The Writer and the Man

I have recorded three or four of Patrick O’Brian’s marvellous Aubrey/Maturin novels set during the Napoleonic Wars as well as his first published novel The Catalans. His writing is rich and his characters strong. So I was thrilled to be entrusted with...

NOT FOR THE FAINT-HEARTED

What a privilege to record this extraordinary book by heart surgery Professor Stephen Westaby. His first book Fragile Lives (which I also recorded) is passionate and powerful but The Knifeā€™s Edge is darker and angrier. His battle trying save lives (often desperately...

THE BEST KIND OF FEEDBACK

It’s great to get feedback especially when it’s from the writer of the book you’re recording. I am recording the Hillsbridge Sagas by Janet Tanner – a four part series that follows the Hall family in the mining community of Hillsbridge in...

DARLING WINSTON

I am thrilled to be recording David Lough’s new book WINSTON DARLING – the letters between Churchill and his beautiful American mother Jennie. The letters start when Winston is only eight and continue until Jennie’s death forty years later. The...

NORTHUMBERLAND RULES!

I think you’d need to be of a certain age to remember Alan Melville. In the late 50s he seemed to be everywhere on television (only one channel then, and that in black-and-white) from The Brains Trust, What’s my Line? and a particular favourite of mine...