In this delightful double bill narrator Alison Larkin's AudioFile Earphones award-winning recording of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice are followed by songs from Regency England to give listeners a sense of what after dinner family entertainment might have sounded like in Jane Austen's time.
Recorded in a drawing room not unlike the Bennets' a young lady who sounds suspiciously like Mary Bennet sings 'The Lonely Ash Grove' 'Ye Banks and Braes' and 'Down by the Salley Gardens'.