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Year THREE of short daily episodes to improve the quality of your speaking voice.Through these around-5-minute episodes, you can build your confidence and competence with advice on breathing and reading, inflection and projection, the roles played by better scripting and better sitting, mic techniques and voice care tips... with exercises and anecdotes from a career spent in TV and radio studios. If you're wondering about how to start a podcast, or have had one for a while - download every episode!And as themes develop over the weeks (that is, they are not random topics day-by-day), this is...

0301 – More Intonation Confusion

4 mins; October 27, 2021

0300 – 8 – Beware of Potential Intonation Confusion

7 mins; October 26, 2021

0300 – 8 – Beware of Potential Intonation Confusion

7 mins; October 26, 2021

0299 – 7 – Take Notice Of What Is Implied

5 mins; October 25, 2021

0298 – Purposeful Mis-Intonation

4 mins; October 24, 2021

0297 – 6 – Shades of Colour

6 mins; October 23, 2021

0296 – Guiding The Listener

3 mins; October 22, 2021

0295 – Contrasts Within Contrasts

9 mins; October 21, 2021

0294 – 5 – Look For The Balance

6 mins; October 20, 2021

0293 – 4 – How Long Before An Old Idea Is New Again

7 mins; October 19, 2021

0292 – 3 – Synonyms: simple and advanced

5 mins; October 18, 2021

0291 – ‘Reading In’

4 mins; October 17, 2021

0290 – Grades Of Lifting And Subduing

3 mins; October 16, 2021

0289 – Subduing Old Information: Examples

4 mins; October 15, 2021

0288 – When Information Is Implied

4 mins; October 14, 2021

0287 – The Synonym Intonation Substitution.

5 mins; October 13, 2021

0286 – What To Do About Synonyms

7 mins; October 12, 2021

0285 – 2 - Un-colour Old Information

6 mins; October 11, 2021

0284 – What Are Meaningful Words?

1 min; October 10, 2021

0283 – 1 - Colour Important New Information

6 mins; October 09, 2021

0282 – Intentional Intonation

1 min; October 08, 2021

0281 – Emma’s Story

4 mins; October 07, 2021

0280 – - How to Sound Like You Know What You’re Talking About.

3 mins; October 06, 2021

0279 – The Bus Driver Analogy

1 min; October 05, 2021

0278 – Intonation Is Easier If…

55 secs; October 04, 2021

0277 – Nervous Newbies

6 mins; October 03, 2021

0276 – The ‘Grand Old Duke Of York’ Readers

1 min; October 02, 2021

0275 – ‘Intonation Stew’ Readers

2 mins; October 01, 2021

0274 – Action Intonators

2 mins; September 30, 2021

0273 – Plonking

2 mins; September 29, 2021

0272 – Intonation Constipation

3 mins; September 28, 2021

0271 – The Stale Story Read

2 mins; September 27, 2021

0270 – The News Channel Read

3 mins; September 26, 2021

0269 – Sing-Song Reads

3 mins; September 25, 2021

0268 – When Wrong Words Are Intoned

1 min; September 24, 2021

0267 – When Intonation Goes Wrong

5 mins; September 23, 2021

0266 – Un-Colouring Words

3 mins; September 22, 2021

0265 – The Intonation Colour Chart

9 mins; September 21, 2021

0264 – Graduations of Intonations

2 mins; September 20, 2021

0263 – The Intonation Code

1 min; September 19, 2021

0262 – An Intonation Exercise

4 mins; September 18, 2021

0261 – The Red Hat Mystery

7 mins; September 17, 2021

0260 – “Hello…”

3 mins; September 16, 2021

0259 – Intonation Illustrations

3 mins; September 15, 2021

0258 – The Goldilocks Rules Of Intonations

1 min; September 14, 2021

0257 – My Guide To Reading Out Loud, Naturally

2 mins; September 13, 2021

0256 - Weight And Pitch in Intonation

2 mins; September 12, 2021

0255 – Intonation Definitions

5 mins; September 11, 2021

0254 – Inflection Definitions

5 mins; September 10, 2021

0253 – An Introduction To Intonation

1 min; September 09, 2021

0252 – Non-Word Sounds

4 mins; September 08, 2021

0251 - How To Sound Happy And Friendly… And Sad

4 mins; September 07, 2021

0250 - Tone and Your Mood

2 mins; September 06, 2021

0249 - A Change of Mood

2 mins; September 05, 2021

0248 - Brand Voices

1 min; September 04, 2021

0247 - Script Direction

2 mins; September 03, 2021

0246 - The Gravity > Levity Tonal Scale

2 mins; September 02, 2021

0245 – Onomatopoeia

2 mins; September 01, 2021

0244 – I Love You

4 mins; August 31, 2021

0243 - The Message Gives The Voice

3 mins; August 30, 2021

0242 – When Tonal Emotions Clash

3 mins; August 29, 2021

0241 - Twenty-Two Tonal Emotions

4 mins; August 28, 2021

0240 - Tone In Voice Acting

1 min; August 27, 2021

0239 - More on Changing ‘Tonal Tracks’

2 mins; August 26, 2021

0238 -The Tonal Construct for a Presenter

4 mins; August 25, 2021

0237 – Tonal Changes From Heavy to Light

5 mins; August 24, 2021

0236 – Rehearse Your Tone With These Real Scripts

2 mins; August 23, 2021

0235 - Marking up a Script for Tonal Changes

4 mins; August 22, 2021

0234 - Working Out Appropriate Emotional Tone

1 min; August 21, 2021

0233 - Your Start-of-Bulletin Tone

1 min; August 20, 2021

0232 - Emotional Tone in the News as a Story Develops Over Time

4 mins; August 19, 2021

0231 - Emotional Tone Within a Story

2 mins; August 18, 2021

0230 - Tonal changes within a bulletin

1 min; August 17, 2021

0229 - Changing ‘tonal tracks’

3 mins; August 16, 2021

0228 - Appropriate emotional tone in the news

6 mins; August 15, 2021

0227 - Too little emotional tone in the news

1 min; August 14, 2021

0226 - Tone In the News

3 mins; August 13, 2021

0225 - Auditory Disconnections

2 mins; August 12, 2021

0224 – Tone And Emotion

5 mins; August 11, 2021

0223 - Pitch and Politicians

4 mins; August 10, 2021

0222 – Pitch And Perception

4 mins; August 09, 2021

0221 – Pitch Variety

2 mins; August 08, 2021

0220 – What A Carry On! Kenneth Williams On How His Comic Voice Caused Serious Injury

2 mins; August 07, 2021

0219 – What Accents Are The Most Sexy?

6 mins; August 06, 2021

0218 – Research: Men With Deeper Voices Are More Attractive – But Cheat More

1 min; August 05, 2021

0217 – How Imperfect Pitch Got Jamal Into A Jam

2 mins; August 04, 2021

0216 – Margaret Thatcher’s Pitch Profile

1 min; August 03, 2021

0215 – Lowering Your Pitch

3 mins; August 02, 2021

0214 - Politicians’ Different Pitches For Different People And Different Policies

1 min; August 01, 2021

0213 - The ‘Higher And Louder’ Pitfall

3 mins; July 31, 2021

0212 - Your Pitch Range

4 mins; July 30, 2021

0211 - Your Actual Natural Voice Pitch

5 mins; July 29, 2021

0210 – Michael Caine on How Your Voice Pitch Can Be Affected By Nerves

3 mins; July 28, 2021

0209 – Stressful Sally’s Story

2 mins; July 27, 2021

0208 – Your Resting Pitch

4 mins; July 26, 2021

0207 – Why You Sound Different To You

3 mins; July 25, 2021

0206 - So what is ‘pitch’?

2 mins; July 24, 2021

0205 – An Introduction to Pitch

3 mins; July 23, 2021

0204 – Don’t Be Too Much

1 min; July 22, 2021

0203 – Reading Out Loud

2 mins; July 21, 2021

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