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Audio

2022 – 2026

Impact Winter

As: Darcy| A Audible original production

A story of apocalypse, horror, and adventure, Impact Winter is a wholly original new saga created just for Audible with immersive 3D audio that dares you to pop in your earbuds and listen in the dark. Venture into an eternally sunless world of swords and crossbows; primal hunters and shape-shifters; leaders and lovers. Hear how a brave few fight to survive the impact winter.

2024

Rebecca

As: Narrator | A Audible original production

Not since Jane Eyre has a heroine faced such difficulty with the other woman. An international bestseller, Rebecca is the haunting story of a young girl consumed by love and the struggle to find her identity.

Running time: 16 hrs and 33 mins

2021

Girl A by Abigail Dean

As: Narrator| A Audible production

Girl A is not a book about the act that triggered trauma, it is a study of the aftermath, carried out with a meticulous eye for the needs of its survivors.

Running time: 11 hrs and 12 mins

2021

Ghosts by Dolly Alderton

As: Narrator| A Penguin production

32-year-old Nina Dean is a successful food writer with a loyal online following, but a life that is falling apart.

Running time: 10 hrs and 12 mins

2020

Elegies

As: Emily Tennyson| A BBC Radio 4 production

Elegies was first released in 2020, A two-part drama telling the stories behind two of the greatest and most influential poetic elegies ever published in English – Milton’s Lycidas and Tennyson’s In Memoriam.., now, a 2024 collection has been released, with and renamed as In Memoriam as part of the Alfred Lord Tennyson collection. Was written in response to the sudden death of his friend Arthur Hallam, this drama weaves the peerless poem into the story behind it, and stars Holliday Grainger, James Cooney and Ashley Margolis.

2018

Henrietta & Eleanor: a retelling of Jekyll and Hyde

As: Narrator| A Audible original production

Stevenson’s story is transported to modern-day London, and instead we meet Henrietta Jekyll and Eleanor Hyde.

Running Time: 2 hrs and 50 mins

2016

Blood, Sex and Money

As: Nana Copeau| A BBC Radio 4

This groundbreaking series won Best Drama at the BBC Radio and Music Awards 2016 and Best Adaptation at the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2017, and boasts a star cast including Robert Lindsay, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Holliday Grainger, Samuel West, Anna Maxwell Martin, Paul McGann, Georgina Campbell, Jack Lowden and Alison Steadman.

Running time: 23 hrs and 18 mins

2015

Capture The Castle

As: Cassandra | A BBC Radio 4

In the ruins of medieval castle, deep in rural 1930’s Suffolk, funny, intelligent 17 year old Cassandra Mortmain attempts to capture her family’s life in a journal. Their isolation is disrupted by the arrival of rich American brothers Simon and Neil and desperate to escape the family’s grinding poverty Cassandra’s beautiful older sister Rose determines to marry Simon. Dodie Smith’s rags-to-riches tale and moving coming-of-age novel with a cast of eccentrics. Dramatised in two parts by Jane Rogers.

2015

Dangerous Visions: The Testament of Jessie Lamb

As: Jessie Lamb | A BBC Radio 4 extra

Jane Rogers dramatises her award-winning dystopian novel about a teenage girl who decides to save humanity.

Running time: 15 minutes

2015

Reeds in the Wind

As: Lia/ Grixenda | A BBC Radio 4

Grazia Deledda’s powerful story of love, poverty, honour and retribution set in the rugged landscape of 1900’s Sardinia. Dramatised by Linda Marshall Griffiths from a translation by Martha King. Efix is a loyal servant to the Pintor sisters Noemi, Ester and Ruth, the last remnants of a noble family in decline, dishonoured by a sister, Lia, who ran away and driven to poverty by the sudden and mysterious death of their father. Only Efix knows the truth. When he discovers that the sisters have received a telegram from Lia’s son, the ghosts of the past emerge.

2008, FEB 20

Glorious John (Glyn Hughes)

As: young Celia | A BBC Radio 4

A music-loving retired lecturer rekindles a childhood sweetheart in his imagination.

Stars David Hargreaves, Charlie Ryan, Andrew Knott, Holly Grainger, Annabelle Dowler, Rob Swinton and Gillian Goodman.

2005

The Growing Summer

As: ??? | A BBC Radio 4

The Growing Summer is now part of Noel Streatfield: Ballet Shoes & More, released in 2024, originally released by BBC in 2005. – It is 1965, and the young Gareth children’s lives are about to change for ever. When their father falls dangerously ill, they are sent to Ireland to stay with their eccentric Great-Aunt Dymphna for the summer. There, in her crumbling mansion on the west coast, they face dangers and adventures they could never have imagined… Starring Ann Rye, Holly Grainger, Will Haigh, Emily Fleeshman and Paul Herriott.

2002

Our Late Supper by Nick Warburton

As: Charlie| A BBC Radio 4

A shy, middle-aged woman encounters a young girl called Charlie. This stirs up memories of her own parents. Miss Mallinder wants a patio built. When Mr. Bolson shows up for the job, he has a 12-year-old girl with him. It’s the school holidays, and after initial mistrust, the young girl and the older woman develop a tentative friendship.

Running time: 45 minutes

1999

Shakespear Season: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

As: Moth/ Mustardseed| A BBC 7 production (now BBC Radio 4)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, adapted for radio, with David Threlfall as Oberon and Sylvestra le Touzel as Titania. Introduced by Richard Eyre. Broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 19/9/99 as part of the Shakespeare for the Millennium celebration. On Saturday 3 December at 1.00pm, David Threlfall, Samuel West, Richard Griffths, Amanda Root and Sylvestra Le Touzel lead the cast in this 1999 production for Radio 3. Richard Griffiths is Bottom, David Threlfall is Oberon/Theseus, Sylvestra Le Touzel is Titania/Hippolyta, Samuel West is Lysander and Amanda Root is Hermia. Producer/Director is Susan Roberts.

Running time: 135 minutes

1999

The Babysitter Circle (previously The Circle)

As: Crystal| A BBC Radio 4

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1998

Chocky

As: Poly| A BBC Radio 4

The 90-minute radio play was directed by Melanie Harris and also featured Sacha Dhawan as Matthew Gore and Kathryn Hunt as Chocky.