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Walter Dixon
Walter Dixon is a winner of Audible’s “#1 Editor’s Choice and Customer Favorites” award. He has narrated more than 200 audiobooks, performed in musical theatre, drama and opera productions, voiced commercials, corporate videos, animated features, vintage radio dramas and audio tours for the Guggenheim and other museums.
Watch his short video about creating audiobooks.
Photo by Liz Linder Photography.
American Nations by Colin Woodard
A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
Narrated by Walter Dixon
The Psychopath Inside by James Fallon
A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey into the Dark Side of the Brain
narrated by Walter Dixon
The Story of Earth by Robert M. Hazen
The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet
narrated by Walter Dixon
A Short History of Film by Wheeler Winston Dixon & Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
Narrated by Walter Dixon
The Man Who Sold America by Jeffrey L. Cruikshank, & Arthur W. Schultz
The Amazing but True Story of Albert D. Lasker and the Creation of the Advertising Century
Narrated by Walter Dixon
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The Neumann U 87 Ai is probably the best-known and most frequently used studio microphone the world over. Its smooth and refined sound is as iconic as its elegant exterior design. The U 87 Ai is the standard microphone for speech and vocals. Three polar patterns plus pad and low cut options make it adaptable to a wide range of applications.
Only A Game on WBUR
Each Friday for about the last 27 years, Charlie Pierce has joined Only A Game to talk about the week's news. For the first 25 of those, he did that with Bill Littlefield, who returns for one last discussion about athletes and activism, women's sports, favorite stories over the years and a spectacular goal by Lionel Messi.
Full Fathom 5000 by Graham Bell
The Expedition of the HMS Challenger and the Strange Animals It Found in the Deep Sea
Narrated by Walter Dixon
Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years by Diarmaid MacCulloch
Once in a generation, a historian will redefine his field, producing a book that demands to be read and heard - a product of electrifying scholarship conveyed with commanding skill. Diarmaid MacCulloch's Christianity is such a book. Breathtaking in ambition, it ranges back to the origins of the Hebrew Bible and covers the world, following the three main strands of the Christian faith.
Narrated by Walter Dixon
Scott Brick Reads Dune
In 1999, Brick began narrating audiobooks and found himself a popular choice for top publishers and authors. After recording some 250 titles in five years, AudioFile magazine named Brick “one of the fastest-rising stars in the audiobook galaxy," and proclaimed him a "Golden Voice," a reputation solidified by a November 2004 article on the front page of the Wall Street Journal.
Island Infernos
The dawn of 1945 finds a US Army at its peak in the Pacific. Allied victory over Japan is all but assured. The only question is how many more months - or years - of fight does the enemy have left. John C. McManus’s magisterial series, described by the Wall Street Journal as being “as vast and splendid as Rick Atkinson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Liberation Trilogy,” returns with this brilliant final volume.
Narrated by Walter Dixon
AI Comes to Audiobooks
Could this be magic? Over the past decade, audiobook sales, driven by digital audio, have exploded. Sales in 2020 exceeded $1.3 billion, up 12% over 2019. The percentage of Americans 18 and older who have listened to an audiobook is now 46%, up from 44% in 2019. One thing hasn’t changed, however: the arduous production process for audiobooks.
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In the United States he is most recognised as a leading actor on Broadway, where he had roles in Scapino, Barnum, Candide and Me and My Girl, as well as for narrating all seven of the Harry Potter audiobooks in the American market (for which he received two Grammy Awards out of six nominations) and the ABC series Pushing Daisies (2007–2009); he also starred in the Disney film Pete's Dragon (1977). He was nominated for a BAFTA Award for portraying a young Spike Milligan in Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (1973).
Stephen Fry Reads Harry Potter
Fry is also a prolific writer, contributing to newspapers and magazines and has written four novels and three autobiographies: Moab Is My Washpot, The Fry Chronicles and More Fool Me. He is also known for his voice-over work; he read all seven of the Harry Potter novels for the UK audiobook recordings, narrated Paddington Bear audiobooks, narrated the video game series LittleBigPlanet and Birds of Steel, narrated an animated series of explanations of the laws of cricket and narrated a series of animations about humanism for Humanists UK.
Leo Kottke
In the early 1980s, Kottke began to suffer from painful tendinitis and related nerve damage caused by his vigorous and aggressive picking style (particularly on the 12-string guitar). As a result, he changed his picking style to a classical style, using the flesh of his fingertips and increasingly small amounts of fingernail rather than fingerpicks, and changing the positioning of the right hand to place less stress on the tendons. A flat pick is often used in conjunction with his fingers, a style called hybrid-picking. He has studied more classical and jazz-oriented compositional and playing techniques.
Walter Dixon Sr.
Most memorably, “The Time Between,” a late night show which took its listeners into their own wonderful reveries and the “Justice” program for which he twice won the New York State Bar Associations Press Award. He was the “Voice of the Rochester Philharmonic” for many years, writing producing and narrating for radio, live concerts from the stage of the beautiful Eastman Theater. His green room interviews with such world-renowned artists as Leopold Stokowski, Alec Wilder, Eric Leinsdorf and his good friend, Fred Fennell, to name a few, complimented their live performances.