072 Robin Whitten on "The Golden Compass" by Phillip Pullman

What a thrill it was to chat with Robin Whitten, founder and editor of AudioFile Magazine. I rely on their reviews for all of the audiobooks I check out at my library (yes! You can check out audiobooks at your library). Today, Robin and I chatted about how a narrator can bring you deeper into a story or drag you further out of it, how a good narrator can redeem an average book (and vice versa) and why the movie version of The Golden Compass didn’t work. If you have never read The Golden Compass, I highly recommend you take Robin’s advice and experience it on audio. It’s a full cast production and it is truly something special.

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Discussed in this episode:

The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman

His Dark Materials Series by Phillip Pullman

Call for the Dead: A George Smiley Novel by John LeCarré

 

Kate Winslet narrated audiobooks:

The Twits, The Minpins, and The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl

Matilda by Roald Dahl

You’re a Bad Man, Mr. Gum by Andy Stanton

Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

 

The Golden Compass movie

His Dark Materials television series

Other audiobooks narrated by Sean Barrett (voice of lorick Byrnison)

Neil Gaiman self-narrated audiobooks

Always by Morris Gleitzman

Always is the final book in the story of Felix, the hero of Morris Gleitzman’s Once, Then, Now, After, Soon, and Maybe

The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny

The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie, read by Alfred Molina and a Full Cast

The Iliad, narrated by Anton Lesser

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

 

Discussed in our Patreon Segment

The AudioFile Magazine Golden Voices

Simon Jones

George Guidall

Gerard Doyle

Laura Lippman

Linda Emond

Robert Bathurst

Jason Culp

 

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