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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Elocution Homework For some elocution homework I have a very pleasurable suggestion. BBC Radio 4 A very interesting series on Radio 4 called Britain at Sea written & presented by Admiral Lord West, is being broadcast on Radio 4 - and he does have a wonderful voice! A Great Voice To Learn From Admiral [...]
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 [...]
The death of Margaret Thatcher has brought up a lot of mixed emotions, for me and a lot of other people. As a girl, at a blue stocking girls' school, I was immensely proud and can still remember the day, vividly, when she was voted into power. The first woman prime minister and only a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
English T's and D's Keep saying your English T's and D's - really - just keep on, keeping on..... I was listening to one of the Olympic Bid Team youngsters talking on my beloved Radio 4 and he was recounting the advice the advice his friend and mentor, Olympic gold medalist, had given him. "If [...]