Alzheimer’s, Awards, Audiobooks, and America

Around 980,000 people currently live with dementia in the UK — a figure expected to surpass 1.4 million by 2040. In light of this, I’m especially proud to share that I’m in the running for ‘Television Promo – Best Overall Performance‘ for the promo ad I voiced last year for the Alzheimer’s Society at the One Voice Awards 2025.

Once in a while an absolute jewel comes along for me to narrate. The Last Days of Kira Mullin is an edge-of-your-seat psychological thriller, with exceptional dialogue, nuanced characterization and superb writing from the pen of husband-and-wife team Nicci Gerrard and Sean French.

Together they publish under the single name Nicci French, and you’ll find the books regularly topping the bestseller lists. I’m happy to say that in January this title was selected as Apple’s ‘Audiobook of the Week’.

Over the past few months, I have also been spreading my wings, joining the roster of a handful of American publishing houses and studios, including Dreamscape, Podium, Tantor, BeeAudio, Deyan and Audio Bee productions. And I’m pleased to have been hired already to narrate a few titles with Dreamscape and a series with Tantor.

Finally, two students I tutor at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff have gone forward to the final of the prestigious BBC Carleton Hobbs Award. They are in the final 28 out of 72 of the best graduates in the UK – such a credit to them! Wishing them luck – more news soon!

“Just so so so great, loved the narration so perfect, dreadfully sad, appalling and captivating. Katherine came to life in my kitchen, in my car, walking around the supermarket and in between the moments of my husband trying to talk to me.”

Audible Review – Six Tudor Queens: Katheryn Howard, the Tainted Queen by Alison Weir

“I learnt so much. This was fantastically researched and beautifully performed. Reminds you why books are so important.”

Audible Review – Papyrus by Irene Vallejo

“Narrator Sophie Roberts’s strong, polished, highly sophisticated voice effectively conveys the aura of fashionable society but maintains a firm narrative objectivity. Droll, fascinating, full of memorable characters and anecdotes, here is a perspective on a world and time that moved from drawing-room comedy to the private dramas of war and occupation.”

AudioFile Magazine, 2020 – Chanel’s Riviera, Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award

“This was brilliantly brought to life by the narrator, Sophie Roberts who tackled the French & Russian names with ease. A great way to entwine two biographies in such an entertaining way.”

Audible Review – Catherine the Great & Potemkin by Simon Sebag Montefiore

“I have had the pleasure of working with Sophie for many years, and that is a testament in itself to her standing in the audiobook world. Well prepared, reliable, accurate, exceptional characterisations. The only problem with her success, is trying to hire someone who has become so indispensable…”

David Roper, Managing Director, Heavy Entertainment