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How I won an Earphones Award for Exceptional Audiobook Narration
In the middle of August in this exceptionally odd year of 2020 I was winding down, ready for a holiday I had barely dared to believe could happen, when I received an email telling me I had won an Earphones award from AudioFile Magazine for my part in the narration of “Lost Girls of Devon.”…
Read MoreWhat Can Audiobooks Offer Actors?
Who’d be an actor now? COVID-19 has been a grim time for actors. Theatres across the world have closed, with no real certainty on when they may open up again. Film and television sets have closed down and have only recently begun to re-open, with limitations imposed to control the spread of the virus. On…
Read MoreCorona Struggle
Denial I have not been doing so well with my response to the outbreak of the corona virus. I didn’t want it to be true so spent some time, along with the government, in denial. I told myself either that this wasn’t real, that somehow it didn’t apply to me or that I would just…
Read MoreWorld Book Day – Buy a costume or give a book?
Buy a costume or give a book? World Book Day is upon us again. During their time in primary school this has meant me desperately scrabbling for a costume for my son or daughter, or both, to represent their favourite character in their favourite book, to wear for one day at school. This is in…
Read MoreMy Life as an Audiobook Narrator
I sit in a padded box talking to myself in many different voices. Some call it madness, I call it a job. In 2013 I graduated from Drama School as a 40 year old mother of two, desperately wanting to make a new life for myself as an actor and writer, hopefully reaching the holy…
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