Daniel Rigby Audiobooks

Isaac Steele and the Best Idea in the Universe, comic sci-fi from a BAFTA-winning actor

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Who is Daniel Rigby?

Daniel Rigby, born in 1982, is an English actor and comedian. His breakthrough came with the 2011 BBC television film Eric and Ernie, in which he played Eric Morecambe – a role that would intimidate any performer, given Morecambe’s place in British affections, and one that won Rigby a BAFTA TV Award.

That prize tells you the essentials: a performer with genuine comic instincts and the discipline to inhabit someone else’s rhythms, Morecambe’s timing being about as exacting a test as British comedy can set. It is that combination which makes his move into audio storytelling worth paying attention to.

Daniel Rigby in audiobooks

Isaac Steele and the Best Idea in the Universe is his entry in our catalogue, and the title alone signals the register: comic science fiction with its tongue somewhere near its cheek. Audio is arguably the ideal home for a project like this – Rigby is an actor first, a BAFTA-winning one at that, and the format lets performance do the work that prose description usually labours over. For UK listeners raised on the great tradition of funny British sci-fi in audio, it is a natural pick: a comedian’s material with an actor’s control behind it.