There’s nothing like recording an audiobook to make you question every word you write. The classics would definitely take a trim
Challenging … ‘A narrator of audiobooks must do every voice, every accent and deliver the authorial voice.’Challenging … ‘A narrator of audiobooks must do every voice, every accent and deliver the authorial voice.’y head hurts, my throat hurts, my backside hurts. I can’t think, read or speak. I’ve been recording my audiobook, you see. It has been murder. If it is as painful to listen to as it has been to record, I will be sending out refunds.
His reading of Tinker Tailor, for example, is nearly 13 hours long. It falls to him, as with almost every narrator of audiobooks, to do every voice, every accent and, obviously, deliver the authorial voice. It amounts to what is essentially a very long one-man play. Jayston could deliver a performance for the ages as King Lear at Stratford and could not impress me any more than he does with his audiobook recordings. And this is how I felt before I had to record one myself.
If Henry James had had to do an audiobook of The Golden Bowl, I can’t believe he wouldn’t have gone back and chopped a few of those endless sentences down a bit. And I am imagining old Leo Tolstoy losing his mind reading War and Peace out loud by candlelight, pausing occasionally to throw the odd chapter on the fire, giving that classic doorstopper a much-needed trim.
He missed nothing. Occasionally, I would think I had got away with a little bit of sub-optimal emphasis but, no, within or second or two he was on to me. The whole thing came to feel like a very long version of Just a Minute, with my producer as Paul Merton, nitpicking away on the other side of the glass, buzzing in at every hesitation, repetition or deviation.
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