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Author Topic: Presenters' voices  (Read 1196 times)
Ian Pace
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« Reply #15 on: 01:04:27, 04-04-2007 »

There is a difference between criticising a presenter's voice (especially because of accent, etc.) and criticising an affected manner, such as that which aspires to the status of the Blue Peter presenter.

Which is the case for Jilly Goolden, I wonder? Does she speak like that the rest of the time?
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« Reply #16 on: 23:53:24, 04-04-2007 »

Who does Catherine Bott remind me of? Someone, very strongly, and it was a rather negative association... (...a politician?)

Ann Widdecombe?

I wouldn't care to have an argument with either of them.
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« Reply #17 on: 00:07:35, 05-04-2007 »

Ann Widdicombe - could be... [shudder]

Heard Sarah Walker this morning for the first time in Classical Collection mode and found it all perfectly acceptable until the script insisted that she say "tell us what you think - send us an email" etc etc. It sounded as if it stuck in her throat almost as much as it made my stomach turn.
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« Reply #18 on: 00:37:22, 05-04-2007 »

Ann Widdicombe - could be... [shudder]

Heard Sarah Walker this morning for the first time in Classical Collection mode and found it all perfectly acceptable until the script insisted that she say "tell us what you think - send us an email" etc etc. It sounded as if it stuck in her throat almost as much as it made my stomach turn.

Ah, it's almost tempting to think you may be onto something there, but while I think it quite posible that a presenter might not be fully committed to the Wright line on 'interactivity'. I think it somewhat more likely in this case that it was just one of those little 'catches' that characterize Sarah Walker's natural speaking voice, (and not only on the radio). There again, I know from other presenters that email communications are much appreciated by the programme teams. Certainly much more so than message board posts. As Rob Cowan has implied, however, what they really look forward to are intelligent, interesting relevant emails, not just the "that was nice" variety.
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« Reply #19 on: 20:30:13, 06-04-2007 »

This interactivity: is the problem really the inane way in which its been deployed in re-launch rather than synchronised (eg through democratised message board as it was). It invites 'that was nice' and it feels as though it does. To his credit , Rob seems to be making  this work, though I agree it does not sit easily. You could base
a theme on a pile of e-mails (rather as we do here extempore) more readily than shoehorning them in. And the
Breakfast gig sits uneasily between playlist sequence radio and structured 'feature'. Maybe it will evolve into
something comfortably inbetween. The doc's dilemma is maybe whether to emulate this or find a way to do her
own thing with the e-mails.
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