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Simon Vance

Simon VanceSimon Vance began his recording career at the age of 6 when he read Winnie-the-Pooh aloud into a microphone. At age 11 he was given his own tape recorder and mike. “I was very much into the BBC Radio comedy shows, so most of what I did was to make up silly stories and record them using lots of silly voices.” He laughs. “That set the stage for my career.” In his 26 years as a narrator, the Englishman with the gorgeous voice and remarkable facility for characterization has recorded hundreds of books for many producers. The ever-growing stack of Earphones and Audies encourages Vance, who, despite his popularity, says, “I’m very judgmental, and I often find it too painful to listen to my own work. I only accepted that I was any good at this after getting my first Audie Award a couple of years ago." Read More...

John Lee

John LeeJohn Lee’s explanation for why he narrates so many long books is “stamina.” “My dad worked as a carpenter until he was 79. The rest of the men in his family were blacksmiths. Some of my cousins are bricklayers and pipe fitters. We’ve got stamina.” His trademark rich, smooth voice with its hint of a growl turns the word into a seduction. “I’ve done farm laboring, so I know that narrating audiobooks ain’t as hard as picking fruit. But it is effort. It gets insanely claustrophobic. Not because of the size of the studio, although you do work in tiny rooms, but because you’re concentrating so hard.” He says that his voice--English with an echo of the family’s Irish heritage--will hold out “for a pretty long recording day. Maybe 90 minutes at a stretch for five to six hours.” Read More...


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Jenny Agutter
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Josephine Bailey
Dylan Baker
Joe Barrett
Sean Barrett
Joyce Bean
Paul Boehmer
Katherine Borowitz
Daniel Bostick
Dennis Boutsikaris
Humphrey Bower
Alyssa Bresnahan
Scott Brick
Blair Brown
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Cassandra Campbell
Len Cariou
Barbara Caruso
David Case
Marc Cashman
Orlagh Cassidy
Maxwell Caulfield
David Colacci
Ralph Cosham
C.J. Critt
Steven Crossley
D
Jim Dale
Cynthia Darlow
Jonathan Davis
Robertson Dean
Rupert Degas
Norman Dietz
Gerard Doyle
William Dufris
Bernadette Dunne
E
Susan Ericksen
F
Richard Ferrone
Peter Jay Fernandez
Anna Fields
Laura Flanagan
Kate Fleming
Patricia R. Floyd
Mel Foster
G
Boyd Gaines
L.J. Ganser
Grover Gardner
Daniel Gerroll
Dion Graham
Holter Graham
Emily Gray
Adam Grupper
George Guidall
H
Anthony Heald
Johnny Heller
Edward Herrmann
Paul Hecht
Dick Hill
Kate Hood
William Hootkins
Stephen Hoye
I
Jennifer Ikeda
Judith Ivey
J
Derek Jacobi
Martin Jarvis
Neville Jason
Michael Jayston
Simon Jones
K
Garrison Keillor
Katherine Kellgren
Lorelei King
Michael Kramer
L
Jenna Lamia
Rosalyn Landor
Nick Landrum
Lisette Lecat
John Lee
Virginia Leishman
Anton Lesser
M
Carrington MacDuffie
Miriam Margolyes
Wanda McCaddon
Carolyn McCormick
John McDonough
Ron McLarty
Jennifer Mendenhall
Laural Merlington
Paul Michael
Robin Miles
Dan John Miller
Lizan Mitchell
Alfred Molina
Christina Moore
Cassandra Morris
Frank Muller
N
Jim Norton
O
Daniel Oreskes
P
Steven Pacey
Will Patton
Lisa Renee Pitts
David Pittu
Richard Poe
Davina Porter
Simon Prebble
R
Robert Ramirez
Lorna Raver
Kate Reading
Maggi-Meg Reed
Roger Rees
Christian Rodska
Richard Rohan
Barbara Rosenblat
Stefan Rudnicki
Nelson Runger
S
Andrew Sachs
Campbell Scott
Alan Sklar
Janet Song
Scott Sowers
Tom Stechschulte
Jenny Sterlin
Nick Sullivan
T
Lynne Thigpen
Stephen Thorne
Suzanne Toren
Lorraine Toussaint
Nancy Travis
Patrick Tull
Anne Twomey
V
Jennifer Van Dyck
Simon Vance
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Tom Weiner
Barrett Whitener
Jeff Woodman
Oliver Wyman
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Michael York


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