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Ben Willbond on how a lifetime collecting voices prepared him for narrating audiobooks

“Narrating Loki is really fun to do. It’s a sort of vocal gymnasium, which I love because if you hit it right, it’s just joyful. So the time flies by, like a little holiday. And no one asks you to grow a moustache.”
Ben Willbond
Ben Willbond
Ben Willbond, star of Ghosts and Horrible Histories, on why narrating audiobooks is much less stressful than acting.

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