PRIDE AND PREJUDICE 12 part BBC classic serial from 1975

Austin Day April 28, 2016 at 8:04am

Many thanks Mike - it's a very lively production and a good quality recording.

Are you 100% sure it's the 1950 version? I don't recognise Hugh Burden's voice as Darcy.

Apologies in advance if I'm wrong.

There was also a 6 episode 1975 CS that, I think, has been released on TS as 12 ~25min episodes. A USA rebroadcast was shared by SadSack and a UK one by KidCurry over on OTRplus (http://otrplus.com/viewtopic.php?t=19537 http://otrplus.com/viewtop...).

BBC R4 16/11/1975 - 21/12/1975

Pride and Prejudice
by JANE AUSTEN
dramatised in six parts by DENIS CONSTAN-DUROS
with Elizabeth Counsell as Elizabeth Bennet, Frank Barrie as Darcy, Eleanor Summerfield as Mrs Bennet, Robert Sansom as Mr Bennet.
Part 1

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a fortune must be in want of a wife ...
Narrator ... MADI HEAD
Lydia ... SHERIDAN FITZGERALD
Kitty ... SUE WITHERS
Jane ... GABRIELLE DRAKE
Bingley ... ALAN MOORE
Charlotte Lucas ... JUNE BARRIE
Sir William Lucas ... TIMOTHY KIGHTLEY
Miss Bingley ... CHARLOTTE CORNWELL
Mr Collins ... MICHAEL ROTHWELL
Music composed and conducted by SIDNEY SAGER
Producer BRIAN MILLER (Bristol)

Austin Day > Austin Day April 28, 2016 at 10:08am

You can hear Mr Darcy (in conversation with Elizabeth) in episode 11 ~7:40.

I'm fairly certain that isn't dear old Hugh Burden.
Mike Stevens > Austin Day April 28, 2016 at 12:37pm

You are indeed correct. This is 12 part version of the 1975 6 part classic serial version. It was broadcast as a 12 part version in the USA on public radio and was recorded by sadsack.

Thanks Sadsack

I have changed the date to 1975 at the above link
Mike Stevens > Mike Stevens April 28, 2016 at 7:41pm

I asked the collector I got it from and he said he got it off youtube and another collector said said he recognized some of the actor's voices as being the 50's version but I still think its the 1975 version but do not know for sure.
Austin Day > Mike Stevens April 29, 2016 at 4:33am

Thanks Mike.

I've been in contact with SadSack and compared these recordings to ones that were shared on OTRPlus. To within a second, the episodes match in length and seem to be identical, just re-encoded. The introductory music is very recognisable.

Here are episode 1 & 12 from OTRplus 2009 (http://otrplus.com/viewtopic.php?t=10343), 40kbps MP3.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/gnyiw4

https://www.sendspace.com/file/rgjc8c

Genome's "Unknown: Jane Austen" made me laugh - perhaps the BBC don't have any idea who she was, but we do!
Mike Stevens > Austin Day April 29, 2016 at 11:55am

Thanks so much for clearing the mystery up. Its still a great version and thanks to sadsack for recording it.

Guy January 9, 2016 at 10:33am

Thanks Very Much!!!

Guy

Robert January 5, 2016 at 7:56am

Thanks, sounds interesting !!

David Holman January 5, 2016 at 6:54am

Thank you Mike! I'm really pleased to have this:)

David

Gayle Crane January 4, 2016 at 6:47pm

Thank you!

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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE 12 part BBC classic serial from 1975

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