Colm Feore Performs Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Autobiography, Common Ground, for Audible
April 17 2018 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Recording features a new foreword written
and voiced by Trudeau, available exclusively in the Audible
edition
Audible Inc., the world’s largest seller and producer of
downloadable audiobooks and other spoken-word entertainment, today
announced the release of Common Ground, the first audio edition of
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s candid 2014 memoir in both English
and French. The Audible book is performed by award-winning stage
and screen actor Colm Feore and features a new foreword written and
narrated by Trudeau exclusively for Audible. Both Common Ground and
Terrain d’entente are available for download on www.audible.ca.
Common Ground details Mr. Trudeau’s childhood at 24 Sussex
Drive, his McGill days during the tumultuous time of the
Charlottetown Accord, his first campaign in Papineau and his role
as Liberal leader, capturing the foundational moments that informed
his vision for the future of Canada. Prime Minister Trudeau will
donate his proceeds from the sale of the audiobook to the Canadian
Red Cross.
“It’s an honour for me to bring the words and memories of this
dynamic young leader to life,” said Feore. “There’s certainly a
degree of coming full circle with this project, having portrayed
the Prime Minister’s father on film. But he is very much his own
man, and it was both challenging and rewarding to give voice to the
stories and experiences which have shaped Justin Trudeau into who
he is today.”
Feore has an extensive history of starring roles at the
Stratford Theatre Festival, and is well-known for his many film and
television performances. He won a Gemini Award (now Canadian Screen
Award) for his performance as Pierre Elliott Trudeau in the TV
mini-series Trudeau.
“We are thrilled to offer this incredible performance of Common
Ground by Colm Feore, whose rich performance lifts Trudeau’s words
off the page, immersing listeners in the important experiences that
define his leadership today,” said Audible EVP and Publisher Beth
Anderson. “We are especially pleased to bring the new foreword
written and narrated by Mr. Trudeau to the Audible book, for a
fresh perspective on his autobiography.”
Among the acclaimed performers who have narrated works of
literature for Audible are Zachary Quinto, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Lily
Collins, Emma Thompson, and Jesse Eisenberg. Audible Studios has
won a Grammy Award, for its production of Janis Ian’s memoir
Society’s Child, and has also been recognized with the Audie Award
for Audiobook of the Year, for Colin Firth’s performance of Graham
Greene’s The End of the Affair. Audible invented and commercialized
the first digital audio player in 1997, and has since been at the
forefront of the explosively growing audiobook download segment. In
2017, listeners around the world downloaded over two billion hours
of Audible content.
ABOUT AUDIBLE.CA
Audible.ca, an Amazon.com, Inc. subsidiary (NASDAQ:AMZN),
is the leading provider of premium digital spoken audio content,
offering customers a new way to enhance and enrich their lives
every day. Audible was created to unleash the emotive music in
language and the habituating power and utility of verbal
expression. Audible.ca content includes more than 325,000 audio
programs from leading audiobook publishers, broadcasters,
entertainers, magazine and newspaper publishers, and business
information providers. Audible is also the provider of spoken-word
audio products for Apple’s iTunes Store.
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