Audiobooks narrated by Martin Jarvis

Jon in the BBC's 1967 Forsyte Saga and Uriah Heep in its 1974 David Copperfield, and a long-standing voice on BBC Radio 4, where he is known for his Just William readings. On the UK store he reads Dickens complete — Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities and David Copperfield are all on this site's comparisons — but most of his Wodehouse is abridged, and his Carry On Jeeves holds only some of the stories: check the runtime before buying a Jeeves title in his voice. He also has parts in BBC radio dramatisations, including the Narnia Horse and His Boy and a War of the Worlds.

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1 series · 9 recording comparisons

Known on screen for The Forsyte Saga (1967), David Copperfield (1974, Uriah Heep), Rings on Their Fingers, Doctor Who · more celebrity narrators

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Series Martin Jarvis appears in

We do not list individual books for these: each is either shared between narrators or includes titles that are not in Martin Jarvis’s recordings, and we hold one narrator credit per series rather than per volume. We would rather say so than guess which titles are which.

Jeeves and Wooster in orderP.G. Wodehouse · 15 books · Varies by volume — Jonathan Cecil, Nicolas Coster, Ian Carmichael and others, with abridged Martin Jarvis editions

Where Martin Jarvis is one of the choices

Books sold as more than one recording, with Martin Jarvis among the options. Each page says which one to buy and why.

Recordings featuring Martin Jarvis

A selection from Martin Jarvis’s Audible UK catalogue, not the whole of it: 15 titles, with the type column saying what kind of recording each one is. Checked against the UK store; lengths are as the store gives them.

Watch the type column. 4 of these are abridged — a shortened text, not the whole book, for the same credit. Why that keeps happening →

Title	Author	Length	Type
Great Expectations	Charles Dickens	17h 32m	Solo
Oliver Twist	Charles Dickens	16h 17m	Solo
A Tale of Two Cities	Charles Dickens	14h 18m	Solo
David Copperfield	Charles Dickens	34h 33m	Solo
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Robert Louis Stevenson	2h 55m	Solo
Just William	Richmal Crompton	4h 52m	Solo
Just William: A BBC Radio Collection	Richmal Crompton	13h 1m	Solo
Good Omens	Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett	12h 33m	Solo
Lord of the Flies	William Golding	7h 1m	Solo
Thank You, Jeeves	P.G. Wodehouse	4h 50m	Abridged
Right Ho, Jeeves	P.G. Wodehouse	4h 48m	Abridged
The Code of the Woosters	P.G. Wodehouse	4h 58m	Abridged
Black Beauty	Anna Sewell	2h 29m	Abridged
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Horse and His Boy (BBC radio dramatisation)	C.S. Lewis	2h 21m	Full cast
The War of the Worlds (Classic Radio Sci-Fi)	H.G. Wells	2h 40m	Full cast

Authors Martin Jarvis reads

P.G. Wodehouse1 series on this site

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