Anna Bentinck, actor and audiobook narrator

Anna Bentinck trained at Arts Educational Schools in London, according to her Naxos performer biography. Her professional work includes BBC radio, screen acting and audiobook narration. That combination makes her a useful performer to explore if you came to this page through a single Jodi Taylor recording: the wider listening choices include classic novels, children’s fiction and contemporary stories, with different subjects and formats to try.

Penguin Random House’s professional biography identifies leading roles in Romeo and Juliet and The Taming of the Shrew for the BBC English Repertory Theatre. It also describes work across radio, television, film and theatre, and names the children’s animation 64 Zoo Lane. Those credits introduce several parts of her acting career without treating an audiobook catalogue as the whole of her professional work.

Her listed Naxos readings include E. Nesbit’s Five Children and It and The Phoenix and the Carpet. Audible also offers her recording of Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles. These provide clearly different choices: comic childhood fantasy in the Nesbit stories, or a classic novel for a more sustained reading project. The linked listings identify the performer and edition before you choose.

David Nicholls’s One Day is another of her Audible credits, offering a contemporary alternative to the classic works. Following a narrator across writers can be a pleasant way to discover a new book, but the story itself still deserves a look. The other-recordings links below make that comparison straightforward, with each title leading to its own Audible edition rather than a general search result.

For a first Jodi Taylor listen, our suggestion is A Bachelor Establishment. This Regency romance stands apart from the numbered time-travel sequences, so you can begin without following either St Mary’s or the Time Police. Its self-contained setting also makes it a practical choice for a listener who wants one complete story before deciding whether to explore a longer Taylor series.