Two years ago I had the pleasure of releasing my first major audio production. What started off as a bit of a lock down folly turned into a four hour, four part full cast production of my favourite book – Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen.

I’d written the script as a means of creativity in the otherwise dark and depressing times in 2020 where the world was closed, and creative pursuits in short supply. A group of fellow amateur and professional actors had pooled together over zoom throughout the baking hot summer of 2020 to record Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, but while that lay in the editing suite, I got my teeth into a much bigger project.

White Cobra kindly arranged a read-through of my work-in-progress script of P&P, and at the end of the second video call, everyone asked when we were going into production!

Had I realised the scale of the project when it began, I may have wimped out… after months of recording over video calls, and even more months of editing, the final audio production started streaming on YouTube and Spotify on 17 Dec 2021 – Jane Austen’s birthday, no less!

Now, two years later, it has amassed over 70k views and dozens of lovely comments. I’m not the greatest at blowing my own trumpet, but seeing as I adapted, directed, edited AND starred in Pride & Prejudice, I think I’ll allow myself time to take the plaudits for this one!

It may have been a long project, but I did enjoy every second of it, and learned a great deal too, in terms of script building, directing and sound editing – which I’d never done before! Listening back now, are there changes I would make? Of course, hindsight is a wonderful thing!

I’m working on another Jane Austen adaptation for White Cobra, and I can’t wait to kick off the audio madness all over again from the new year!