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Podcast: Get A Better Broadcast, Podcast and Voice-Over Voice
Episode: 0394 â Donât Fear The Silence
Description: 2022.01.29 â 0394 â Donât Fear The Silence  âPauses strengthen the voice. They also render thoughts more clear-cut by separating them.âRhetorica ad Herennium - the oldest surviving Latin book on rhetoric, dating from the late 80s BC  Broadcasters can fear silence. We want to have a wall of sound on air â music and talking, or music and talking. It causes some people to talk, without âsaying anythingâ, verbal diarrhoea just to keep the volume meter waggling on the studio desk.Silence doesnât mean ânothingâ. It is an important communication too...