Ben Miller has narrated 5 audiobooks on Listento.it by 3 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.2★ across 3 ratings. The most-rated is The Aliens Are Coming!.
The Aliens Are Coming!
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Actor and best-selling science writer Ben Miller takes listeners to the cutting edge of one of the greatest questions of all: Is there life beyond Earth? For millennia, we have looked up at the stars and wondered whether we are alone in the universe, but in the last few years - as our probes begin to escape the solar system, and our telescopes reveal thousands of Earthlike planets - scientists have taken huge leaps toward an answer. "Forget science fiction," author Ben Miller writes. "We are living through one of the most extraordinary revolutions in the history of science: the emergent belief of a generation of physicists, biologists, and chemists that we are not alone." The Aliens Are Coming! is a refreshingly clear, hugely entertaining guide to the search for alien life. Miller looks everywhere for insight, from the Big Bang's sea of energy that somehow became living matter, to the equations that tell us Earth is not so rare, to the clues bacteria hold to how life started. And he makes the case that our growing understanding of life itself will help us predict whether it exists elsewhere, what it might look like, and when we might find it.
©2016 Ben Miller (P)2017 Random House Audio
Ben Miller
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Joining us at Audible Studios is Ben Miller, English actor, comedian and author. Miller's latest book is titled The Boy Who Made the World Disappear. Miller went to St Catherine's College, Cambridge, to read natural sciences, and as an undergraduate he participated in theatre alongside Rachel Weisz, whom he dated. Miller stayed at Cambridge to read for a PhD in solid state physics but abandoned it three years in to pursue his career in comedy. He joined the well-renowned Cambridge Footlights in 1989, with fellow comedians Sue Perkins and Andy Parsons, and gained a solid footing in the acting world. Miller was introduced to Alexander Armstrong in 1992, and they performed their first full-length show together at the Edinburgh Fringe in 1994. The duo were then commissioned for a television show, Armstrong and Miller. Miller played the lead role in Death in Paradise before leaving to spend more time with his family. Beyond television, Miller has acted in films such as Johnny English (2003) and its sequel, Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism (2014), and on stage in The Ladykillers (2011) and The Duck House. His directorial debut was the film Huge. We'll be chatting to Ben Miller about his book The Boy Who Made the World Disappear, his partnership with Alexander Armstrong and what he would put into a black hole.
©2019 Audible Ltd (P)2019 Audible Ltd
The Boy Who Made the World Disappear
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Following the breakout success of his instant festive classic, The Night I Met Father Christmas, get ready for the brilliant new novel from comedian, actor and best-selling author Ben Miller! ‘Stories are often about someone who does a Bad Thing, and this is no exception....’ Harrison tries his best to be good. He doesn’t steal from shops, he shares with his sister and he never cheats at board games...but Harrison also has a BIG flaw. He can't control his temper! So when he’s given a black hole instead of a balloon at a party, he seizes the chance to get rid of everything that makes him cross. But when it’s not just things he hates that are disappearing into the black hole but things he loves, too, Harrison realises that sometimes you should be careful what you wish for....
©2019 Ben Miller (P)2019 Simon & Schuster UK
The Night I Met Father Christmas
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Jackson has always wanted to meet Father Christmas. He knows all about the reindeer, he knows about the elves and the secret North Pole workshop, he knows about the magic that allows Father Christmas to deliver presents around the world in just one night, but there's one thing he doesn't know...how did Father Christmas become Father Christmas? One Christmas Eve, Jackson’s wish comes true, and not only does he get to meet Father Christmas but he also hears his incredible story. So begins an enchanting fairy-tale journey into the world of Torvil - a mean-spirited and miserly elf who, on one magical night, discovers the true meaning of Christmas. This might not have been the story Jackson was expecting, but, as Father Christmas tells him, no good story ever is.... Get ready for a charming and magical story from actor and comedian Ben Miller that will remind everyone of the true spirit of Christmas and prove once and for all that Father Christmas really does exist!
©2018 Ben Miller (P)2018 Simon & Schuster UK
The Snow Dragon
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You can be late for many things in life, but you should never keep an adventure waiting. In Griselda Bone's gloomy orphanage, daydreaming is banned, skipping is forbidden and Christmas is well and truly cancelled. But for Phoebe and her sausage dog Herb, is it possible that, just when things seem at their bleakest, magic awaits in the swirling, snow-filled air? Join them on an enchanting adventure in this beautifully moving story by the best-selling author of Sky Song and the Unmapped Chronicles, Abi Elphinstone, and read by actor and author Ben Miller.
©2020 Abi Elphinsone (P)2020 Simon & Schuster UK