AuthorListening Books
NarratorGail Pirkis, Hazel Wood, Jessica Stone
Duration45m
CategoriesAdult Non-Fiction, Biography and Autobiography
PublisherListening Books
VersionUnabridged
Gail Pirkis and Hazel Wood are founding editors of Slightly Foxed, the quarterly magazine and independent publishing house. As specialists in books that have stood the test of time even while falling out of fashion, Gail and Hazel bring us titles so good, they deserve to be heard as audiobooks, too.
Series 3, Episode 6 - Fiona Bennett and Michael Schaeffer
Author: Listening Books
Author Listening Books
Narrator Michael Schaeffer, Fiona Bennett, Jessica Stone
SeriesThe Listening Books Podcast, Book 6
Duration 43m
From Aug 12, 2021 'My reading experience with poetry is that I'm in the presence of some...body and we're in that kind of potentially ... it might be that slightly late night kitchen table moment where you've sort of got through all the news and the stuff and you actually enter into where you really are, and what's going on, and what you really n...
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Series 5, Episode 3 - Jane McDowell
Author: Listening Books
Author Listening Books
Narrator Jessica Stone, Jane Mcdowell
Duration 31m
Jessica Stone talks to audiobook narrator and actor Jane McDowell.
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Series 5, Episode 2 - Polly Lee
Author: Listening Books
Author Listening Books
Narrator Jessica Stone, Polly Lee
Duration 35m
Jessica Stone chats to Polly Lee, the narrator of the very successful series, The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani.
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The Listening Books Podcast - Series 1
Author: Listening Books
Author Listening Books
Narrator Various
SeriesThe Listening Books Podcast, Book 1
Duration 4h 45m
Featuring all episodes from series 1 of the podcast: Episode One: Horror Fiction - In this first episode, host Jessica Stone delves into the dingy depths of horror books with Claire Bell and Nik de Garis. Episode Two: 200 Years of Frankenstein - Abigail Jaggers tells Jessica all about the bizarre life of the writer Mary Shelley. Episode Three: C...
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Series 4, Episode 8 - Annie Aldington
Author: Listening Books
Author Listening Books
Narrator Annie Aldington, Jessica Stone
Duration 37m
Annie Aldington has voiced hundreds of audiobooks, and among them are some of the most popular titles in the Listening Books collection, including novels by Dilly Court, Martina Cole, Katie Price, Aoife Walsh, and Kitty Neale. Here Annie tells us how she happened into audiobook narration, shares her secret tricks for conquering difficult accents, a...
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Series 3, Episode 3 - Francis Spufford
Author: Listening Books, Francis Spufford
Author Listening Books, Francis Spufford
Narrator Francis Spufford, Jessica Stone
SeriesThe Listening Books Podcast, Book 3
Duration 47m
Author Francis Spufford talks about what it's been like to launch his new novel, Light Perpetual, during a pandemic, the many talents and accents required of audiobook narrator Imogen Church, the fondness he holds for his 'unlikable' characters, and why the narrator was especially important for his historical novel Golden Hill. To top it off, he de...
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Series 3, Episode 5 - David Gange
Author: Listening Books, David Gange
Author Listening Books, David Gange
Narrator David Gange, Jessica Stone
SeriesThe Listening Books Podcast, Book 5
Duration 41m
From Jul 15, 2021 'The kayak gives this incredible perspective on the world, where you are really embedded in the worlds of the species, you're surrounded by other animals, they don't respond to you in the way that they respond to humans on foot because obviously they are so much more skilled in and on the water than you are.' Writer and historia...
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Series 3, Episode 2 - Kobna Holdbrook - Smith
Author: Listening Books
Author Listening Books
Narrator Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Jessica Stone
SeriesThe Listening Books Podcast, Book 2
Duration 38m
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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Series 4, Episode 6 - Jonathan Whitelaw
Author: Listening Books, Jonathan Whitelaw
Author Listening Books, Jonathan Whitelaw
Narrator Jonathan Whitelaw, Jessica Stone
Duration 43m
Author Jonathan Whitelaw joins Jess for a cosy chat about cosy crime. He tells us how he landed such a fantastic narrator in Sid Sagar, how he approached character development in The Bingo Hall Detectives, why he chose the Lake District for the setting, and what we should be reading while we wait for his next book, The Village Hall Vendetta.
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The Listening Books Podcast Series 2
Author: Listening Books
Author Listening Books
Narrator Various
SeriesThe Listening Books Podcast, Book 2
Duration 6h 14m
Episode One - Bonus! Extra chat with Bleak Expectations creator Mark Evans Episode Two - Reading Roundup: Myths and Fairy Tales Reimagined Episode Three - Author Natalie Haynes Episode Four - Reading Roundup: Great Audiobook Narrators Episode Five - Audiobook Narrator Bronwen Price Episode Six - Reading Roundup: Books Even Better as Audiobooks...
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