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With her sister Jane laid up in bed with a cold, Lizzy becomes better acquainted with Mr Darcy, pushing back at his unrealistic expectations of the accomplishments a young woman should have mastered. But the more she resists him, the more Darcy seems to admire her - much to the irritation of Bingley's sister Caroline.

The next morning, it's a full house of Bennets at Netherfield, as the girls' mother appears with her remaining three daughters in tow. Lizzy cringes at the impression her embarrassing family must be making on Bingley... and, perhaps more to the point, on Darcy  too.

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 Miri Latham

Audio Editing by Dorry Macaulay

Compositions: Dorry Macaulay

Music Performances by Dorry Macaulay, Oliver Baines, Mia Whittaker, and Moritz Flohr.

Mix and Mastering: Ralph Tittley

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