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Critiquing the King’s voiceover technique on live radio. Eeeek.
On the eve of the Coronation of King Charles III, the BBC asked me to critique His Majesty’s specially...
Showreels
New TV Narration showreel!
I have a new TV Narration voiceover showreel. It’s chock-full of snippets of work I’ve done on reality TV, true...
Broadcast/Live
*DING* I have ‘big project’ news…
A lot of the voiceover work I record goes under the radar. You might hear me in a radio or...
Substack
What happens when heavy machinery is being used right outside your sound studio?
And your electricity goes off at the same time. How would you cope? Sometimes you’ve just gotta surrender to events....
Spectralism
The sound of someone breathing reminds you you’re alive.
As a voiceover (and an asthmatic), I think a lot about breath. Most of the time when I’m recording I’m...
Composition
How to teach a computer to sound human
(You can listen to a podcast about this audio here). It’s not often I hear audio that blows my mind....
Newsletter
Who Do You Think I Am? My new newsletter/podcast combo
I do a bunch of different types work: voicing, recording, composing music, creating sounds. All this stuff is connecting to...
BBC
Want to hear some daft stuff I recorded for BBC Newscast? Click here!
I bloody love the BBC’s Newscast. For those who aren’t familiar with it, it’s a daily BBC news podcast and...
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