Jane Austen's Sanditon 'sexed up' in Andrew Davies adaptation

Screenwriter says he used all the material from Austen’s work in first half of first episode

Jane Austen novels are not known for scenes of nude men jumping into the sea or secret sex acts between lovers in forests.

But for the screenwriter Andrew Davies, who is transforming Austen’s final, incomplete novel, Sanditon, into a TV series, it would be a shame not to add them in.

Sanditon will air on ITV in the autumn.

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