Leighton Pugh trained at LAMDA, after studying Modern Languages at QueenтАЩs College, Oxford. Radio work includes the plays Murder by the Book and Scenes from Provincial Life for BBC Radio 4 and the voice of Heinrich von Kleist in the BBC Radio 3 documentary The Tragical Adventure of Heinrich von Kleist. Leighton has been in five productions for the National Theatre, most recently The Lehman Trilogy (NT Live 2018тАУ19, New York, West End). For Naxos AudioBooks he has recorded, among other things, The Diary of Samuel Pepys, ZolaтАЩs Germinal, Nana and LтАЩAssommoir, and featured in WaltonтАЩs The Compleat Angler.