My changing voice

MSE_Martin · 2005-03-11 18:37:22

Having just discovered some old files, I thought it would be amusing to compile a wee note on 'how m'voice's changed'. As a broadcaster you use different tones for different things. Once I had a BBC reporters voice, it took a long time to get it. The Start When I went to do my broadcasting postgraduate, quite deliberately…

11 March 2005 at 6:37PM in Martin's Blogs & Appearances & MoneySavingExpert in the News

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18 April 2005 at 11:58AM

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18 April 2005 at 11:58AM

Reminds me of the BBC's Clive Myrie, who I was at university with (he was a friend of my now wife's best friend and so we saw a fair bit of him) - a really top bloke. Anyway, at the time we knew him he had the broadest Manchester/Lancs accent you could possibly imagine (more Fred Dibnah than Happy Mondays), so we were astonished when we first saw him on the news with a perfect BBC home counties accent.

I must say though that however he speaks, it doesn't half make a difference to the way you perceive the news watching someone you know being shot at by the Iraqui army.

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