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mp3 audio interview (4Mb)
The interview reveals many interesting things including…
- How long he has been working on audio books
- Listening to radio plays as a child
- Challenge of creating a world, characters, where the voices might come from
- What he thinks of Georgette Heyer and her writing, the comedy in the writing
- What he reads, how his reading is affected by his job and the authors he prefers to read
- Strike Back – there is the possibility for another series
- He still hopes to create the Richard III drama, and it’s picking up interest now.
For a long time I would not buy audio books, where is the fun in that? I love to read. I bought "Venetia" and had it for a couple of weeks before I had time listen to it.
Richard entertained me while I put a jigsaw puzzle together. I really enjoyed listening to him read Venetia, he brought all the charaters to life and when Venetia's new sister-in-law and her mother arrived Richard made them bearable.
I'm thinking I might get the other two books that he's done for Naxos.