Audiobooks narrated by Timothy West
The definitive Trollope narrator — he recorded the Palliser and Barsetshire novels more or less entire, about 270 hours of them, and is the reason a lot of people got through Trollope at all.
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Best known for
- The Way We Live Now
- Can You Forgive Her?
- Framley Parsonage
- Rumpole: A BBC Radio Collection
- Old Harry's Game
Series Timothy West reads in full
The Chronicles of Barsetshire
Anthony Trollope · 6 books · read throughout by Timothy West. Publication order. The Warden is short and works as a test drive — at 6 hrs 44 mins it is a fraction of the length of the ones that follow, so it costs very little to find out whether you like him. David Shaw-Parker's complete readings of all six are on sale as well as Timothy West's.
- 1
The Warden (1855) - 2
Barchester Towers (1857) - 3
Doctor Thorne (1858) - 4
Framley Parsonage (1861) - 5
The Small House at Allington (1864) - 6
The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867)
Full The Chronicles of Barsetshire listening order →
The Palliser Novels
Anthony Trollope · 6 books · read throughout by Timothy West. Publication order, and it matters more here than in Barsetshire — the Palliser marriage is a continuous thread and Phineas Redux assumes you have read Phineas Finn. Timothy West's recordings are the ones timed here; David Shaw-Parker's complete readings of all six are on sale too.
- 1
Can You Forgive Her? (1864) - 2
Phineas Finn (1869) - 3
The Eustace Diamonds (1873) - 4
Phineas Redux (1874) - 5
The Prime Minister (1876) - 6
The Duke's Children (1880)
Full The Palliser Novels listening order →
Where Timothy West is one of the choices
Books sold as more than one recording, with Timothy West among the options. Each page says which one to buy and why.
Treasure IslandRobert Louis Stevenson · 9 recordings · our pick- The WardenAnthony Trollope · 7 recordings · our pick
Recordings featuring Timothy West
A selection from Timothy West’s Audible UK catalogue, not the whole of it: 6 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.
| Title | Author | Length | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Way We Live Now | Anthony Trollope | 32h 25m | Solo |
| Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson | 6h 57m | Solo |
| A History of Britain, Volume 1 | Simon Schama | 7h 57m | Solo |
| A History of Britain, Volume 2 | Simon Schama | 10h 52m | Solo |
| Our Great Canal Journeys | Timothy West | 4h 18m | Own work |
| Pru and Me | Timothy West | 9h 31m | Own work |
Authors Timothy West reads
Portraits — Anthony Trollope: Photo: Unknown photographer · Public domain · cropped, via Wikimedia Commons.
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.
See everything narrated by Timothy West on Audible → · All narrators