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Andrew Davies Remembers... Pride and Prejudice

Andrew Davies discusses how he turned Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice into the costume drama series that had a whole nation of viewers gripped.

A truth universally acknowledged is that screenwriter Andrew Davies is one of television’s great ‘adapters’, and here he discusses one of his most successful literary challenges and how he turned Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice into the costume drama series that had a whole nation of viewers gripped.

Andrew looks back on how he first approached the novel, describes his processes and explains how he came to make Colin Firth’s Mr Darcey take a swim in a lake without taking his shirt off, thereby creating one of television’s most iconic scenes.

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14 minutes

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Wed 3 Jan 2024 22:00

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Role Contributor
Interviewed Guest Andrew Davies
Series Producer Simon Goretzki
Producer Shelley Talton

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