I love him because he narrates Martha Wells' "Murderbot Diaries". JOHNSEN: Kevin has been wearing that hat since 2000. That is the hat for which you are interviewing me. I am a multi-hyphenate artist, and I suppose I'm on the Nerdette podcast because I am an audiobook narrator. JOHNSEN: One of my favorite voices is this guy. SARAH JAFFE: What that actually means is mostly - I think my 10-year-old self would be thrilled - I get paid to read books all day, talk to really brilliant authors and then do sort of the dream casting that I think we all do in our heads of like, OK, what kind of voice would I need to play this character? And then I get to find and hire that voice. She's an executive producer at Penguin Random House Audio. Host Greta Johnsen picks it up from here. Their recent series Undercover looks at how a book comes to life from the blurbs on the cover to film adaptations, and this week's focus is audiobooks. Today, we go to Chicago member station WBEZ to hear their podcast Nerdette. It's time for our podcast corner, where we bring you a podcast we love from the NPR network.
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