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 [...]
Elocution & Accent Reduction with BBC Radio 4 Studying elocution & accent reduction with BBC Radio 4 is a wonderful tool to help you, because no one can get a job on Radio 4 unless they speak clearly so this really will enhance your training with me. I teach you the engineering - what 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 [...]
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 [...]