Me as a child, playing with a cassette recorder
Today I received some newly digitised audio of me as a two and a half year old child telling stories. It's incredibly evocative and has taken me right back to my childhood, our house, my family. Have a listen. With huge thanks to Earshot Strategies.
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“What the world needs is a podcast about radio commercials obtaining legal clearance for broadcast.”
Me and a couple of pals have created a stupid comedy podcast about the rigmarole of getting radio advertisements cleared for broadcast. Anyone who works in radio will be familiar with this arduous process (although the Radio Advertising Standards Agency is purely a figment of my fevered imagination). And if…
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A hotpot of Northern reads
I'm a proud, passionate northerner. I was born in the north and I live in the north. Cut me, and I bleed Manchester caviar. But for my work, my natural flat vowels are oft shunned in favour of Estuary English. One customer didn't even realise I was from Manchester!…
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Is this the most annoying voice ever?
A client emailed me. "Emma, can you sound annoying? Not just a bit annoying. We're talking the kind of annoying that people never forget. You'd be the voice everybody loves to hate." I asked my colleague, Rich Sweetman who has…
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Portraying heartbreak
As one of the first commercials I recorded this year I was asked to voice this ad for a divorce lawyer. (January is boom-time for divorces, apparently). My brief was to sound heartbroken, scared and desperate. I was also asked to sound as 'real' as possible. This was challenging as…
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Handy political sound effects
In these febrile political times, me and funnyman colleague Rich Sweetman thought it'd be handy for producers everywhere to have a range of sound effects to use, should the need arise. So herewith, a stock of MP-type noises for your delight. Listen and enjoy/weep. Want to hear some more stupid…
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