Best Tim McInnerny Audiobooks
Tim McInnerny brings the kind of crisp, unhurried authority that only comes from a career split between stage, screen, and the BBC microphone. Best known to many as the hapless Lord Percy in Blackadder, McInnerny reveals a very different register in the recording booth — measured, precise, with a rich tenor that suits historical weight beautifully. His narration of Robert Harris's Act of Oblivion captures the novel's cold moral tension without overpowering it, while his contributions to the Charles Dickens BBC Radio Drama Collection demonstrate genuine ensemble range. He excels at literary material that demands vocal patience — long sentences, layered irony, period texture. Listeners who love the BBC Radio Drama tradition, where performance serves the text rather than competing with it, will find McInnerny exactly in his element. Not a showman, but consistently excellent.
Where to Start with Tim McInnerny
- New to Tim McInnerny? Start here → Act of Oblivion
- What fans keep coming back to → The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio : complete and unexpurgated
- Highest rated by listeners → The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights
Best Tim McInnerny Audiobooks
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Act of Oblivion
by Robert Harris
Narrated by Tim McInnerny
★ 4.28 BLT Score (22.1K ratings)★ 4.06 Goodreads (21.4K) ★ 4.57 Audible (723)More about this pick
Harris crafts a paranoid historical thriller across the Atlantic, and McInnerny's narration transforms the manhunt into something that reads like espionage. (154 characters)
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The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights
by Bridget Collins, Susan Stokes-Chapman, Imogen Hermes Gowar, Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Andrew Michael Hurley, Jess Kidd, Elizabeth Macneal, Natasha Pulley, Laura Purcell, Laura Shepherd-Robinson, Stuart Turton, Catriona Ward, Lisa Perrin
Narrated by Mark Bonnar, Rona Morison, Sian Clifford, Tim McInnerny
★ 3.87 BLT Score (5.7K ratings)★ 3.95 Goodreads (5.6K) ★ 4.53 Audible (47) - 3
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio : complete and unexpurgated
by Richard Aldington, Rockwell Kent
Narrated by Terry Jones, John Finnemore, Samuel Barnett, Colin McFarlane, Tim McInnerny, Neil Pearson, Louise Brealey, Paul Ritter, Tameka Empson, Full Cast
★ 3.77 BLT Score (43.9K ratings)★ 3.88 Goodreads (43.9K) ★ 5 Audible (3)More about this pick
A stellar ensemble cast transforms Boccaccio's bawdy medieval tales into pure theater—each narrator finds the wit and mischief that makes these 14th-century stories feel startlingly alive.
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The Charles Dickens BBC Radio Drama Collection: The Early Years
by Charles Dickens, Alex Jennings, Anna Massey, Bill Nighy, Julia McKenzie, Pam Ferris, Phil Daniels, Robert Glenister, Sandi Toksvig, Tim McInnerny
Narrated by Full Cast, Anna Massey, Alex Jennings, Phil Daniels, Julia McKenzie, Tim McInnerny, Robert Glenister
★ 3.64 BLT Score (69 ratings)★ 4.47 Goodreads (15) ★ 4.5 Audible (54) - 5
Robert Browning: The Ring and the Book, The Pied Piper of Hamelin & more: BBC Radio dramatic reimaginings of five iconic poems
by Robert Browning, David Tennant, Alan Rickman, Anton Lesser, Roger Allam, Louise Brealey, Frances Jeater, Emily Mortimer, Tim McInnerny, Andrew Sachs, Dan Starkey, Stephen Critchlow, Ben Crowe, Chris Pavlo, Joan Walker, Full Cast
Narrated by David Tennant, Alan Rickman, Anton Lesser, Roger Allam, Louise Brealey, Frances Jeater, Emily Mortimer, Tim McInnerny, Andrew Sachs, Dan Starkey, Stephen Critchlow, Ben Crowe, Chris Pavlo, Joan Walker, Full Cast
★ 3.36 BLT Score (1 ratings)★ 5 Audible (1)More about this pick
BBC Radio cast Browning's darkest Victorian tales into gripping dramatic performances that make 19th-century poetry feel urgent and psychologically complex. Tennant, Rickman, and company transform these moral labyrinths into something you'll actually want to hear.