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Wonderful narration is a skill which not everyone is up to: Actors must be able to maintain multiple characters realistically, while keeping the story going and the listener engaged. Here we highlight some of the well known actors who have lent their talent to audiobooks, allowing you to enjoy an intimate experience with the star and their voice.


Martin Freeman
From love-sick Tim in The Office to Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit, Martin Freeman is now a familiar British face and voice on the big and small screen. He won the Best Supporting Actor BAFTA award in 2011 for his role as Watson in the TV series Sherlock, and also starred as Arthur Dent in the film adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Freeman narrates four of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's series audiobooks.

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Matt Dillon
Originally a teen star in Tex, The Outsiders and Rumble Fish, Matt Dillon has since matured into one of Hollywood's most enjoyable actors to watch on screen with a wonderful versatility in his acting range. Dillon struck gold with the critics with his performance in the uncompromising Gus van Sant film about drug addicts, Drugstore Cowboy. Other films include To Die For, Wild Things, There's Something About Mary and, for his work in the Best Picture Academy Award winner Crash, Dillon received a long-overdue Oscar nomination, as Best Supporting Actor.



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Jeremy Irons
Quintessentially English actor Irons has starred in several highly acclaimed films, including Reversal of Fortune, Die Hard with a Vengeance, Lolita, and Being Julia. Following his characterisation of Scar in The Lion King (a ridiculously scary villain for a Disney film), we think he has a wonderful voice for audio narration.

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Dan Stevens
One of our favourite and most prolific narrators at audible.co.uk, Dan Stevens is now most famous for his role as Matthew Crawley in the ITV drama Downton Abbey. Dan's other notable TV roles include Edward Ferrars in the BBC adaptation of Sense and Sensibility and Nick Guest in the BBC adaptation of The Line Of Beauty.

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Laura Linney
One of those actresses who is strong in everything she does, yet doesn't take the limelight, you'll recognise Laura from films such as Lorenzo's Oil, Primal Fear, Absolute Power, The Truman Show, You Can Count on Me, The House of Mirth, Mystic River and Love, Actually.

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Joe Thomas
Best known for his role as Simon Cooper in the E4 sitcom The Inbetweeners, Joe Thomas was the perfect casting for Ben Master's wildly entertaining debut novel. It's the last night of University - Eliot and his friends must make a reckoning with everything that has gone by. Here it comes: the pints, the shots, the pubs, the clubs, the jokes, the snogs, the fumbles, the memories, the secrets, the lies told, the 3AM hard truths, the bubble bursting, the tearing up of everything, the start and rush of the rest of your life.



The Stars of Beatrix Potter
a collection of four original Beatrix Potter stories that all feature in the movie Miss Potter, read by Renée Zellweger, Ewan McGregor, Emily Watson and Lloyd Owen.





Hilary Swank
In Pack of Two, the author of the acclaimed best seller Drinking: A Love Story tackles a different sort of relationship. Two-time Academy Award-winning actress Hilary Swank (Boys Don't Cry, Million Dollar Baby) guides us into the life of Caroline Knapp who, after losing both parents to cancer and breaking off a two-decade long relationship with alcohol in the span of one year, struggles - and succeeds - to redefine her world. The unlikely solution to Knapp's task was found in the form of a dog named Lucille.

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The Latest from Laura Linney

The Latest from Joe Thomas

The Stars of Beatrix Potter

The Latest from Hilary Swank

Dramas with an all-star cast

  • The Autumn Garden
    Written by: Lillian Hellman
    Narrated by: Eric Stoltz, Scott Wolf, Mary Steenburgen, Julie Harris, Roxanne Hart, David Clennon, Glenne Headly
    1.00 (1 ratings)
    A Chekhovian comedy from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lillian Hellman about the sad and funny frailties of human existence. As the summer of 1949 draws to a close, a group of middle-aged friends are gathering for their annual retreat at a genteel Southern resort. An acquaintance from the past thrusts himself into the yearly gathering, forcing them to re-examine their mundane yet seemingly idyllic existence, the opportunities they've lost, and the lives that have passed them by.
    Performance 2 hrs and 19 mins
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    Eric Stoltz, Scott Wolf, Mary Steenburgen, Julie Harris, Roxanne Hart, David Clennon, Glenne Headly
    £5.39
  • Die, Snow White! Die, Damn You!: A Very Grimm Tale
    Written by: Yuri Rasovsky
    Narrated by: Simon Helberg, Barry Creyton, Kate Burton, Robin Sachs, Armin Shimerman, Sandra Oh, Ned Schmidtke, Melinda Peterson, Keith Szarabajka
    3.30 (7 ratings)
    With the premiere of two new film versions of the Snow White tale, Blackstone enters the fray with its own adult, edgy, and not altogether serious full-cast exposé of fairy-taledom. At last it can be told! Was Snow White really as pure as the driven snow? Did her allegedly wicked stepmother get a bum rap from the Grimm brothers? What went on behind the closed Dutch doors of the dwarves' cottage? How many handsome princes does it take to screw in a light bulb?
    Performance 2 hrs and 4 mins
    Die, Snow White! Die, Damn You!: A Very Grimm Tale
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    Simon Helberg, Barry Creyton, Kate Burton, Robin Sachs, Armin Shimerman, Sandra Oh, Ned Schmidtke, Melinda Peterson, Keith Szarabajka
    £10.69
  • Dracula [Audible Edition]
    Written by: Bram Stoker
    Narrated by: Alan Cumming, Tim Curry, Simon Vance, Katherine Kellgren, Susan Duerden, John Lee, Graeme Malcolm, Steven Crossley, Simon Prebble, James Adams
    3.90 (97 ratings)
    The modern audience hasn't had a chance to truly appreciate the unknowing dread that readers would have felt when reading Bram Stoker's original 1897 manuscript. Most modern productions employ campiness or sound effects to try to bring back that gothic tension, but we've tried something different. By returning to Stoker's original storytelling structure - a series of letters and journal entries voiced by Jonathan Harker, Dr. Van Helsing, and other characters - with an all-star cast of narrators, we've sought to recapture its originally intended horror and power.
    Audiobook 15 hrs and 28 mins
    Dracula [Audible Edition]
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    Alan Cumming, Tim Curry, Simon Vance, Katherine Kellgren, Susan Duerden, John Lee, Graeme Malcolm, Steven Crossley, Simon Prebble, James Adams
    £23.19
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  • Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales
    Written by: Nelson Mandela (editor)
    Narrated by: Samuel L. Jackson, Whoopi Goldberg, Matt Damon, Alan Rickman
    4.00 (25 ratings)
    Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales is an audiobook benefiting children orphaned and impacted by HIV/AIDS in South Africa, featuring Gillian Anderson, Benjamin Bratt, LeVar Burton, Ricardo Chavira, Don Cheadle, Matt Damon, Whoopi Goldberg, Sean Hayes, Hugh Jackman, Samuel L. Jackson, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Debra Messing, Helen Mirren, Parminder Nagra, Sophie Okonedo, CCH Pounder, and Alan Rickman.
    Audiobook 3 hrs and 45 mins
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    Samuel L. Jackson, Whoopi Goldberg, Matt Damon, Alan Rickman
    £9.59
  • War and Peace (Dramatised)
    Written by: Leo Tolstoy
    Narrated by: Full Cast
    4.00 (74 ratings)
    A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation features a star cast including Leo McKern, Simon Russell Beale, Emily Mortimer, and Nicola Pagett, and over two hours of specially composed music.
    Performance 9 hrs and 12 mins
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    Full Cast
    £18.49
  • The History Boys (Dramatised)
    Written by: Alan Bennett
    Narrated by: Richard Griffiths, Clive Merrison, Frances de la Tour
    4.40 (51 ratings)
    Richard Griffiths, Clive Merrison, and Frances de la Tour star as part of the National Theatre cast. At a boys' grammar school in Sheffield, eight boys are being coached for the Oxbridge entrance exams. It is the mid-eighties, and the main concern of the unruly bunch of bright sixth-formers is getting out, starting university and starting life.
    Audiobook 2 hrs and 31 mins
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    Richard Griffiths, Clive Merrison, Frances de la Tour
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More Big Name Narrators

Alan Cumming Alan Rickman Alfred Molina Andrew Sachs Anne Hathaway Benedict Cumberbatch Bill Nighy Caroline Quentin Casey Affleck Clive Mantle Cynthia Nixon David Tennant David Walliams Dawn French Derek Jacobi Emilia Fox Elijah Wood Elizabeth McGovern Gwyneth Paltrow Helena Bonham Carter Sir Ian McKellen Imelda Staunton Jeremy Irons Jim Broadbent Johnny Depp Dame Judi Dench Juliet Stevenson Kate Winslet Kenneth Branagh Lou Diamond Phillips Meryl Streep Michael Caine Nina Wadia Nathaniel Parker Rosamund Pike Samuel L. Jackson Simon Callow Stephen Fry Thandie Newton Tim Curry Susan Sarandon Wil Wheaton Whoopi Goldberg