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Episode: 0107 – The 1941 ‘Radio Announcer’s Test’ To Help With Speaking Skills
Description: 0107 – The 1941 ‘Radio Announcer’s Test’ To Help With Speaking Skills The Radio Announcers Test[1]This was created by Radio Central New York in 1941 to test new announcers’ speaking skills. It covers a variety of vowel and consonant sounds and you can either say it line-by-line, in just one breath without sounding rushed or out of breath, or read line 1, then 1 and 2, then 1,2 and 3 and so on.Potential staff would be graded for clarity, enunciation, diction, tonality and expressiveness. ·        One hen·        Two ducks·        Three squawking geese·        Four Limerick oysters·        Five corpulent porpoises·        Six pairs of Don Alverzo's tweezers·        Seven thousand Macedonian...