Today, all of here at Silksoundbooks want to wish a very happy birthday to our star audio book reader Toby Stephens.

Toby was born into an acting family in London on April 21st 1969, the son of Dame Maggie Smith and Robert Stephens. He trained at the London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art and his career has included film, television, stage and of course, audiobooks! Recent credits include the BBC adaptation of Jane Eyre and the Bond movie Die Another Day.

Toby's recent theatre appearances include A Doll’s House at the Donmar and The Country Wife at the Theatre Royal Haymarket.

Toby is currently starring in a new production of Tom Stoppard's deeply moving and startlingly funny play The Real Thing at the Old Vic in London.

The unabridged audio book Heart of Darkness, read by Toby Stephens, has been at the top of the Silksoundbooks bestsellers list since it was first released. Toby brings his inimitable brooding intensity to Joseph Conrad’s terrifying and exhilarating exploration of evil that served as the inspiration for Francis Ford Coppola’s movie Apocalypse Now. It's a great audiobook download - and only from silksoundbooks.com

Happy Birthday Toby.

Happy Birthday Toby, a great audiobook performer!

Belated happy b-day to Mr. Stephens. Silksound, please have him record another audiobook! If you haven't heard "Heart of Darkness" read by Mr. Stephens, get it today -- it is haunting and absolutely chilling, but with great feeling for Conrad's masterly use of language. No one -- not even Marlon Brando -- matches Stephens in conveying the full weight of the phrase "the horror, the horror."