PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

A new version of Austen’s classic are part of renewed interest in classics on audio. The BBC Radio production is not dramatized with music and sound effects as many of their productions are. Hodge’s voice has a light, clear quality. She does well with the ladies’ voices but make little attempt to differentiate among them. Hodge draws fine portraits of the young Bennet girls, their parents and suitors. Her narration involves the listener in the eighteenth-century drawing-room society. R.F.W. ©AudioFile, Portland, Maine [Published: JAN 96]