Download The History of Tom Jones - A Foundling AudioBook Free
The 'Tone of voice of the Time' competition created and sponsored by Naxos AudioBooks and The Times catalogs pages, edited by Erica Wagner, took place in Spring 2004. Readers without the formal drama training or professional acting experience were invited to send in recordings of a short draw out of either Dickens, Austen or from The Blowing wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame and an own choice. The judging -panel - Martin Jarvis, Juliet Stevenson, and Anton Lesser, with John Tydeman, David Timson, and Christina Hardyment (audiobook reviewer for The Times), under the chairmanship of Naxos AudioBooks' managing director Nicolas Soames - find the victor and finalists from practically 1000 entries. First award was to read a vintage for Naxos AudioBooks. The victor was Maurice West, a fifty-five-year-old English instructor from Croydon. His chosen part was from Tom Jones and he was invited to read an extended abridgement - 6-Disc collection - of the same novel. 'We were very impressed by the natural storytelling talent shown by Mr West, with a solid narrative character, a sense of period style and a firm grasp of the many characters who seem,' said Nicolas Soames. After graduating from Cambridge, Mr West put on LAMDA on the primary operating course and was accepted. Unfortunately, he didn't have sufficient money to take up the offer and got to confine his thespian pursuits to amateur dramatics. Now, later in life, he has a chance to open a new thread of activity. This 6 Disc saving of Tom Jones is an important addition to the eighteenth-century audio tracks library on Naxos AudioBooks.
