More Great Voices, To Learn From More Great Voices to Learn From is a an extensive list of women and men, whose voices are perfect for your ongoing training of excellent elocution. And, how you can access them, 24hrs a day... The list contains 40 names you can put into the Audible search box (Amazon’s [...]
The Dramatisation of Primo Levi's The Periodic Table Primo Levi, an Italian Jew, was born in 1919. In 1939, he entered university - just in time - to study chemistry, as it was just before Mussolini's racial laws, barred the Jews from entry. He survived the horrors of Facist Italy and even the Auschwitiz death [...]
Celebrating Roald Dahl and Entertaining Excellent Elocution Voice Coaching A hundred years ago, one of our best loved writers was born, Roald Dahl. This week Radio 4 is celebrating the life and works of this highly talented author, with various entertaining and delightful productions. So in this blog I am celebrating Roald Dahl and entertaining excellent elocution [...]
Muhammad Ali was one of my late father's heroes. Cassius, as Muhammad was christened, had started his profession as a lightweight boxer, just like my father had been in the army. When I was a child Daddy would make me laugh by assuming Ali's boxing pose and moving nimbly on his toes around the room, [...]
This week's voice coaching clarity homework, is a truly remarkable audio production of a favourite play. Filled with lots of different voices with lots of different accents that are clear and beautifully annunciated, there are a variety of regional accents, all with excellent diction. It's a brave and wonderful project in four parts, staring the [...]
America's First Lady Michelle Obama's speech at SXSW's Let Girls Learn conference, is a tour de force. Wow. How talented and polished is this lady at public speaking and presenting! She is so inspiring. She talks from the heart looking effortlessly relaxed and elegant, womanly and sexy, with not a trace of I'm dressing like a [...]
As we once again celebrate International Women's Day, I am struck how the voices of women in the West have changed so drastically over the last 60 years. Here in the UK, since the advent of the pill, in 1961, radically changing women's position in society as they gained power over their own reproductive systems [...]
Last week I said I would compile a list of recommendations you could purchase for elocution public speaking accent softening audio learning, from Audible (Amazon's Audio Books). This is a really pleasurable way of improving your elocution or acheive accent softening whilst listening to some great drama.. Here are my two favourite productions so far: first broadcast [...]
Hi, every time I have a new student I introduce them to the value, convenience and power of Audio Books to improve their speech clarity - effectively your own automated voice coach: when you want, at a time of purely your own convenience and allowing you to multitask in your busy working life. Sure, listening [...]
Elocution Learning excellent elocution should be fun. I have just finished listening to The Forsytes ~ on BBC Radio 4. It's a dramatised version of the novels by John Galsworthy, dramatised for radio by Shaun McKenna and it is wonderful and great for improving your elocution! Over the next two years, BBC Radio 4 is [...]