Of the opportunity to partner with Penguin Random House on this project, Neil said, “This project is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for me and my team at Ladbroke Audio, and I am still pinching myself to ensure it is really happening. The beauty of his use of language, his inventiveness and humour have been revelatory, and unusually his written word translates perfectly to the spoken word…his novels are so easy and smooth to narrate.” I’ve been buying his books since 1987, every year without fail, and am an unabashed super-fan. Neil said of his love for Terry’s books, “There are three authors who inspired my creative audio/radio career… Douglas Adams, Robert Rankin and, of course, Terry Pratchett. All 40 titles will be directed and produced by multiple award-winning radio/audiobook writer/director NEIL GARDNER, managing director of Ladbroke Audio, and his key team.
To direct and produce the series, Penguin Random House chose LADBROKE AUDIO, one of the UK’s leading audiobook production houses, who recently celebrated their 10th anniversary. The series will also feature BILL NIGHY as the voice of the footnotes (Terry’s infamous and beloved additions) and PETER SERAFINOWICZ as the voice of DEATH across all of the audiobooks. The overall series will be divided up into separate subseries, with the first publishing in April 2022, and there will be a different main narrator for each, including INDIRA VARMA (Game of Thrones) for the WITCHES series, COLIN MORGAN (Merlin) for the RINCEWIND/WIZARDS series, SIAN CLIFFORD (Fleabag) for the DEATH series and ANDY SERKIS (Lord of the Rings) narrating the stand-alone SMALL GODS. Penguin Random House has taken on a truly ambitious project to re-record all 40 audiobooks from Sir Terry Pratchett’s bestselling Discworld series, featuring a cast of leading names from British stage and screen.
Award-winning audiobook production house Ladbroke Audio has partnered with Penguin Random House to produce all-new unabridged audiobooks of the entire Discworld series of books by Sir Terry Pratchett.
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