An increasing number of audiobooks are recorded remotely in personal recording studios in narrators’ homes. Raconteurs Audio LLP is a creative partnership of professional audiobook narrators, Tim Bruce, Liam Gerrard, James Gillies, Helen Lloyd, Nigel Patterson, Greg Wagland and Malk Williams. All of us record regularly in home-based studios for publishers around the world, as well as producing and publishing independently. Narrating from home does create some additional challenges – here are our thoughts on some specific topics…
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Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens – Part Two
In the second part of this series on “The Essential Dickens Christmas”, Raconteurs narrators look at “A Cricket on the Hearth”, “The Haunted House” and “The Chimes.”
Bah Humbug!
Isn’t it extraordinary how ‘Bah Humbug!’ has entered our vocabulary? Not to mention the name of Scrooge – as the epitome of a skinflint; we echo the Cratchett family’s ‘oohs’ and ‘aaahs’ as our own Christmas pudding is served, and play Christmas party games just like the Fezziwigs.
Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens – Part One
A Christmas Carol is only one of the novellas that Dickens wrote to celebrate the festive season. In the audiobook The Essential Dickens Christmas there eight more stories that showcase the range of the author’s writing talents. In the first of this two-part series, some of the Raconteurs narrators talk about the stories in this collection that they recorded.