Richard has been interviewed by Naxos Audiobooks regarding his recording of Venetia by Georgette Heyer. The 11 minute audio clip consists of an interview followed by an excerpt from the audio book.

You can listen and download the mp3 audio interview on the Naxos Venetia page.

The interview reveals many interesting things including… (perhaps you would like to listen first before I reveal too much):

• 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.

Brilliant news I’m sure you’ll agree.

Richard is to play Robert Lovelace in the Radio 4 dramatisation of Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa, serialised in four parts and starting on Sunday 14 March 3.00 – 4.00pm.

There is more information on the BBC Press Office webpage.

This drama is part of Radio 4′s ‘Classic Serial’ programmes, defined as ‘Adaptations of works which have achieved classic status’. More information is here on the Classic Serial webpage. Further details for this adaptation of Clarissa will appear on this page nearer to its air date.

The Classic Serials are broadcast first from 3:00-4:00pm on Sunday, then repeated on 9:00-10:00pm the following Saturday.

Update 27th Feb:

More information from the production company on their website here: Catherine Bailey Limited. This site also confirms that it will be retransmitted on Saturday evenings.

Radio broadcasts are available to listen to outside of the UK, unlike BBC television programmes. The BBC’s ‘Listen Live’ service will be available on the Classic Serial webpage during the broadcast of each episode of Clarissa, or you can listen again with BBC iplayer after each episode is broadcast.

Update 2nd March:

There is now a Clarissa career page on our website, where full information about the programme will be listed.

Richard will be providing the voiceover for The Natural World programme ‘Forest Elephants: Rumble in the Jungle’ shown on BBC2 and BBC HD. This programme will air on Thursday, March 4th, 2010 from 8:00pm to 9:00pm

The Locate TV website gives further details here.

Here’s a description of the programme:

Over the last 20 years, Andrea Turkalo has been studying the complex social lives and unique vocalisations of the Central Africa’s Forest Elephants, getting to know over 4,000 intimately. As new acoustic research sheds light on the many mysteries that still surround forest elephant society, will these endangered elephants finally speak out and tell Andrea what it is they need to survive?

There is more information about Andrea Turkalo’s elephant research on therevealed.wildlifedirect.org website.

Update 25 Feb:

Programme details can be found on the BBC2 Natural World webpage and further clips are available to view, but unfortunately only for those who live in the UK.

We have been alerted by a couple of people this afternoon that Richard has read an abridged version of Georgette Heyer’s Venetia. According to Amazon UK, this will be available from 1 April 2010.

See Amazon UK page here for details and to pre-order your copy.

Amazon US also have the title available for pre-order and it is released on 6 April 2010.

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