David Timson

David Timson

David Timson has made over 1,000 broadcasts for BBC Radio Drama. For Naxos AudioBooks he wrote The History of the Theatre, which won an award for most original production from the Spoken Word Publishers Association in 2001. He has also directed for Naxos AudioBooks four Shakespeare plays, including King Richard III (with Kenneth Branagh), which won Best Drama Award from the SWPA in 2001. In 2002 he won the Audio of the Year Award for his reading of A Study in Scarlet. He also reads The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes I, II, III, IV, V, and VI and The Return of Sherlock Holmes I, II, and III, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Sign of Four, The Valley of Fear, and The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes.

Titles read by David Timson
1,000 Years of Laughter (unabridged)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Volume I (unabridged)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Volume II (unabridged)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Volume III (unabridged)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Volume IV (unabridged)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Volume V (unabridged)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Volume VI (unabridged)
Opera Explained – Aida (unabridged)
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (unabridged)
Annals (unabridged)
Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes (unabridged)
Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar (unabridged)
Life & Works – Johann Sebastian Bach (unabridged)
Opera Explained – The Barber of Seville (unabridged)
Life & Works – Ludwig van Beethoven (unabridged)
Blithe Spirit (unabridged)
Life & Works – Johannes Brahms (unabridged)
The Great Poets – Robert Browning (selections)
Opera Explained – Carmen (unabridged)
The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes – Volume I (unabridged)
The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes – Volume II (unabridged)
Opera Explained – Cavalleria rusticana (unabridged)
The Christmas Collection (unabridged)
Christmas Stories (unabridged)
Classic Comic Verse (selections)
Classic Erotic Verse (selections)
The Great Poets – Samuel Taylor Coleridge (selections)
The Compleat Angler (unabridged)
The Confessions of Arsène Lupin (unabridged)
Opera Explained – Così fan tutte (unabridged)
Dangerous Liaisons (unabridged)
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume I (unabridged)
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II (unabridged)
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume III (unabridged)
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume IV (unabridged)
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume V (unabridged)
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume VI (unabridged)
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Volume I: 1660-1663 (unabridged)
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Volume II: 1664-1666 (unabridged)
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Volume III: 1667-1669 (unabridged)
Opera Explained – Die Fledermaus (unabridged)
Dombey and Son (abridged)
Dombey and Son (unabridged)
Opera Explained – Don Giovanni (unabridged)
Essays (unabridged)
The Faerie Queene (unabridged)
Fairy Tales (unabridged)
Opera Explained – Falstaff (unabridged)
A Family Christmas (unabridged)
Favourite Poems for Children (selections)
Opera Explained – Fidelio (unabridged)
Opera Explained – The Flying Dutchman (unabridged)
The Forsyte Chronicles, Vol. 1: The Forsyte Saga (unabridged)
The Forsyte Chronicles, Vol. 2: A Modern Comedy (unabridged)
The Forsyte Chronicles, Vol. 3: End of the Chapter (unabridged)
From Shakespeare – with love (selections)
The Gallic War (unabridged)
Ghost Stories (unabridged)
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (unabridged)
The Golden Ass (unabridged)
Hamlet (unabridged)
Life & Works – Joseph Haydn (unabridged)
Joseph Haydn: His Life and Works (unabridged)
Henry V (unabridged)
Histories (unabridged)
The Histories (unabridged)
The Hollow Needle: The Further Adventures of Arsène Lupin (unabridged)
Young Adult Classics – The Hound of the Baskervilles (abridged)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (unabridged)
Opera Explained – Il trovatore (unabridged)
The Innocence of Father Brown – Volume 1 (unabridged)
The Innocence of Father Brown – Volume 2 (unabridged)
The Interpretation of Dreams (unabridged)
Jason and the Argonauts (unabridged)
Julius Caesar (unabridged)
King Richard III (unabridged)
Opera Explained – La Bohème (unabridged)
Opera Explained – La sonnambula (unabridged)
Opera Explained – La Traviata (unabridged)
The Life and Works of Beethoven (unabridged)
The Life of Mozart (unabridged)
The Life of Samuel Johnson (unabridged)
A Life of Shakespeare (abridged)
London Labour and the London Poor (unabridged)
Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories (unabridged)
Opera Explained – L’elisir d’amore (unabridged)
Macbeth (unabridged)
Opera Explained – Madama Butterfly (unabridged)
Opera Explained – The Magic Flute (unabridged)
Opera Explained – The Marriage of Figaro (unabridged)
Memoirs of My Life (unabridged)
The Merchant of Venice (unabridged)
The Middle Way (unabridged)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (unabridged)
The Moonstone (unabridged)
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (unabridged)
On War (unabridged)
Opera Explained – Orfeo (unabridged)
Opera Explained – Orfeo ed Euridice (unabridged)
Our Mutual Friend (abridged)
Our Mutual Friend (unabridged)
Opera Explained – Pagliacci (unabridged)
Opera Explained – Pelléas et Mélisande (unabridged)
The Persian Expedition (unabridged)
The Pickwick Papers (unabridged)
The Pleasures of the Garden (selections)
Poems of the Orient (selections)
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (abridged)
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (unabridged)
Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes: His Last Bow (unabridged)
The Return of Sherlock Holmes – Volume I (unabridged)
The Return of Sherlock Holmes – Volume II (unabridged)
The Return of Sherlock Holmes – Volume III (unabridged)
Opera Explained – Rigoletto (unabridged)
The Secret History (unabridged)
The Sign of Four (unabridged)
The Essential Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (selections)
Sketches by Boz (abridged)
Stories from Shakespeare 3 (unabridged)
Stories from Shakespeare – The Plantagenets (unabridged)
A Study in Scarlet (unabridged)
Symposium (unabridged)
Opera Explained – Tancredi (unabridged)
Life & Works – Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky (unabridged)
Opera Explained – Tosca (unabridged)
The Trial and Death of Socrates (unabridged)
Opera Explained – Turandot (unabridged)
Twelfth Night (unabridged)
The Valley of Fear (unabridged)
Venus & Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece (unabridged)
Life & Works – Giuseppe Verdi (unabridged)
The Way of All Flesh (unabridged)
Opera Explained – Werther (unabridged)
Wuthering Heights (unabridged)