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The duo appeared alongside each other in their sketch-comedy programme, A Bit of Fry and Laurie, in Blackadder as George (Laurie) and members of the Melchett family (Fry), and in Jeeves & Wooster as Bertie Wooster (Laurie) and his manservant, Jeeves (Fry). ĭuring his early career in comedy, he teamed with comic Hugh Laurie, who is currently most famous for his role as Gregory House on the FOX drama "House". 24 August, 1957 in Hampstead, London) is an English actor who narrates the UK editions of the Harry Potter audiobooks and also narrated three instalments of the Harry Potter video games: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. You can find the Harry Potter stream - plus a bunch of other family-friendly audiobooks as part of Audible’s free Stories program - right here. with the caveat that it’s streaming only, so plan on listening somewhere with an internet connection. It’ll work across laptops, phones, tablets, etc.To be clear, Dale’s version is very good! Just know that it’s different. Even if you sign up for an Audible account, the rest of the series on Audible is read by Jim Dale. If you’re in North America and get hooked on Fry’s take on the narration, finding/importing the Fry version of the other books is going to be up to you.The same program is allowing teachers to post videos of themselves reading the series aloud to their students (as long as it’s on a “closed educational platform”… so not like, YouTube) without worrying about getting into a copyright battle. Rowling’s #HarryPotterAtHome program, in which the author is “relaxing the usual copyright permissions” to make the story available to more children who are likely stuck at home during the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak. It got a bit easier today, albeit for just the first book: Audible has put the Stephen Fry version of “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” up online, for free, until further notice.Īudible says it’s doing this as part of J.K. Different countries, different distribution rights, different licensing - yada yada yada.

(legally) is usually a pretty big pain in the butt. I will say, however, that getting the Stephen Fry versions in the U.S. Which is better? I won’t get into that - that’s something the internet has been arguing about for a decade+ now. The version most widely available in the U.S. If you’ve ever tried to buy the Harry Potter audiobooks, you probably noticed something kind of tricky: there are two very different versions.