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, [...]
Speech Clarity and Elocution Voice Coaching For speech clarity and elocution voice coaching, this, the last episode of the present series of the Forsytes has certainly been up to the usual high standard.. This production is perfect for audio brain washing and you can download this series from the beginning if you haven't had a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]