11/20/2023 0 Comments Potteraudio![]() ![]() ![]() When he was little, Alfie used to go to bed with headphones on, listening to a tape. "I've made 40 years or so of them and I haven't heard one of them.”īut his grandson, Alfie, had heard the audiobooks. “I've never heard any of my audiobooks, ever," he said. While millions have heard his voices in those celebrated readings, from the raspy giant Hagrid to the meek house elf, Dale has not. His Schoolhouse show, at which he'll be accompanied by Mark York, will capture the spirit of Dale's beloved music halls, with stories and sing-alongs. ![]() "Consequently, I was able to delve deep into those memories of what it was like living in Yorkshire, living in Scotland, living in Ireland, living in Wales, and reproduced some of those accents when called upon to do so by J.K. “Because I had toured England for two whole years in a different town every week and lived for that one week with people speaking in that dialect, I think that stayed with me, unbeknown to me," he said. The voices, he says, he absorbed on the road. "I didn't know I had the ability to do different voices.” Rowling asked me to do the ‘Harry Potter’ audiobooks, she knew my work from the ‘Carry On’ films," he said. He credits much of his audio-book success to two jobs at the start of his career: as a stand-up comic touring the fading music halls of the United Kingdom, and his work on 13 of the wildly popular British sketch movies called “Carry On.” Some of the "Harry Potter" characters have just a few lines, but Dale adheres to the no-small-parts-only-small-actors credo, breathing life into each, no matter their contribution to the advancement of the plot. ![]()
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