Dame Julie Andrews' Wonderful Take on Austen's Work: The Best Broadcasts Weekly
This Week's Choice
Pride & Prejudice
Who better to recount Austen's best-loved story compared to her royal highness Julie Andrews? Although missing Colin Firth drenched, the screen legend serves as a delightful and faithful voice of the timeless love story centered on Elizabeth Bennet along with Mr Darcy. The series, divided into 25 episodes, not simply honors the quarter-millennial of Austen’s birth – it’s Andrews’s 90th year as well!
Widely available, episodes weekly
Grand Designs Deconstructed
So great is the pressure in constructing your own mega-home, Grand Designs is one of the few television home programs where marital breakdown is a feature instead of a flaw. The host teams up with Greg James for this friendly spin-off for dedicated followers – and confesses that he came on the verge of dipping into his personal funds for budget-challenged participants.
Spotify, new installments each week
Woman’s Hour Guide to Life
Each Sunday, the presenter leads a special episode covering a specific issue using recognized experts and specialists. She starts off on the theme of friendships – ways to create room for relationships and keep in touch – by interviewing Dolly Alderton, Claire Cohen, therapist Samuel and Dr Marisa G Franco. The tone is chatty, helpful and, most importantly, reassuring.
BBC Sounds, episodes weekly
Music, Money & Mayhem
Including Pink Floyd and Blur, the label featured a deluge of prominent British bands. This production led by Chris Atkins will certainly satisfy music enthusiasts and business heads, as it effectively outlines EMI's failure by means of conversations including Tennant and debated ex-chairman Hands.
Accessible on many platforms, new episodes each week
Coining It
Presented by Lewis Goodall, this new series seems like it could be a typical cryptocurrency narrative. Fortunately, this story concerning a person who uncovered a cryptocurrency error that suggested endless money and propelled him from the seaside town to the Middle East proves to be a vibrant and thoroughly enjoyable caper – though undoubtedly a warning tale.
Available broadly, new episodes each week
