AUDIOBOOKS: ABRIDGEMENTS

Barry Johnston has abridged more than forty audiobooks and he specialises in sporting and showbusiness autobiographies by major personalities such as Andrew Flintoff, Sir Bobby Robson, Shane Warne, Maureen Lipman and Nigel Havers. His most recent abridgements include the bestselling novel Marshmallows For Breakfast by Dorothy Koomson and the controversial autobiography Wonderful Today by Pattie Boyd.   

Alliss, Peter:  My Life  (Hodder & Stoughton)
Atherton, Michael:  Opening Up (Hodder & Stoughton)
Benaud, Richie:  My Spin on Cricket (Hodder & Stoughton)
Bird, Dickie:  White Cap and Bails  (Hodder & Stoughton)
Blofeld, Henry:  A Thirst for Life  (Hodder & Stoughton)
Blofeld, Henry:  Cricket’s Great Entertainers  (Hodder & Stoughton)
Boyd, Pattie:  Wonderful Today (Headline Review)  *
Daniels, Kit:  Soldier, Soldier: Red Alley  (Carlton)
Denison, Michael:  Double Act  (Michael Joseph)
Edwards, Gareth:  The Autobiography  (Hodder & Stoughton)
Flintoff, Andrew:  Being Freddie (Hodder & Stoughton)
Flintoff, Andrew: Freddie’s World (Hodder & Stoughton)
Frindall, Bill: Bearders: My Life in Cricket (Orion)
Havers, Nigel:  Playing with Fire (Headline Review)  *
Heald, Tim:  Brian Johnston: The Authorised Biography  (Methuen)
Humphrys, John:  Lost For Words  (Hodder & Stoughton)  *
Humphrys, John:  Beyond Words (Hodder & Stoughton)
Humphrys, John:  In God We Doubt (Hodder & Stoughton)
Johnston, Barry:  Johnners: The Life of Brian  (Hodder & Stoughton)
Keating, Frank:  Classic Moments from a Century of Sport  (Robson Books)
Koomson, Dorothy:  My Best Friend’s Girl (Time Warner)  *
Koomson, Dorothy:  Marshmallows for Breakfast (Time Warner)  *
Lipman, Maureen:  You Can Read Me Like a Book  (Robson Books)
Malies, Jeremy:  Sporting Doubles  (Robson Books)
Matthews, Stanley:  The Way It Was  (Hodder & Stoughton)
Moore, Brian:  The Final Score  (Hodder & Stoughton)
Parkinson, Michael:  Parkinson on Football (Hodder & Stoughton)  *
Parrish, Steve & Harris, Nick:  Barry: The Story of Motorcycling Legend Barry Sheene (Sphere)  *
Pertwee, Bill:  Dad’s Army: The Making of a Television Legend  (Foreland Films)
Robson, Bobby:  Farewell but not Goodbye (Hodder & Stoughton)
Robson, Bryan: Robbo (Hodder & Stoughton)
Sanghera, Jasvinder:  Shame (Hodder & Stoughton)
Secombe, Harry:  Strawberries and Cheam  (Robson Books)
Sinden, Donald:  The Last Word  (Robson Books)
Warne, Shane:  My Autobiography  (Hodder & Stoughton)
Wilson, Bob:  Behind the Network  (Hodder & Stoughton)
Winspear, Jacqueline:  Maisie Dobbs (John Murray)  *
Winspear, Jacqueline:  Birds of a Feather (John Murray)  *
Wisden:  All-Time Great Performances  (Wisden)
Wisden:  Cricketers’ Almanack 2004  (Wisden)
Woodward, Clive:  Winning!  (Hodder & Stoughton)

 All of the above titles were also produced by Barry Johnston except for those marked with an asterisk.