Audio Work
“A narrator has the power to make or break a story, Jilly Bond is one of the best narrators I have come across”
The Siege by Helen Dunmore
I have been narrating audiobooks since 1996, with about 450 books to my credit, many of them on Audible. This strand of my career started as a result of a year spent with the BBC Radio Drama Company, during which I recorded 70 radio plays and many readings, both fictional and factual. This was an invaluable learning experience and ignited my passion for audio work. I’ve also won four Golden Earphones awards and am on the shortlist for the One Voice 2020 Awards.
I have my own studio and am very happy to accept individual commissions. I can supply the finished edited audio, or raw to a studio for final editing. Or I can work down the line, linking directly to a producer in an outside studio or their own home, enabling them to control the entire recording.
Contact me here: jillybond@live.co.uk
If you’re casting, here are some short clips from audiobooks, with genre & accent. I am proficient in most British dialects – please ask! (Norfolk & Birmingham not demonstrated here but excellent standard). I speak good French, German, some Spanish, Russian & Italian.
You can hear my Corporate Voice Reel here:
And my Video Games Reels here:
My Award-winning Audio Work
OnComm Nomination
Land Skeins: Autumn
2021 Winners NYC Big Book Award
Best Audiobook (Fiction) for Even in Darkness - A Novel by Barbara Stark-Nemon
One Voice Awards 2020
I have been short-listed for two awards -
Best Performance (Factual) for Quicksand Tales by Keggie Carew
Best Performance (Fiction) for The Peculiar Peggs of Riddling Woods by Samuel J Halpin
AudioFile’s Earphones Awards
The Dark Lady’s Mask “Listeners will be swept away by Bond’s performance ... captures the magical language ... delivers the narrative in melodious tones. Bond’s performance is a marvel.”
Black Dog Summer
Arlington Park
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
Commendations
Bertie, May & Mrs Fish was an Observer Book of the Week “the truly wonderful heroine ... Bond brings her unforgettably to life”
The American Lover by Rose Tremain was a collection of short stories, one of which I narrated. It was named one of the Telegraph’s 20 Best Audiobooks of All Time
Journeys Through France & Italy was a Sunday Times Audiobook of the Year
“Another beautiful reading by Jilly Bond. She has a lovely warm voice and she brings you right into the story.”
“Fabulous! Jilly Bond is an excellent narrator, I love this audiobook.”
“Jilly Bond did a marvellous job ... she had me enthralled.”
“Dobbs spins a good yarn and Jilly Bond knits it beautifully.”
Recent radio performances include:
Mother in Figures in a Landscape: What's in a Name (dir. Catriona Oliphant) for Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Michaela in The Song Of The Cossacks (dir. Jonathan Banatvala) for BBC Radio 4
Rebecca Jarrett in Raising Hell (dir. Norman Stone) for 1A Productions
Mother in Land Skeins: Autumn (dir. Fay Lomas) for nomoresuperheroes/Bush/Paines Plough/Rose Theatre
nominated for an OnComm AwardKate in Happy Even After for Human Story Theatre
Carol in Fishing (dir. Oscar Redding) & Miriam in Dancing in Kabul (dir. Brid Arnstein), both for the National Film & Television School
Sandra in The Family Way (dir. James Barry) for BBC Southampton
Mum in Saturday Night & Sunday Morning (dir. Carl Prekopp) for Goldhawk Essential/BBC
Sheila in Empty Nest (dir. Sara Davies) for the BBC Woman’s Hour serial
Francesca in Doctor Who & the Hornets’ Nest (dir. Kate Thomas) for BBC Audio
