Simon Russell Beale

Simon Russell Beale is one of Britain’s leading classical actors. He won Best Actor in the Evening Standard Awards for his individual interpretation of Hamlet, and his Ariel in The Tempest was marked by an Olivier Award. Among his many other staring roles in London theatre was Candide and Mosca in Volpone. He has a busy career in TV and film too, with appearances in Branagh’s production of Hamlet and in the outstanding TV dramatisation of Persuasion. For Naxos AudioBooks he has also recorded The Life of Oscar Wilde, Great Speeches and Soliloquies of Shakespeare and William Shakespeare – A Biography.

Titles read by Simon Russell Beale

De Profundis (unabridged)

The Decameron (unabridged)

Favourite Poems for Children (selections)

Great Speeches & Soliloquies of Shakespeare (selections)

The Great Poets – John Keats (selections)

The Life of Oscar Wilde (abridged)

A Life of Shakespeare (abridged)

The Great Poets – Lord Byron (selections)

Popular Poetry, Popular Verse – Volume I (selections)

Stories from Shakespeare 3 (unabridged)