Where to Start with Juliet Stevenson
- New to Juliet Stevenson? Start here → Persuasion
- What fans keep coming back to → Sense and Sensibility: Jane Austen's Timeless Romance for Teens About Sisterhood, Passion, and Love
- Highest rated by listeners → North and South Annotated
- Best narrator–author pairing → Emma
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Persuasion
by Jane Austen, Deidre Shauna Lynch, James Kinsley
Narrated by Juliet Stevenson
★ 4.49 ABR Score (792.9K ratings)★ 4.15 Goodreads (786.9K) ★ 4.65 Audible (6.0K)More about this pick
Juliet Stevenson brings Austen's most emotionally mature heroine to life with restraint and warmth that makes every quiet moment ache.
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Sense and Sensibility: Jane Austen's Timeless Romance for Teens About Sisterhood, Passion, and Love
by Jane Austen
Narrated by Juliet Stevenson
★ 4.48 ABR Score (1.3M ratings)★ 4.09 Goodreads (1.3M) ★ 4.67 Audible (3.6K)More about this pick
Two sisters with opposite hearts, two kinds of heartbreak. Stevenson's narration transforms Austen's wit and pain into something you can't stop listening to.
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North and South Annotated
by Elizabeth Gaskell
Narrated by Juliet Stevenson
★ 4.48 ABR Score (193.1K ratings)★ 4.15 Goodreads (185.2K) ★ 4.64 Audible (7.9K)More about this pick
Juliet Stevenson captures Margaret's quiet defiance and the slow-burn romance with such depth that 18 hours dissolves completely.
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Emma
by Jane Austen
Narrated by Juliet Stevenson
★ 4.35 ABR Score (4.4K ratings)★ 4.59 Audible (4.4K) - 5
Jane Austen: The BBC Radio Drama Collection
by Jane Austen, Benedict Cumberbatch, David Tennant, Julia McKenzie, Juliet Stephenson, Eve Best, Jenny Agutter
Narrated by Julia McKenzie, Benedict Cumberbatch, Juliet Stevenson, Eve Best, Jenny Agutter, Toby Jones, full cast, David Tennant
★ 4.17 ABR Score (3.0K ratings)★ 4.28 Goodreads (613) ★ 4.56 Audible (2.4K)More about this pick
All six Austen novels performed as BBC radio drama by ensemble casts that make period literature feel as immediate as contemporary fiction.
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Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
Narrated by Juliet Stevenson
★ 3.88 ABR Score (364.2K ratings)★ 3.77 Goodreads (362.6K) ★ 4.12 Audible (1.6K)More about this pick
Juliet Stevenson's voice perfectly captures Woolf's consciousness: one day unfolds into a lifetime of memory, longing, and devastating emotional truth.
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From Shakespeare - With Love: The Best of the Sonnets
by William Shakespeare, David Tennant, Juliet Stevenson, Anton Lesser, Alex Jennings, Roy McMillan, Tom Mison, Anne-Marie Piazza, Hugh Ross, Benjamin Soames, David Timson, Trevor White, Maxine Peake, Stella Gonet, Bertie Carvel, Gunnar Cauthery, Jonathan Keeble
Narrated by David Tennant, Juliet Stevenson, Anton Lesser, Maxine Peake, Stella Gonet, Bertie Carvel, Alex Jennings
★ 3.69 ABR Score (135 ratings)★ 4.1 Goodreads (88) ★ 4.47 Audible (47)More about this pick
Eighty of Shakespeare's finest sonnets performed by stellar actors including David Tennant and Juliet Stevenson, marking the 400th anniversary of their publication.
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The Haunting Season: Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights
by Bridget Collins, Natasha Pulley, Imogen Hermes Gowar, Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Andrew Michael Hurley, Jess Kidd, Elizabeth Macneal, Laura Purcell
Narrated by Rosalind Eleazar, Rory Kinnear, Juliet Stevenson, Gemma Whelan
★ 3.66 ABR Score (9.9K ratings)★ 3.56 Goodreads (9.8K) ★ 4 Audible (36)More about this pick
Eight contemporary authors revive the Victorian tradition of winter ghost stories with tales of haunted houses, cursed objects, and supernatural revenge. Multiple narrators including Juliet Stevenson and Rory Kinnear bring atmospheric dread to each unsettling tale.
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Stories from Shakespeare 2
by David Timson, William Shakespeare
Narrated by Juliet Stevenson, Alex Jennings
★ 3.51 ABR Score (20 ratings)★ 3.42 Goodreads (12) ★ 4.5 Audible (8)More about this pick
Stevenson and Jennings do the work for you: crystalline narration that cuts through Shakespeare's difficulty and leaves all the wit and emotional weight intact.
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