Daniel Radcliffe will return to the world of Harry Potter to narrate the first chapter of The Philosopher’s Stone. The 30-year-old actor, who played the boy wizard in the film series, has recorded a video of himself reading Chapter One: The Boy Who Lived.
It will feature on JK Rowling’s Harry Potter At Home online hub, launched for children, parents, carers and teachers during the Covid-19 outbreak.
David Beckham, whose eight-year-old daughter Harper is a fan of the series, is also among the cast of narrators, and will be joined by Dakota Fanning and Eddie Redmayne.
Redmayne stars in Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts films, which are set before the events of the Harry Potter books. Stephen Fry, who narrated the original UK Harry Potter audiobooks,