Audiobooks narrated by Stephen Thorne

A radio actor first — Treebeard in the BBC Radio 4 Lord of the Rings, Aslan for the BBC — and on the UK store a reader of long narrative history: Andrew Roberts's Churchill and Napoleon, Robert Tombs, Simon Schama. He also reads Frost, both R. D. Wingfield's novels and James Henry's prequels, and the opening Cadfael mysteries at full length. In the BBC Narnia productions on this site's comparisons he is one voice in a cast, not the reader.

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1 series · 5 recording comparisons

Known on screen for Doctor Who (Azal, Omega, Eldrad) · more celebrity narrators

Best known for

• Churchill: Walking with Destiny
• Napoleon the Great
• The English and Their History
• Frost (R. D. Wingfield)
• Brother Cadfael (the opening novels)
• Narnia (BBC radio dramatisations)

Series Stephen Thorne appears in

We do not list individual books for these: each is either shared between narrators or includes titles that are not in Stephen Thorne’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.

• Brother Cadfael in orderEllis Peters · 20 books · Varies — the full-length recordings are split between Stephen Thorne, Johanna Ward, Vanessa Benjamin and others; Sir Derek Jacobi reads a much shorter, abridged set

Where Stephen Thorne is one of the choices

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

• The Voyage of the Dawn TreaderC.S. Lewis · 3 recordings
• The Lion, the Witch and the WardrobeC.S. Lewis · 3 recordings
• The Silver ChairC.S. Lewis · 3 recordings
• The Horse and His BoyC.S. Lewis · 3 recordings
• The Magician's NephewC.S. Lewis · 3 recordings

Recordings featuring Stephen Thorne

A selection from Stephen Thorne’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.

Authors Stephen Thorne reads

• EPEllis Peters1 series on this site

Who else reads these

Narrators who work on the same series — useful when a series is split between readers and you want to know whose voice you are getting.

• Derek JacobiI, Claudius, Cadfael, Gladiator

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