Here at Listen Up, we’re very excited to launch our new Audio Audio Interview Series — Q&As with narrators, audio publishers, and authors, all recorded live, and all presented to you, The Listener, in audio format.
And today, we start things off with a bang: my one-on-one chat the inimitable Johnny Heller, one of the industry’s best narrators, winner of multiple Audie Awards, Listen Up Awards, Golden Earphone Awards, and one of Audiofile’s Top 50 voices of the 20th Century.
Last week, Johnny and I got together at the Recorded Books studio and chatted about everything from his latest project and celebrity impressions to preparing for a recording session and remaining true to the author’s vision. Along the way, Johnny offers tips to aspiring narrators and answers some probing questions sent in from fans via Twitter. And, needless to say, things get a little saucy.
Listen Up would like to give special thanks to Recorded Books, Rob Granniss of Brick Shop Audiobooks, and engineer and editor extraordinaire Marc Avila for all their help and support.
So, without further ado, we give you Johnny Heller: The Audio Audio Interview:
Feeling very uplifted, entertained and educated after listening to this singular interview.
Johnny Heller stands alone! He knows this business inside out, and is so real and compelling. He tells it like it really is, and is refreshingly humorous and witty whilst giving real gems of what audio narration is all about.
This may well go down in annals of recorded interviews, as an example of interviewing at it’s best, on both sides of the table.
Kudos to Adam Boretz for conceiving this, Johnny Heller for being Johnny Heller, and Recorded Books for Hosting this extraordinary event!
A MUST LISTEN if ever there was one:)
That. Was. Awesome. Loved it. Thanks, Adam and Johnny!
THIS WAS AMAZING!!!!! So informative and entertaining. (Also: I want Johnny Heller’s cat-noise as my ring tone.)
Bravo. Funny and educational at the same time. Why couldn’t school be like this?