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Being custodian of a literary legacy of a worldwide significance is no easy task in today's global society. Professor Kathryn Sutherland, of Oxford University and Jane Austen's House Museum, and Ann Dinsdale, Principle Curator of the Bronte Parsonage Museum, discuss the daily delights and frequent challenges of looking after the UK's cultural heritage for present and future generations. The voracious international auction market for Bronte and Austen letters, manuscripts and other memorabilia means important artefacts are in danger of becoming scattered across the globe, in the hands of well-funded institutes or private collectors - far from Haworth and Chawton.

In their conversation, Sutherland and Dinsdale will attempt to answer the question: what is the reality of keeping alive the flames of the nation's greatest writers in the 21st century?