![]() I went to conservatory to train, studied a little in England, which was really fun. ROBIN MILES: I'm your pretty much garden-variety actor. JOHNSEN: Another one of my favorite readers is Robin Miles. ![]() JOHNSEN: It took him a while to fully embrace audiobook narration as the actual goal, but he says it's the only time he gets to use all of his talents as an actor.įREE: You know, when I'm doing an audiobook, I get to play a leading man. For Kevin, it wasn't even a career path he had originally considered.įREE: I grew up wanting to be an actor, and that meant theater and then eventually TV and then movies and then, you know, death. Anyone could do that, right? Actually, though, it takes a lot of artistry. It could be really easy to think of an audiobook as a person just reading stuff out loud. Which is a much more delightful series than the title may suggest. ![]() That would have been the smart thing to do. (SOUNDBITE OF AUDIOBOOK, "ALL SYSTEMS RED")įREE: (Reading) I could have pulled out at this point, sabotaged the hoppers and got my humans out of there, leaving the rogue unit stuck on the other side of an ocean. I love him because he narrates Martha Wells' "Murderbot Diaries". JOHNSEN: Kevin has been wearing that hat since 2000. That is the hat for which you are interviewing me. I am a multi-hyphenate artist, and I suppose I'm on the Nerdette podcast because I am an audiobook narrator. ![]() JOHNSEN: One of my favorite voices is this guy. SARAH JAFFE: What that actually means is mostly - I think my 10-year-old self would be thrilled - I get paid to read books all day, talk to really brilliant authors and then do sort of the dream casting that I think we all do in our heads of like, OK, what kind of voice would I need to play this character? And then I get to find and hire that voice. She's an executive producer at Penguin Random House Audio. Host Greta Johnsen picks it up from here. Their recent series Undercover looks at how a book comes to life from the blurbs on the cover to film adaptations, and this week's focus is audiobooks. Today, we go to Chicago member station WBEZ to hear their podcast Nerdette. It's time for our podcast corner, where we bring you a podcast we love from the NPR network. ![]()
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