“I don’t do the home thing, I think a lot of people are doing it in their closets now, which to me would seem kind of weird because there’s a kind of a tension and electricity which comes from being in the booth with a producer and engineer on the other side. I try not to get too specific on the page and be in a state of readiness but never stuck in choices.” He also only records in a professional studio setting. “I actually keep separate notebooks that I refer to.
“To make it about me is wrong, which is a lot of the time what we want to do as actors.”Īlthough some other voice actors do, Patton said he doesn’t really mark his scripts. “I’ve become like family, or maybe it’s that the character is family to me.” His role as narrator, he said, is to deliver the story and get out of the author’s way. Patton has read the work of authors such as Charles Frazier and Denis Johnson (“He is, I think, the finest in America”) and been the signature narrator of James Lee Burke’s stories, perhaps most famously, the world of Burke’s Louisiana detective Dave Robicheaux world, since 1993. She’s like to get American Michael Emerson to narrate one of her books, someday.
Harris added that she’s, “quite picky about who does my audiobooks.” Her novel narrators have included Juliet Stevenson ( Chocolat), Derek Jacobi ( Blackberry Wine et al.) and Downton Abbey’s Dan Stevens ( Blueeyedboy). You sit in the sound booth with a big bowl of bananas because apparently bananas are the only thing that stops your tummy from rumbling. “I had a lovely producer sitting there telling me to retake. “It was such fun,” Harris recalled of the day in studio. “I like reading aloud and have had so many people, when I have done readings, say to me that I ought to do my own audiobook,” she said. When we spoke about her novel Peaches for Father Francis two years ago, writer Joanne Harris had also just finished recording several of the short stories from her own A Cat, A Hat and a Piece of String collection. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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