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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