![]() Jim Dale: Laurence Olivier saw me playing the various Shakespeare’s clowns in and around the Edinburgh Festival and in the West End of London, and he finally approached me and said, “We have a play at The National Theatre which needs an actor who can talk to the audience.” It’s called The National Health by Peter Nichols, who went on to write wonderful plays like Joe Egg, and so Larry invited me to The National Theatre and I stayed there a couple of years, sharing a dressing room with Derek Jacobi and Jeremy Brett, and I did a two-hander play with Anthony Hopkins, and I was on stage with Paul Scofield, and then Joan Plowright in Merchant of Venice with Larry himself playing Shylock, and I played Launcelot Gobbo. Jo Reed: You worked with Laurence Olivier, and he invited you to join The National Theatre. That’s where I learned to tell jokes that were not dirty or no crude language in it, and you had to be funny in those days for that audience to laugh at you, and that’s where, I think, I got most of my training for what would be coming on in the future. It was family oriented, and that’s where I learned my trade. It died off in the 1960s, but for 150 years it had been the principal form of theatrical entertainment for working-class Brits. I entered a music hall which was still going in those days. Jim Dale: Well, I started as a comedian-not a comedian, a young man trying to make people laugh when I was nine years of age in the various talent shows that I did in our local community, and after six or seven years of training to be a dancer, I then decided to be a stand-up comedian at the age of 17 and a half. Hear how he kept track of the dozens of character voices he brought to life in Harry Potter, and his unusual way he ensured he could record a second take of a line. Jim Dale has narrated new takes on classics such as The Beast’s Heart, brightened full-cast recordings like Spin: The Rumpelstiltskn Musical, and enlivened the worldwide bestseller The Night Circus. ![]() Listen as Jo Reed and Jim Dale discuss his audiobook work and his extraordinary career in the entertainment industry. Jim came to audiobooks accidentally, and later in his career, and listeners are so lucky he did. What many listeners may not know is that Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone was his introduction to audiobook narration. If you ask an audiobook listener about their favorite audiobooks, odds are good that they’ll say they adored Jim Dale’s narration of the Harry Potter series. Our monthly bonus episodes give you a chance to hear longer interviews with authors and narrators, and today we are delighted to share a conversation with one of the best in the audiobook industry. ![]() We keep our daily episodes short and sweet, with audiobook clips to give you a sample of our featured listens. Every Monday through Friday, AudioFile’s editors recommend the best in audiobook listening. With all of the other complex words and phrases throughout the books, such as “Animagus” and “Cruciatus,” it's hard to believe that Fry had a hard time saying something as minor as “Harry pocketed it.” But we’re happy Rowling got to have some fun, and now we’ll be listening for Fry’s pronunciation next time we’re in the mood to listen to some Harry Potter.Behind the Mic with AudioFile Magazine is excited to be part of the Lit Hub Radio network. I could hear her smile as she said it,” Fry remembered.įry concluded by recalling that after the phone call, Rowling purposefully wrote the three words into the Harry Potter books to come. “So I called her up and said, ‘Look, do you mind, I can’t say ‘Harry pocketed-ed it.’ Would it be okay if I said ‘Harry put it in his pocket?’ There was a big pause at the end of the line, then she said, ‘No’ in her best witch’s voice. This ended up resulting in a call to J.K. “You see I can say ‘Harry,’ and I can say ‘pocketed,’ and I can say ‘it.’ But I can’t say ‘Harry pocketed it,’” Fry explained.Īfter trying to say it many times for the recording, Fry asked if they could come back to the line later. #HayFestival2019 /sovSpxl9yO- BBC Arts May 27, 2019 The inimitable tells the about a hilarious moment while recording the audiobook for #HarryPotter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Even when recalling the instance, the comedian still couldn’t say the words correctly. The line “Harry pocketed it” just couldn’t be said without him stuttering. He revealed that while he’s pretty skilled at reading aloud without mistakes, there were three words that tripped him up. Speaking at HayFestival, Fry told a hilarious story about his time recording the Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban audiobook. But Stephen Fry, the man who narrated all 11 audiobooks, does have one specific line he would change which has appeared throughout the books, and that’s because he couldn’t say it. Many fans would argue that the Harry Potter series is one of the best in children’s book history, without much to criticize.
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