Mrs Bennet has a problem - five of them, in fact. Not one of her daughters has managed to secure a husband. And with no boys in the family, when Mr Bennet dies, their house will be inherited by a cousin, leaving the female Bennets homeless.
And then who should arrive in the sleepy Hertfordshire town of Meryton but a pair of distinctly eligible bachelors: the charming Mr Bingley, with an income of several thousand pounds a year, and his enigmatic friend Mr Darcy...
A Noiser podcast production.
Narrated by Dame Julie Andrews
Written by Jane Austen
Recording Engineer: Sam Hamilton
Produced by Katrina Hughes
Script Supervisors: Dr Emmie Rose Price-Goodfellow, Ed Baranski and Duncan Barrett
Sound Supervisors: Tom Pink and Oliver Baines
Sound Design by Tom Pink
Audio Editing by Dorry Macaulay
Compositions: Dorry Macaulay
Music Performances by Dorry Macaulay, Oliver Baines, Mia Whittaker, and Moritz Flohr
Mix and Mastering: Tom Pink
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