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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