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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.

17/09/2025

🎙️ I'm excited to get started today on narration for "A Short History of Stupidity" by Stuart Jeffries—a wonderfully sharp, ironic, and unexpectedly insightful look at one of humanity’s most enduring qualities.

From the ancient Greeks to modern influencers, from the Enlightenment to Elon Musk, Jeffries traces how stupidity has shaped our world just as much as brilliance—sometimes more so. With a mix of insight, irony, and just the right amount of exasperation 😵‍💫, Jeffries explores why—despite all our progress—we keep making the same bad decisions, just with slicker marketing.

It’s clever, provocative, and surprisingly relevant—and I’m looking forward to bringing its wry tone to life in the audiobook.

🎧 Coming soon from Tantor Audio…

12/09/2025

🏙️ They’ve got pneumatic waste tubes, six-lane highways and tax breaks galore—but you still can’t get a decent gin and tonic after work…

This week’s narration piece for Bloomberg's Weekend Edition explores India’s ambitious attempt to create a walk-to-work smart city out of marshland. GIFT City, a gleaming financial hub rising outside Ahmedabad, is trying to lure banks, asset managers, and international capital with promises of modern infrastructure and low regulation.

But as the article reveals, building the buildings is one thing—building a liveable city people want to stay in after dark is something else entirely.

Narrated by me from my home studio in the Blue Ridge Mountains, this one is filled with great detail, sharp observation, and a surprising amount of drama about liquor permits.

🎧 Now streaming via the Bloomberg app for subscribers, or at https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2025-09-11/india-learns-how-hard-it-is-to-build-a-finance-hub-audio
📍 Written by Subhadip Sircar & Saikat Das
🎙 Photographer: Elke Scholiers/Bloomberg

03/09/2025

📺 Documentary narration has always been a favourite genre of voiceover work for me. When I was based in London, I voiced regularly for HISTORY, National Geographic and other channels — and it’s an area I’m keen to return to more regularly going forward.

So I was especially delighted to be asked to narrate this new release for EM Productions: "Mussolini and Hi**er: Blood and Betrayal".

📽️ In the dying days of the Axis alliance, Hi**er staged the dramatic rescue of Mussolini from Gran Sasso—not to win the war, but to control the story. This film unpacks the propaganda, performance, and betrayal at the heart of totalitarian collapse—revealing just how much power comes from owning the narrative.

🔍 It’s a cautionary tale… About how authoritarian regimes rewrite reality to suit their needs. About the theatre of strength, the illusion of loyalty, and the ease with which truth can be twisted to serve power.
And it feels more relevant than ever.

🇬🇧 Produced by EM Productions (UK)
🎧 Voiced by me in my home studio here in the Blue Ridge Mountains
📺 Now streaming (rent or buy) on Amazon Prime Video—watch the trailer at https://vimeo.com/1110981506

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26/08/2025

🗡️ Assassination has shaped modern history—from Sarajevo to Abbottabad, from the pistol to the drone. My latest narration, Death to Order: A Modern History of Assassination by Simon Ball, traces how targeted killing evolved into both a tool of power and a weapon against it.

From Archduke Franz Ferdinand to Osama bin Laden, Gandhi to Qasem Soleimani, this deeply researched history examines the motives, methods, and consequences of political murder—and asks what it reveals about the states and movements behind it.

✍️ Written by Simon Ball
🎧 Narrated by me
📕 Available now from Tantor Audio, wherever you get your audiobooks.

23/08/2025

🌊 Something (cold and wet) for the weekend?

🩲 As the narrator who brought "Waterlog"—Roger Deakin’s classic on free swimming—to audio, this week's narration for Bloomberg's Weekend Edition felt like pulling on a familiar pair of Speedos!

🏊‍♀️ Picture cold, open water swimming in the shadow of towering financial monuments, as “Surrounded by Skyscrapers, London’s Canary Wharf Becomes a Swim Spot.” From wild swimmers to office workers on their lunch breaks, the docks are being transformed into a bold new kind of urban oasis…

✍️ Written by Olivia Rudgard & Natasha White
🎧 Narrated by me
📷 Photographer: Holly-Marie Cato for Bloomberg

📍 Listen at https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2025-08-21/london-s-canary-wharf-becomes-a-swim-spot-audio — or in the Bloomberg app for subscribers

17/08/2025

📻 Something for the weekend?

🪖 Memory, morality, and the madness of war linger over my narration for Bloomberg's Weekend Edition this week, as I retell how “A Forgotten Battle Taught One Man Everything About Humanity”.

🇻🇳 Half a century after surviving one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War, a former teacher-turned-soldier returns to Quang Tri Citadel—seeking answers, and perhaps atonement. What he witnessed, and what he chose not to do, have haunted him for decades.

✍️ Written by Matthew Campbell
🎧 Narrated by me
🎨 Illustration by Lee Kyutae for Bloomberg

📍 Listen at https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2025-08-14/one-man-s-quest-to-decode-a-long-forgotten-battle-audio or in the Bloomberg app (subscribers only)

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.

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