Her recording of A Breath of Snow and Ashes earned her a second Audi, the Oscar of the audiobook industry, for Best Female Narrator of the Year. Porter is recognized by more than her fans, too. She’s recorded Alexander McCall Smith’s Isabel Dalhousie series, and Phillipa Gregory’s The Virgin’s Lover and The Boleyn Inheritance. Besides the Outlander series, she has recorded Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary and Tess of the D’Urbervilles. While continuing to act on stage, Porter, one of the founding narrators of Recorded Books, to date has recorded well over 400 audiobooks. That was in 1985 and she hasn’t looked back. “’We had various tapes, they said - and all of them were incomprehensible.’” “What happened to the native-born Scotsman?” she asked. Three months later, she got a call and was asked if she was still interested.
We think we will have future work for you, but we wanted a native-born Scotsman,” Porter says of the audition. She was intrigued, so she went in for the audition. At that time, audiobooks were a fairly new concept. “I was skimming and right at the back I saw a listing for a native-born Scot to read Culloden,” she says. We can thank a three-line listing in Backstage, a trade magazine where auditions, casting information and other tidbits are noted, for Porter becoming the voice of Outlander. Here’s what she had to say about acting, recording books and, of course, our favorite subject, Outlander. I tracked her down via the wonders of the web-she lives on Fraser Road!-and knew as soon as she picked up the phone I had found her. Davina Porter, the reader for all eight Outlander books so far, is beyond amazing.
And, like Claire’s leap through the stones, my life has never been the same.
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My good friend who bullied me into watching the series (THANK YOU, SUSAN!!!) was an audiobook fan, and my sister-in-law and her partner only listen to the books because, as they said to me, the reader was THAT good.Īnd so, I took the leap to my first audiobook. Having re-read the series three times (I’m leading a read-along of Voyager on our Facebook page if you’re interested), I was looking for a way to stay connected during the Longest-Droughtlander-Ever.
And certainly no audiobooks! No, I want to hold the book in my hand, to feel its paper between my fingers and smell its musty odor. Yes, electronic readers could be convenient for trips, but that’s it. Just ask my family…or co-workers…or friends…or maybe even a random stranger I happen to begin chatting with while on line at Starbucks.īefore Outlander, I was also a book purist. Yes, other minor events may creep in-marriages, births, deaths, jobs-but in the course of what matters, Outlander looms large.īefore Outlander, for instance, I had never obsessed over anything-or at least not to the extent to which I obsess about this series and show I had also not been a member of anything you could even remotely suggest was a fandom since the days of the Monkees. For many of us, life can be divided into two substantive periods: Before Outlander and After Outlander.
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