Oct 25, 2021
What a thrill it was to chat with Robin Whitten, founder and editor of AudioFile Magazine. I rely on their reviews for all of the audiobooks I check out at my library (yes! You can check out audiobooks at your library). Today, Robin and I chatted about how a narrator can bring you deeper into a story or drag you further out of it, how a good narrator can redeem an average book (and vice versa) and why the movie version of The Golden Compass didn’t work. If you have never read The Golden Compass, I highly recommend you take Robin’s advice and experience it on audio. It’s a full cast production and it is truly something special.
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Host: Julie Strauss
Guest: Robin Whitten
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Discussed in this episode:
The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman
His Dark Materials Series by Phillip Pullman
Call for the Dead: A George Smiley Novel by John LeCarré
Kate Winslet narrated audiobooks:
The Twits, The Minpins, and The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl
You’re a Bad Man, Mr. Gum by Andy Stanton
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
His Dark Materials television series
Other audiobooks narrated by Sean Barrett (voice of lorick Byrnison)
Neil Gaiman self-narrated audiobooks
Always is the final book in the story of Felix, the hero of Morris Gleitzman’s Once, Then, Now, After, Soon, and Maybe
The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny
The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie, read by Alfred Molina and a Full Cast
The Iliad, narrated by Anton Lesser
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Discussed in our Patreon Segment
The AudioFile Magazine Golden Voices
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