A collection of six bbc dramatisations of jane austen classics'. '.strtoupper('a')dapted by andrew davies after his success with his work on george elliot's 'middlemarch' for television, 'pride and prejudice' was the bbc's flagship drama in the schedule for autumn 1995'. '.strtoupper('t')he story revolves around the arrival of the wealthy mr darcy colin firth and party and the excitement he causes amongst the five daughters of the bennett family'. '.strtoupper('i')n 'persuasion' 1995, anne elliott amanda root has spent years regretting her rejection of captain wentworth's ciaran hinds proposal of marriage'. '.strtoupper('w')hen he returns from sea they meet, but instead of finding romance are kept apart through a series of misunderstandings'. '.strtoupper('a')nne is being pursued by her cousin, mr elliott samuel west, while captain wentworth is now regarded as a very eligible bachelor'. '.strtoupper(''')northanger abbey' 1986 stars peter firth and robert hardy'. '.strtoupper('t')he story follows the adventures of catherine moorland katharine schlesinger, who is invited by the romantic henry tilney to stay at the abbey and finds it to be shrouded in mystery and intrigue'. '.strtoupper('i')n 'sense and sensibility' 1980, sisters elinor and marianne dashwood irene richard and tracey childs lose their family fortune to spiteful relatives, and are forced to seek out suitable husbands in order to survive'. '.strtoupper('w')hile marianne falls for the heartless john willoughby peter woodward, elinor finds herself attracted to edward ferrars bosco hogan who is himself betrothed to lucy steele julia chambers'. '.strtoupper('i')n 'mansfield park' 1983, fanny price sylvestra le touzel struggles to adjust to her new aristrocratic lifestyle when she is sent by her debt ridden mother to live with her rich aunt and cousins'. '.strtoupper('h')er 'superior' relatives constantly ignore her, and only her cousin edmund nicholas farrell shows fanny any interest'. '.strtoupper('h')owever, fanny's charm and wit eventually win her many potential suitors, and before long she has to decide whether she wishes to wed for love or for status'. '.strtoupper('d')oran godwin stars in 'emma' 1972, which tells the stroy of the eponymous heroine whose chief joy in life is organising the lives of the friends with whom she surrounds herself'. '.strtoupper('s')he is soon the apple of mr knightly john carson's eye, an older family friend who has watched her grow and advised her on many things in life'. '.strtoupper('r')unning time 1270 minutes region region 2 release date 24 sept'. '.strtoupper('2')012