Pride and Prejudice

Drama of the Week

BBC

Drama, Fiction

3.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Radio 4 celebrates 250 years of Jane Austen with fresh, funny, and female-focused adaptations of Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. Expect heartbreak, love, hilarity, and the enduring power of sisterhood.

Pride and Prejudice the iconic love story between Miss Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Fitzwilliam Darcy, and a delightful portrayal of a family. It perfectly conjures up the period, and the pressure on women to find husbands. A tapestry of unforgettable characters and wonderfully funny.

Dramatised by award winning writer Rachel Joyce

Jane Austen ..... Tamsin Greig Elizabeth ..... Isabella Laughland Darcy ..... Luke Thompson Mr Bennet ..... Miles Jupp Mrs Bennet ..... Rosie Cavaliero Jane ..... Lucy Doyle Bingley ..... Louis Landau Wickham ..... Toby Regbo Lady Catherine ..... Adjoa Andoh Lydia ..... Kitty O'Sullivan Kitty ..... Gaia Wise Mary ..... Imogen Front Mr Collins ..... Josh Bryant Jones Charlotte ..... Sasha McCabe Caroline Bingley ..... Catherine Bailey

Directed by Tracey Neale

Dramatised by Rachel Joyce

Rachel Joyce is a best-selling author and award winning audio drama writer. Her audio work includes the entire Bronte canon for Radio 4. Her first novel, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry has been adapted for both film and stage. The sold out Chichester Festival Theatre Musical of Harold Fry's story opens at the Theatre Royal Haymarket on the 29th January. Rachel's latest novel, The Homemade God, was published in February this year.

Produced and Directed by Tracey Neale Sound by Andrew Garratt and Sam Dickinson Production Co-Ordinator, Luke MacGregor Casting Manager, Alex Curran A BBC Studios Production.

Transcript

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts.
0:07.2	Marianne has not the heart to tell Eleanor how worried she is by the lack of poetry in Edward's soul.
0:14.7	Tamzing Greg brings Jane Austen's work to life with pride and prejudice and sense and sensibility.
0:20.6	Reports soon follow that Mr Bingley is very agreeable.
0:24.4	And Julie Andrews narrates a new series, Jane Austen Stories.
0:28.9	You take delight in vexing me.
0:30.9	You have no compassion on my poor nerves.
0:33.7	Celebrate Jane Austen.
0:35.3	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:37.8	This is Drama of the Week.
0:42.2	Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
0:45.8	Dramatized by Rachel Joyce, part one.
0:54.1	It is a truth universally acknowledged
0:58.1	that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
1:05.4	Oh, my dear! Have you heard?
1:09.0	Netherfield Park is to be let at last.
1:11.5	This truth is so fixed in the minds of local families
1:14.6	that he is considered the rightful property of one of their daughters
1:18.7	the very moment he moves in.
1:21.2	Well, do you not want to know who has taken it?
1:25.1	You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing?
1:29.3	Only a young man of huge fortune.
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