Chapter and verse
decade or so ago, audio storytelling was in the doldrums. Radio stations were cutting drama from their budgets, while audiobooks, involving little more than a single narrator in compressed MIDI format, were waning in popularity. Children might have been lulled to sleep with the dulcet tones of Stephen Fry reading , but that was where it started and finished. Now, Penguin Random House are releasing an audiobook of George Saunders’s Booker Prize-winning novel with an A-list Hollywood cast of 166 different narrators, while Audible has just released a version of with Stephen Fry and a full cast, with music from the London Symphony Orchestra. Podcasters are being commissioned to write memoirs and novels in their droves, with publication in audiobook format being favoured over ebook and hardback equivalents. Many of these releases offer bonus audio content and, in the case of
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