Very Entertaining Homework – I promise! Radio Four is broadcasting a dramatized version of The Barchester Chronicles on Sundays at 3pm and it’s brilliant. The scripts are well written and the acting is excellent. You can download the broadcasts from the Iplayer at your convenience from this link: BBC Radio 4 – The [...]
One of the techniques I teach for Public Speaking & Elocution, creating a bright, open, attractively toned voice, is a singing discipline I learned from my late singing teacher Ian Adam. He was a wonderful man whom believed and proved, as I have done using his techniques, that ANYONE can sing. And indeed using his [...]
Listening to well spoken English is essential for your progress, so I am sending you a link of a very interesting audio programme - all spoken in clear standard English - called Our Own Correspondent - a selection of audio articles submitted from BBC journalists working around the world. This an opportunity for you to [...]
I am becoming a geek... and loving it. I always secretly admired geeks. My ex was an electric organ geek, as well as a cycling geek and I happily listened to him for hours as he described in minute details the workings of a 1960 Hammond Organ and the gradients of another vertical mountain pass. [...]
Clarity is not about 'Class' or Regional Accents. You only have to watch Eastenders to learn about this. If those actors genuinely spoke as if they sold fruit on the North End Road in Fulham let alone London's Eastend - the BBC would not be able to sell that programme all around the world. And [...]