V/O Andrew Davies (AD14)

AS to Jane Austen’s own voice, I look the decision and Sue Birtwistle the producer agreed with me, we tried to keep it out, because to have a third person, past-tense voice over in drama tends to take the drama away in a funny sort of way makes it feel it happened a long time ago and everything’s been settled and nothing new can happen, but on the other hand

that means you’re losing some of the most famous bits of P&P so some of the very good lines we’ve fed back into the dialogue as the opening of the book for example

VOICE OF ACTRESS:

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a large good fortune, must be in want of a wife”

Additional notes in pen:

Annotation 1: To the left of the first paragraph of type-written text, beginning AS there is a handwritten X in a circle.

Ref code: Script1 Title: Extract from a television script for the BBC documentary Pride and Prejudice: from Page to Screen (1995), p. 3. Date: 1995 Format: .png Source: CT04/A/04/002 From CT04 Papers of Sue Birtwistle, Television Producer. Held at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. https://specialcollections.catalogue.dmu.ac.uk/records/CT04/A/04/002