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Series 3, Episode 2 - Kobna Holdbrook - Smith

AuthorListening Books

NarratorKobna Holdbrook-Smith, Jessica Stone

SeriesThe Listening Books Podcast, Book 2

Duration38m

CategoriesAdult Non-Fiction, Biography and Autobiography

PublisherListening Books

VersionUnabridged

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From April 15, 2021

Actor and audiobook narrator Kobna Holdbrook-Smith talks about what it was like to voice Rivers of London as his first audiobook, what he had to unlearn to do voice work and how Frank Sinatra inspired his mic technique.

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