behind some of her greatest stories.
He begins by visiting Austen's birthplace of Steventon in Hampshire and the church there where her father was rector, as well as the house in Chawton where she wrote all her novels.