by Win Rosenfeld

Jim Dale has had as distinguished a career as a thespian could hope for. In addition to a 1980 Tony win, he's won two Grammys for his voice work on the audiobooks of the Harry Potter series. Dale is also the holder of two Guinness World Records: one for having created and recorded 147 different character voices for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and one for occupying the first six places in the Top Ten Audio Books of America and Canada in 2005. Queen Elizabeth recently awarded him the status of membership in the british empire, and now he's the narrator on ABC's Emmy-nominated series, Pushing Daisies.

He also did the voicework for a new book by author Tom Flynn on 9/11. At the recording session for that project, he treated us to a poem.

Enjoy!