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Welcome to The Story Circle Under the direction of Garrick Hagon, William Dufris and Liza Ross, The Story Circle is a creative team of recording experts using imaginative writers, skilled voices, original music, thrilling sound effects and state of the art studios to transform your material into great audio. Details of our services can be found here. To listen to samples of Story Circle productions, visit our Listening Circle. |
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Late News
Recent unabridged Story Circle recordings for download by Hachette Digital: Finty Williams reading ‘Afterwards’ by Rosamund Lupton, Daniel Philpott reading ‘The Return of Capt. John Emmett’ by Elizabeth Spellers and Mark Billingham reading his latest thriller ‘Good As Dead’. Miriam Margolyes has brilliantly read 'Lucia in London' the final recording in our series of six Mapp and Lucia stories by E.F. Benson, for Hachette Digital, directed by Garrick Hagon, post-production by Wolfgang Dienst.
A Persephone Books first for the New Year! We have just finished recording Lucy Scott's reading of Frances Hodgson Burnett's 'The Making of a Marchioness'. One of Persephone's most popular titles, the audio production directed by Garrick Hagon will be available for download soon. Studio engineer and post-production by Wolfgang Dienst. Also for Persephone it was a great pleasure to record Diana Athill, who has recently celebrated her 93rd birthday, reading brilliantly 6 of her own short stories, part of a collection of 12 stories to be published in April 2011 and soon after available in audio format.
Rupert Degas has read Andy McNab's 'Zero Hour' for Random House and at Strathmore Publishing Michael Brandon read the latest John Grisham thriller, 'The Reversal', for Orion Audiobooks. Hilary Neville has read Alexander McCall Smith's 'The Charming Quirks of Others'. Samantha Bond donned her spurs to read Jilly Cooper's 'Jump' and Haydn Gwynne has read 'Trick of the Dark', the latest mystery thriller by Val McDermid.
David Rintoul has performed two funny and touching Scottish stories, 'The Importance of Being Seven', the latest 'Bertie' saga in Alexander McCall Smith's '44 Scotland Street' series abridged by Kati Nicholl and the wonderful 'Whisky Galore' by Compton Mackenzie, abridged and directed by Garrick Hagon and recorded by Adrian Sear at Soundtracks with post-production by Wolfgang Dienst.
Sylvester McCoy came to Soundtracks Studio in great form to read John Burningham’s famous children’s stories, Mr. Gumpy’s Outing and Mr. Gumpy’s Motor Car, with music by Peter Pontzen and effects and production by Wolfgang Dienst and Garrick Hagon. Jeff Harding has read ‘In the Shadow of the Cypress’ by Thomas Steinbeck for Brilliance Audio US directed by Liza Ross. Adjoa Andoh, recently seen as Nelson Mandela's personal secretary in the film Invictus, has read the latest Mma Ramotswe story ‘The Double Comfort Safari Club’ by Alexander McCall Smith. We have abridged and produced ‘The Forgotten Highlander’ read by David Rintoul. This is the harrowing account by the 91-year-old veteran Alistair Urquhart of his capture in Singapore and subsequent slave labour on the Burma ‘Death’ Railway.
The Story Circle production of ‘Tea Time for the Traditionally Built’ read by Adjoa Andoh for Hachette Digital has just won the 2009 UK Audiobook of the Year: Fiction Category. Juliet Stevenson read Kate DiCamillo’s ‘The Magician’s Elephant’ for Brilliance Audio. Alan Howard narrated ‘You Must Remember This’, Classic Songs from World War II and the Stories Behind Them, at his home on the Isle of Barra in the Hebrides, a production for Hachette Digital directed by Garrick Hagon with recording by Wolfgang Dienst.
Ian McKellen read the final book in Michelle Paver’s wonderful ‘Wolf Brother’ series for Orion, Michael Maloney read Val McDermid’s ‘Fever of the Bone’ for Hachette, Hilary Neville read Alexander McCall Smith’s latest Isabel Dalhousie story, ‘The Lost Art of Gratitude’, Christopher Ravenscroft read Ruth Rendell’s ‘The Monster in the Box’ for Random House, and Garrick Hagon read ‘The Devil’s Garden’ for Random House.
Earlier, Claire Bloom joined us to read Diana Athill's new bestseller ‘Somewhere Towards the End’ at Soundtracks Studio, London, with engineer Adrian Sear and post-production by Wolfgang Dienst for Orion/Strathmore. Brian Cox performed J.R.R. Tolkien’s translation of the great Norse poetic saga, ‘The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun’.
Julie Walters has recorded her warm and funny autobiography ‘That's Another Story’ for Orion Audiobooks, directed by Garrick Hagon. Charley Boorman’s account of his fantastic trip ‘By Any Means’, which we abridged and produced, was read by Rupert Degas and recorded at Soundtracks Studio, London, for Hachette.
Gaining an Earphone Award from AudioFile magazine, Frances McDormand recorded the unabridged book of her latest film, ‘Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day’, by Winifred Watson. The production was directed by Garrick Hagon at CDM Studios in New York with post-production by Wolfgang Dienst. Bill Bryson read his own funny and informative ‘Shakespeare’ at Q Sound for Harper Collins.
Of our production of the Lewis Carroll classic for Naxos, Christina Hardyment in The Times said: ‘A new multi-voiced unabridged Alice in Wonderland is the best I have come across.’ (full review on Critics’ Circle page)
The Story Circle production of ‘Classic Tales of Ghosts and Vampires’ is now available on www.audible.com. – ‘one of the most imaginative and original audiobook collections that I’ve heard’, Christina Hardyment, The Times, August 21st, 2004.
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Recent Awards... Awards for Story Circle Productions are listed on the Winner's Circle page.
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