Peter Hosking (actor)

Peter Hosking (born 19 December 1947) is an Australian actor and audiobook narrator.

Education

Hosking graduated from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Dip. Civil Engineering.

Career

Hosking started acting professionally at The Pram Factory in Melbourne in 1978.[1]

In 1996, Hosking received TDK Australian Audio Book Award for Home Before Dark.[2]

In 2002 he created Nu Country TV, a country music show on community tv station C31 Melbourne.[3] He produced, filmed and edited this show for four years.[4] The show is still running in 2017.

In 2010 he was interviewed by phone by Vision Australia regarding his 25 years of narrating audio books many of his narrations have been reviewed by Audiofile Magazine in the USA,[5]

After 30 years in Australian theatre, film, tv and voice work, moved to Prague in Czech Republic where he works with the Cimrman English Theatre performing English language translations of the works of Jára Cimrman, a man voted the greatest Czech of all time.[6][7]

References

  1. ↑ "Australian Theatre History. The Australian Performing Group at the Pram Factory". The Pram Factory. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
  2. ↑ "Link-up – December 1996". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
  3. ↑ "Nu Country TV". C31 Melbourne. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
  4. ↑ Hallett, Bryce. "A Stretch of the Imagination, Downstairs Belvoir". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
  5. ↑ "AudioFile, Discover the World of Audiobooks". AudioFile Magazine. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
  6. ↑ "Radio Prague – English "stands in" for Czech in first translation of Cimrman classic". Radio Prague. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
  7. ↑ GEORGE, GABRIELLE. "Review: The Conquest of the North Pole | Art and Culture in Prague, Czech Republic | Prague Business Directory from Prague.TV". Prague TV. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
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