Julie Andrews' Charming Interpretation on Jane Austen: Finest Audio Shows of the Week
This Week's Choice
Pride & Prejudice
Who better to retell the author's most beloved tale than her royal highness Julie Andrews? Although missing Colin Firth drenched, the screen legend is a wonderful and true storyteller of this classic love story about Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy. The series, which is broken down into two dozen plus installments, doesn't just celebrates the 250th anniversary of the author's birth – it’s Andrews’s ninetieth birthday also!
Widely available, new episodes each week
Grand Designs Deconstructed
Such is the strain in constructing your own large residence, this property series stands among the rare TV property shows where marital breakdown is common as opposed to an error. McCloud collaborates with the presenter in this pleasant companion series for dedicated followers – and reveals that he was close to opening up his personal funds for financially strained participants.
Available via Spotify, new installments each week
Woman’s Hour Guide to Life
On Sundays, Nuala McGovern Nuala McGovern a focused segment covering an individual subject with familiar voices and experts. She starts off on the theme of friendships – ways to create room for relationships and maintain contact – through conversations with author Dolly Alderton, Claire Cohen, Dr Samuel and Dr Franco. The tone is chatty, useful and, most importantly, reassuring.
Via BBC Sounds, weekly episodes
Music, Money & Mayhem
Including Pink Floyd and Blur, the label was home to a deluge of prominent British bands. This podcast led by the host will certainly please audio fans and finance experts, as it effectively outlines the company's downfall via interviews with the likes of Pet Shop Boy Neil Tennant and debated ex-chairman Guy Hands.
Accessible on many platforms, episodes weekly
Coining It
Led by Goodall, this latest production appears to be it might be another run-of-the-mill crypto crime story. Gladly, this tale of a man who found a digital flaw offering infinite cash and propelled him from the seaside town to Dubai emerges as a vibrant and thoroughly enjoyable adventure – if clearly a warning tale.
Widely available, episodes weekly
