There are a few audio recordings of Nigel Hawthorne available for you to listen to online! For instance, feel free to visit Camiel Camps' brilliant Yes Minister Home Page, if you haven't already, and listen to soundfragments of every Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister episode! (Real Audio Player required)



Loveliest of Trees - Celebrating 100 years of A Shropshire Lad



Recordings of Sir John Betjeman's poetry on a double audio cassette
(Poets for Pleasure series pub. by Hodder Headline Audiobooks)

Poets for Pleasure Giftpack 2: Donne, Byron & Betjeman
Vanessa Redgrave, et al. Audio Cassette, published 1996


Classic FM 100 Favourite Poems


Releases from © Hyperion Records Ltd, with Hawthorne as narrator




Audio Books


"The Tao Te Ching"
Audio Book (abridged - 80 minutes)
ISBN: 1561769401
Publisher/Date: Mystic Fire /04/1998

Classic Tales of Humour
the spoken word on an audio cassette
1998, CSA Telltapes, ISBN 190176821X

The Warden by Anthony Trollope
Audio Cassette Cassette edition (September 1995)
Chivers Audio Books; ISBN: 0745127304

Kazuo Ishiguro - "The Remains of the Day"
Publ.info: Bath : Chivers Press, 1993 (6 cassettes)

Dead Man's Mirror by Agatha Christie
Edition: Unabridged WISCAT #: 45917663, 1986

Agatha Christie: Murder in the Mews
Publisher, Durkin-Hayes 1984
Unabridged Fiction - 2 cassettes - 130 minutes

Winnie The Pooh by A.A. Milne
(A "must-hear"! Ed.)
(2 hrs. 2 cs.)

Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
Audio Cassettes

Doctor on the Boil by Richard Gordon
Audio Cassettes

Territorial Rights by Muriel Spark
Audio Cassettes, 1990




Radio Plays

Yes, yes, I know that Hawthorne has done many, many more radio plays than the ones I have listed here! Given time, the list should become more complete...

The most recent radio play Hawthorne recorded was for BBC Radio 4 entitled "Wainewright The Poisoner", in which he played the title role. The play is by Peter Straughan and it is based on Andrew Motion's biography. Plot summary: From a hospital in the penal colony of Tasmania, Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, painter and writer, looks back over his controversial life. Also stars Alex Jennings, Toby Jones and Elizabeth Bell. Sue Roberts directs. It was aired on November 17th 2000.

Another brilliant play is Yuri Rasovsky's "Craven Street," in which Hawthorne starred as Lord Dartmouth in an historic play about Benjamin Franklin in London. The cast includes Elizabeth Montgomery, George Grizzard, David Warner, Michael Sheen and many others. It was published in 1993 on five cassettes by Lodestone Audio Theater.