Gordon Griffin

Gordon Griffin has had a long and successful career as an actor in theatre and television. He's appeared in TV classics ranging from Family at War to The Crown and in the theatre has played in Shakespeare at Chichester and was in the very first national tour of the musical Godspell. He's presented Play School and sung on BBC tv's successful music-hall series The Good Old Days. But it's as a multi-award winning audiobook reader that Gordon is best known. He has over 950 recordings to his credit...See more

Gordon Griffin has had a long and successful career as an actor in theatre and television. He's appeared in TV classics ranging from Family at War to The Crown and in the theatre has played in Shakespeare at Chichester and was in the very first national tour of the musical Godspell. He's presented Play School and sung on BBC tv's successful music-hall series The Good Old Days. But it's as a multi-award winning audiobook reader that Gordon is best known. He has over 950 recordings to his credit ranging from Dickens, Hardy and Orwell to Hilary Mantel, Melvyn Bragg and Chris Ryan. For his services to audiobooks he received an MBE from The Queen in the Birthday Honours of 2017. His autobiography Speaking Volumes was published in 2019 followed in 2020 by the audio version read of course by Gordon himself! See less