All of us here at Silksoundbooks would like to wish a big Happy Birthday to star audio book reader Rufus Sewell who is celebrating today.

Rufus Frederick Sewell was born on October 29th, 1967 in Twickenham, England. His mother, Jo, is Welsh and lives in Wales. His father, Bill, was an Australian animator who died when Rufus was 10. He has one brother, Caspar and his son, William Douglas Sewell, was born on March 18, 2002.

Rufus trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama where he was spotted by Dame Judi Dench who set him up in the business, by providing him with an agent, after directing him in a show at the school. His major breakthrough happened in 1993 when he played both Will Ladislaw in the BBC adaptation of George Eliot’s Middlemarch and Septimus Hodge, for which he won the Olivier award, in Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia.

Rufus has found huge success on both sides of the Atlantic and now divides his time between London and Los Angeles.

The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and his Friend Mr Abraham Adams is not only a long title, it is a wonderfully long and entertaining unabridged audio book.

Read by Rufus Sewell in his own inimitable entertaining style, this great novel by Henry Fielding takes us on a journey across England with Joseph Andrews and the rather dippy Parson Adams.
Not to be missed as they say in reviews!

Happy Birthday Rufus, from all of at Silksoundbooks.

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