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Mike Cooper - British Voiceover/Narrator

Mike Cooper Voiceover. The guy next door. Only better. And British.

Mike has a satisfied network of clients worldwide, including major broadcasters, production houses, independent production companies, and businesses both large and small. Having worked for the BBC, ITV, and BSkyB in a variety of roles, both in the sound booth and the studio control rooms - for both radio and TV - Mike demonstrates a full awareness of production values and the requirements of produ

cers. Over 20 years of media experience, plus the availability of professional recording facilities at his home means Mike can turn around a great quality product in a minimum of time. For clients on a tighter budget, this means of production is very cost effective compared to the traditional outlay for producing a voice track using a post facilities house and sound engineer.

08/08/2025

🎧 This week, in my narration for Bloomberg's Weekend Edition, a real-life Cold War thriller unfolds in “The CIA Spy Who Thwarted Taiwan’s Nuclear Plans”. 🇹🇼💣

In the 1980s, Gray Chang was a senior nuclear engineer in Taiwan — but what no one knew was that he was secretly working with the CIA to stop his own country’s covert nuclear weapons program.

It’s a gripping story of science, espionage, and the moral dilemmas of loyalty — and it was a pleasure to bring it to life in this week’s narration for Bloomberg.

🕵🏻‍♂️ Listen now: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2025-08-07/the-cia-spy-who-thwarted-taiwan-s-nuclear-plans-audio
📻 Or catch it on the Bloomberg app (for subscribers)
🖼️ Photo Illustration: Chantal Jahchan for Bloomberg

22/07/2025

🤖 Ever wondered just how all this AI stuff actually works? Me too.

🎧 My latest audiobook narration, "Generative Deep Learning by David Foster", breaks it down—from the basics of deep learning to the cutting-edge models behind image generators, music composition tools, and large language models like ChatGPT.

Whether you’re a machine learning engineer, data scientist, or just AI-curious, this practical guide covers:
🧠 VAEs, GANs, Transformers, and diffusion models
🖼️ How to train models to generate faces, flowers, or even DALL·E-style images
🎵 Composing music with MuseGAN
📝 Building your own GPT-style model for text generation
🚀 The future of generative AI and how to get ahead of the curve

This one gets pretty technical—but even a voice actor with zero programming experience (that’d be me) came away with a solid grasp of how these models work and what they mean for the future.

Newly updated to keep pace with the technology, "Generative Deep Learning" is available now from Ascent Audio, wherever you get your audiobooks.

18/07/2025

🧬 Science may be out of fashion in some quarters… but this week for Bloomberg's Weekend Edition, I narrate the story of "What Scientists Learned Scanning the Bodies of 100,000 Brits" — a fascinating dive into UK Biobank, one of the most ambitious health studies ever attempted.

📊 From AI-powered diagnosis to surprising insights into fat, aging, and disease risk, this piece explores how full-body scans are reshaping medicine — and what our bodies reveal long before symptoms appear. It’s a shift in how we understand health: not just treating illness, but predicting and potentially preventing it.

🎧 Listen now: https://loom.ly/lAm5Lck
…or on the Bloomberg app for subscribers.

✍🏻 Written by Jason Gale & Ashleigh Furlong
🎙️ Read by yours truly
🎨 Illustration: Lee Kyutae for Bloomberg

12/07/2025

🧬 This weekend’s Bloomberg Weekend Edition story is one I really connected with—because, now I'm in my 50s, getting older is something I must admit I think about more than I used to…

🎧 “My Year of Aging Dangerously” by Howard Chua-Eoan, which I had the pleasure of narrating, explores how aging doesn’t happen gradually—but in sudden leaps around 44 and 60. Howard writes candidly, wittily, and movingly about trying to outrun the data (and time itself).

💉 From "multi-omics" to midlife crises, bon vivant regrets to biblical psalms, this personal essay takes a sometimes funny, sometimes sobering, always insightful look at what it means to try and stay young—after youth has moved on.

🎧 Check it out at https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2025-06-08/the-year-of-aging-dangerously-audio
…or on the Bloomberg App for subscribers

🩺 Written by Howard Chua-Eoan
🎙️ Read by yours truly
🖼️ Illustration by Sophia Deng for Bloomberg

08/07/2025

🧠 Who gets to decide how software is built? Too often, architecting software can feel like a top-down directive—but what if it could be a shared, empowering process?

🎧 "Facilitating Software Architecture: Empowering Teams to Make Architectural Decisions" by Andrew Harmel-Law is my latest audiobook narration, and it’s a game-changer for dev teams, architects, and Agile leaders, with:
✅ Practical strategies to distribute architectural ownership
✅ Tools to guide collaborative decision-making
✅ Lessons from real-world teams across industries

📕 Written by a leading software consultant.
🎙 Narrated by me.
🏢 Published by Tantor Audio.
🔊 Available now—wherever you get your audiobooks.

01/07/2025

🧨 Say the word “socialism” in America and you’re likely to trigger a vehement reaction from many… But what if it’s time we listened to someone who made the case for socialism with clarity, compassion — and a Nobel Prize?

🧠 "Albert Einstein's 'Why Socialism?'" — my latest audiobook narration — features Einstein’s powerful 1949 essay, written at the height of America’s Red Scare. It was bold then. It’s urgent now.

🌍 With inequality deepening and global crises multiplying, Einstein’s call for a fairer system feels startlingly fresh — and worth revisiting.

📖 This edition includes a sharp, thoughtful commentary by Monthly Review editor John Bellamy Foster, exploring Einstein’s lifelong belief in social justice — and why it still matters.

🎧 "Albert Einstein's 'Why Socialism?'" is available now from HighBridge Audio, wherever you get your audiobooks.

04/06/2025

🌈 Happy Pride Month! As a gay voiceover artist, it’s always a joy to work on projects that celebrate the LGBTQ+ community.

👠 So I’m thrilled to have narrated Drag in the Dark—a fabulous new series screening on OUTtv—where the UK’s fiercest drag queens team up with paranormal investigators to explore haunted locations. It’s a celebration of q***r artistry, resilience, and the power of self-expression!

💋 Featuring stars like Divina De Campo, Tayce, and Copper Topp, Drag in the Dark brings glamour to ghost hunting—and highlights the strength of the LGBTQ+ community.

📺 Episode 1 is free to watch now on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efgEN8LGNHM
…and the full series is streaming on OUTtv and OUTflix.

27/05/2025

🌊 Take a deep dive into the past, with my latest audiobook narration—"Inside the Britannic" by Simon Mills is out today!

Everyone knows about the fateful voyage of the Titanic… but fewer know the fate of her sister ship, the Britannic—larger, stronger, and ultimately just as tragic…

🎧 In Inside the Britannic, maritime historian Simon Mills explores:
🛳️ The ship’s evolution from ocean liner to WWI hospital ship
⚙️ The innovations designed to avoid Titanic’s fate
💥 The moment she struck a mine and sank in the Aegean Sea
🤿 The discovery of the wreck—and Simon’s own journey as its legal owner and explorer

It’s a gripping, richly detailed story of ambition, war, disaster, and rediscovery—one I was thrilled to bring to life in the studio.

🎧 Inside the Britannic is available now from Tantor Audio, wherever you get your audiobooks.

23/05/2025

🌍 Bloomberg’s Weekend Edition chooses to work with human narrators for its weekly content—a smart move for a series that blends strong reporting with vivid, immersive storytelling.

This week’s story is a striking look at America’s unraveling relationship with Africa: how a brief resurgence in U.S. engagement has been swiftly undermined by short-term thinking, aid cuts, and diplomatic retreat, opening the door wider for China, the EU, and Gulf powers.

From canceled HIV programs to forgotten climate pledges, "Short-Term Thinking Is Driving the US’s Pivot Away from Africa" explores the real-world consequences of policy shifts on a continent rich in resources—and increasingly wary of empty promises.

🎧 Listen now: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2025-05-22/short-term-thinking-is-driving-the-us-s-africa-pivot-audio
…or in the Bloomberg App for subscribers

🎨 Illustration: Simon Pemberton for Bloomberg

20/05/2025

In 33 AD, faith came head to head with empire, as the crucifixion of Jesus and the dominance of Rome set the stage for a world-changing confrontation. In "The Year God Died"—this week's new audiobook narration release from me—historian James Lacey explores this moment not just as a religious event, but as a world-shifting clash between faith, empire, and rebellion…

🎧 Take a listen to discover:
⚔️ How the Roman Empire saw—and responded to—the rise of Christianity
🗡️ The political machinations behind the crucifixion
🌍 Why 33 AD marked a turning point not just in religious history, but in global power structures
🛡️ The tension between imperial control and spiritual revolution

I’m thrilled to have narrated this, my second title for Penguin Random House Audio, collaborating again with the team at Curated Audio to bring it to audio. Some of you might remember my narration of James’s The First Clash—so I was especially excited to step back into his vivid world of historical storytelling!

"The Year God Died" is a fascinating listen, and it's available now—wherever you find your audiobooks!

16/05/2025

🏉 Something sporty for the weekend?

This week’s narration for Bloomberg's Weekend Edition is about far more than just rugby—it’s about how sport is helping heal a country still shaped by its past.

"Once a Symbol of Apartheid, Rugby Is Now Helping Unite South Africa" is a powerful piece about how a game once reserved for white elites is now giving Black youth in townships like Alexandra hope, purpose, and a pathway to a better future.

📚 From Siya Kolisi’s rise to the impact of grassroots programs like “Get Into Rugby,” this story celebrates…
🏉 Schoolkids playing on concrete with no shoes—and winning
🌍 Rugby as a force for social cohesion and opportunity
⚖️ A powerful lens on inequality, transformation, and inspiration

🎧 Listen now at: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2025-05-15/a-symbol-of-apartheid-is-helping-unite-south-africa-audio or on the Bloomberg App for subscribers

(Photographer: Jodi Bieber for Bloomberg)

01/05/2025

🦠 How did humanity go from fearing invisible forces to fighting back with science?

This week's second new audiobook narration release from me is "So Very Small" by Thomas Levenson—a sweeping history of how we discovered the microbial world, learned to combat it, and why that battle is far from over.

🎧 Levenson takes us on a fascinating journey:
🦠 From the plagues of the 17th century and the terror of unseen killers
🔬 To the birth of germ theory and the dawn of modern medicine
💊 Into today’s fight against antibiotic resistance and emerging threats
👥 Alongside the human stories of scientists, doctors, and patients at the heart of these discoveries

It’s a gripping blend of science, history, and humanity—a reminder that the smallest things can have the biggest impact…

Produced and published in the UK by Bloomsbury Press/Apollo, this one is also my second release this week for Penguin Random House Audio in the USA. "So Very Small" is available now, wherever you get your audiobooks.

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