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Listening Books depends on the generous help our readers give, on a voluntary basis, to record our educational audiobooks. Our Sound Learning project records titles which cannot be sourced in the commercial market. The titles support the National Curriculum and are extremely valuable to our young listeners who are studying. Our readers give up their spare time during the day to come in and record for us simply because they love books and because they want to make a contribution to our service.

Listening Books would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our readers, past and present – without them, our library stock would be much less varied and interesting.

Becoming a volunteer reader for Listening Books

We mainly use trained actors but we will consider working with anyone who has the appropriate experience and can spare the time. To volunteer please submit a sample of your work for consideration on CD or email MP3 clips to studios@listening-books.org.uk. Ideally the recording should contain at least two examples of your voice, reading different book genres (e.g. fiction, non-fiction, children's).

Reading for us

Readers will be required to record the books at our offices at 12 Lant Street, mainly during the hours of 9am-5pm Monday to Friday. Reasonable expenses will be reimbursed.

We currently have some books in our studios that we would love to record but they require accents we don’t have available from our current set of readers. If you or anyone you know is a trained actor and is able to volunteer some of their time (even if it is only a couple of hours each week) to complete one of the following books, in the following accents, please contact our studios.

The books and accents are:

Title

Author

Requirements

Green Days By The River M Anthony West Indian (Trinidad)/young adult male
Postcards Annie Proulx Mid-Western American male
Invisible Man R Ellison American (Deep South)/ male 
A House for Mr Biswas  VS Naipaul Indian or West Indian/ male (narrator is of Indo-Trinidadian descent)
South Africa in the Years of Apartheid Sieborger et al Various Regional South African/ male
Shortcuts Raymond Carver Generic American adult male
The First 49 Stories Ernest Hemingway Generic American adult male

Please send your audition CDs to:

Studios, Listening Books, 12 Lant Street, London SE1 1QH
or email MP3 clips to: studios@listening-books.org.uk

 
 

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Education

We support the National Curriculum from Key Stage 2 to
A-Level, providing set texts and study guides.


Supported by the National Lottery throught the Big Lottery Fund General enquiries: 020 7407 9417 / info@listening-books.org.uk
Library enquiries: 020 7234 0522 / library@listening-books.org.uk
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Registered charity number: 264221 Patron: Stephen Fry President: The Rt. Hon. Lady Warnock DBE
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