Does anyone have suggestions for getting the Stephen Fry versions more cheaply? Here is Amazon's page: also checked the Bloomsbury site. While I would love to pay full price, I simply cannot. Is there a British equivalent of Half Price Books, or even Costco (big box/discount store)? I really want the SF versions, but the libraries that own them would not lend through Interlibrary Loan (this lending program is being cancelled due to lack of funding anyway). Thanks for any tips you may have. I really do think Jim Dale is lovely, but I do see the merit in the opinion that his voice can be a bit sonorously dull. He DOES hold the Guiness Book of Records for the most number of voices, but if you get too far into supporting characters, I find that they all start sounding like Hagrid. I adore Stephen Fry and his plummy tones and can't WAIT to get my hands on the books. ( If only I could splash out for the big, beautiful boxed set published by Bloomsbury.!) Perhaps it's because another publisher acquired the Canadian rights to the Fry recordings? The UK editions seem to be published by Cover To Cover, while the Canadian ones are published by HNP. So, in theory, an American publisher could get the rights to the Fry narrations and publish them alongside the Jim Dale recordings published by Listening Library. International publishing rights are complicated, and make no sense to either man or God. It could also be that HNP did not actually acquire the rights to the Stephen Fry audio books, but are selling them in violation. That might explain why they're available to Canadians via Amazon through HNP, but not through the pottermore shop. Doing some Google searches, it looks like the UK publisher of the Stephen Fry audio books is Cover To Cover, but they were actually produced by HNP, LTD. So it looks more likely that HNP produced the Stephen Fry.
Name: BBC Radio 4 ( Various artists) Portfolio: The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Les Misérables, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Before Peter Jackson took the Hobbits to New Zealand, before Anne Hathaway’s forlorn close-up, and while Robert Downey Jr. was shuttling between jail and rehab, there was BBC Radio 4. These literary dramatizations of classic (and often epic) works of literature have a distinct advantage: a full cast. But these casts are plucked from the British stage and screen, and voices like Ian Holm, William Nighy, and John Le Mesurier are as excellent as stand alones as they are in.
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