Hobson's International
is a British voice-over agency and a audio production/recording studio based in Chiswick, West London. It was named after the famous Cockney rhyming slang of voice, "Hobson's Choice". Founded in 1986 by Sue Bionnici as a voice-over agency, it represented just only 12 voice-over artists, and the company later has over 600 artists on its books – Voices (when the company first started), Singers, Actors (Corporate & Commercial) (founded in 1996), Presenters and Kids.
A notable British voice talents actually got started their career as a voiceover artists within the Hobson's Voices agency, such as Ciara Janson, Louise Michelle, Tom Attenborough, Sophy Ridge, Eve Karpf, Tim Bentinck, Talia Janson, Martin Jarvis, Sam Blue (aka Blewitt), Kate Robbins, Steve Hope Wynne, Allan Corduner, Meghann Murdock, Tim Whitnall and more.
It's German-language answer is Bavaria Synchron and the Canadian answer is Studio 306.
Shows & Movies that uses the voice talents of Hobson's International are the following:
The Early days era (1986-1997)- Carry On Columbus (Allan Corduner as Sam)
- Albert Says... Nature Knows Best (Ted Maynard doing additional voices)
- The Caribou Kitchen (Kate Robbins as the narrator and the characters)
The Ciara Janson and Eve Karpf era (1997-2005)
- True Tilda (Christopher Fairbank (aka Chris Fairbank) as Gavel)
- Archibald the Koala (Kate Robbins as various characters)
- 64 Zoo Lane (Ciara Janson and Lewis MacLeod as Lucy and various characters) (seasons 1-2 only)
- Beautiful People (Rosalind Ayres as Nora Thomton)
- The Big Knights (Kate Robbins, Enn Reitel and Gordon Kennedy as various characters)
- Max on the Moon (Tom Attenborough and Charlotte Fudge as Max and Mona)
- Faeries (1999)" (Ciara Janson and Freddie Ridge as the 2 kids (including Nellie)
- Tales of the Little Grey Rabbit (Eve Karpf as various characters)
- Max and the Magician
- Wickie und die starken Männer: Die Mutprobe (English dub)
- Albert Asks... What is Life? (Eve Karpf as various characters)
- Animated Tales of the World (Ciara Janson, Sophy Ridge (credited as Sophie Ridge) and Eva Arnold as Mari, Kari and Mai in "The Three Sisters who fell into the Mountain; George Allonby and Talia Janson as Bee and a Boy in "King Solomon and the Bee"; Meghann Murdock and Adam Sandford as a boy and a girl in "Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep"; Sarah Evans and Jane Avis as a Marie and a girl in "Frau Holle"; Talia Janson as the princess in "The Story of Flax"; and more)
- Tractor Tom (Enn Reitel as various characters)
The New look era (2005-present)
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Steve Hope Wynne as the Museum Guard)