Hugh Bonneville’s career started in theatre joining The National in 1987 and then The Royal Shakespeare Company where he played Laertes to Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet. His television credits include hos excellent portrayal of BBC Director General Sir Hugh Carleton Greene in the BBC production Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story and Bonekickers .He became familiar to audiences worldwide in films such as Mansfield Park, Iris and Notting Hill.

A product of the British private school system himself, Hugh brings a particular strength and passion to his reading of Thomas Hughes’ Tom Brown’s Schooldays recorded exclusively for Silksoundbooks as an audio book download.