The Bridge Radio Play

Earlier this year Kevin directed and workshopped a play into being with two very talented Zimbabwean actors Lucia Nhamo and Verity Norman. That play has since been made into a radio play for broadcast on the Voice of America. Listen to it here.

 

Audiobooks

The Pythons Autobiography by The Pythons

Monty Python's autobiography was the first project I worked on with Strathmore Publishing. It was initally just a 'wafer thin' choice of sketches and extracts of audio from the interviews Bob McCabe had done for the book. Then someone said, "I like that, let's make a full programme from the same thing." ... and so the process began of carving a two and a half hour audio programme from over 50 hours of material. Working together with author/editor Bob McCabe and Nicholas Jones of Strathmore Publishing, we pieced the monster together; sketches, songs, clips from the movies, original interview material and something silly that I scribbled for Mr McCabe by way of introduction, with Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam improvising their madness around it.

(An Orion audiobook, produced by Bob McCabe, Nicholas Jones and Strathmore Publishing)

 

Secrets of the Code

Secrets of the Code is a book about the fact or fiction controversy raised by Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code. It is satisfying to get to see a project right the way through. On Secrets Cathy Douglas and I abridged the text , we seamlessly floated through the necessary pre-production at Strathmore Publishing and then they let me loose to direct the studio recording. I now feel almost qualified to take Da Vinci Code tours around Da-Vinci-Code-annoyed France.

Read by Jeff Harding and Sian Thomas
(An Orion audiobook, produced by Kevin Hanssen & Strathmore Publishing)

 

The Somme

Working closely with the author - Imperial War Museum's Oral Historian Peter Hart - and the IWM, Strathmore Publishing and I produced this complex audiobook that included some twenty-odd original interviews with 1st WW veterans, as well as a multiple voice recording including one actor making his audiobook acting debut (me). The edit of the the book required some creative use of plug-ins to match the variety of sound qualities together to make a smooth and excellent account of one of Britain’s most controversial battles.

Read by Tim Pigott-Smith and others.
(An Orion audiobook, produced by Kevin Hanssen & Strathmore Publishing)