For two months in 2013, Lesser was heard as a regular cast member playing Robin Carrow in Ambridge Extra, a BBC Radio 4 Extra spin-off from the BBC Radio 4 drama The Archers. Other books range from John Milton’s Paradise Lost and Homer to contemporary novels by Robert Harris (Fatherland) and Philip Pullman.
He has also recorded many audiobooks, including much of the work of Charles Dickens, and his recording of Great Expectations won him a Talkie Award.
Lesser is a frequent radio contributor and played the title role in the BBC Radio adaptations of the first five Falco mysteries by Lindsey Davis. Anton Lesser Actor CareerĪs an associate artist with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), Lesser played a considerable number of Shakespeare’s great roles, including Troilus (Troilus and Cressida), Edgar (King Lear), Petruchio, Romeo, Henry Bolingbroke, Brutus (Julius Caesar), Leontes (Winter’s Tale) and Richard III. He features More in Wolf Hall, as Harold Macmillan in The Crown, and as Chief Superintendent Bright in Endeavour.
He is particularly well known for his roles as Qyburn in the HBO series Game of Thrones, as Thomas.
