Extraordinary scripts
I love great radio creative and I love brave clients even more. When the two collide, it means I get to voice extraordinary scripts. A regular customer of mine emailed me: "Can you sound trashy? And European? You've got to sound like a desperate wannabe model type person." Reader,…
[Read more]Unveiled: The new female voice of BBC Radio Manchester
Today's a big day at BBC Radio Manchester. They're unveiling a brand new station imaging package...and guess what? I'm on it! I'm sharing the airwaves with the brilliant John Thomson and honestly, I couldn't be more honoured to be the female branding voice of my local radio station. (John's the…
[Read more]Being here, now.
Well, I don’t know about you but it’s been ruddy mental here these past few months. For one thing, the recession appears to be well and truly over (hurray!) and the voice world is a-booming. In the past few months I’ve voiced a bunch of stuff for all sorts of…
[Read more]“A sound relationship” – new showreel from Emma Clarke & Rich Sweetman
The journey of love can be a tricky one and it’s never been more sensitively expressed than in Emma Clarke and Rich Sweetman’s new showreel. It’s a beautiful thing. Listen as they go through all the stages of a relationship. The budding joy of first love, the tricky first date,…
[Read more]150 years of the Tube
Tomorrow is the 150th anniversary of the first passenger journey on the London Tube. As a ‘Mind the Gap’ voice, I’ve been spending the entire week celebrating. 150 years of tube travel is quite an amazing thing. Those deep, dark tunnels thrumming with people, movement and those fast, packed, metal…
[Read more]The John Lewis Christmas ad and the power of gloves
The 2012 John Lewis Christmas ad is a work of heart-tugging, recession-friendly advertising brilliance. It’s a metaphor for how tough it is, out there, for consumers everywhere. When thinking up a new Christmas TV ad in the depths of the worst recession known to man, it’s gotta be a tough call to…
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