Neville Jason trained at RADA where he was awarded the diction prize by Sir John Gielgud. His first appearance in the theatre was in Peter Brook’s production of Titus Andronicus starring Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. He was a member of the Old Vic Company, the English Stage Company, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Birmingham Repertory Company. Roles included John Worthing in The Importance of Being Ernest, Darcy in Pride and Prejudice, Christian in Cyrano de Bergerac and Robert Browning in Robert and Elizabeth. He was a trained singer and appeared in numerous musicals including The Great Waltz, 1776, Ambassador, Lock Up Your Daughters, Kiss Me Kate, Irma La Douce, Robert and Elizabeth and Mutiny.

Television appearances included Maigret, Dr Who (The Androids of Tara), Hamlet (Horatio), Crime and Punishment (Zamyatov), Emergency Ward Ten, Dixon of Dock Green, When the Boat Comes In, Angels, Minder, Dempsey and Makepeace, The Richest Woman in the World, The Dancing Years, The Magic Barrel and Windmill Near a Frontier. Films included From Russia with Love and The Message. He was a member of the BBC Radio Drama Company three times, and was heard in radio plays, documentaries and arts programmes. For Naxos AudioBooks his readings included Vasari’s Lives of the Great Artists, Freud, War and Peace, Gulliver’s Travels, Far From the Madding Crowd, Favourite Essays, The Once and Future King, Evgenii Onegin and Remembrance of Things Past, both unabridged and abridged. He played Antonio in The Tempest, and directed productions of Lady Windermere’s Fan, Hamlet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. As a director he was awarded Talkies awards for Great Expectations and Poets of the Great War. As a reader he won AudioFile Earphone awards for The Captive, Time Regained, The Once and Future King and War and Peace (Best Audiobooks of the Year 2007 and 2009).