Ralph CoshamGeoffrey Howard

Post » Mon May 07, 2012 12:58 pm

I was recently listening to the Perelandra audio book. I noticed how exactly his voice sounded like the Breton males in Oblivion, but the guy had a different name (Ralph Cosham). So anyway, I thought they just must've had extremely similar accents. I found out eventually through wikipedia that these guys were the same! Turns out Ralph Cosham narrates books under the name "Geoffrey Howard" sometimes. He narrates a ton of stuff, like the Divine Comedy (Dante's stuff), Around the World in Eighty Days, and Alice in Wonderland (terrible book).

Had anyone else ever stumbled upon this guy's narrations?
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Jordan Fletcher
 
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Post » Mon May 07, 2012 1:56 pm

I have the Naxos audiobook of the Divine Comedy. But it's narrated by Heathcote Williams. Offhand, I don't recall seeing the name Geoffrey Howard anywhere. Nowadays I mostly listen to the free audiobooks put out by LibreVox anyway. I guess I'm cheap. ;)

When you say "terrible book" do you mean the audiobook version? I guess I can imagine that Alice in Wonderland might not work well in an audiobook form. So much depends on tyopography, and those classic illustrations by Tenniel.
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Post » Mon May 07, 2012 4:37 am

I have the Naxos audiobook of the Divine Comedy. But it's narrated by Heathcote Williams. Offhand, I don't recall seeing the name Geoffrey Howard anywhere. Nowadays I mostly listen to the free audiobooks put out by LibreVox anyway. I guess I'm cheap. ;)

When you say "terrible book" do you mean the audiobook version? I guess I can imagine that Alice in Wonderland might not work well in an audiobook form. So much depends on tyopography, and those classic illustrations by Tenniel.

No, I mean it's a really bad peice of literature.
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