Lovely Voices: Your Grandma, the voice of contentment
The fact that my adult daughter had not read Winnie the Pooh is an indictment of everyone who has known her up until this point. The...
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Ms Claire Duffy
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Lovely voices: James Earl Jones. Boomy, smoky, pause master.
I challenge you not to ge tingles when you listen to this.Your voice is an instrument, and using it to best effect takes practice. James...
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Lovely Voices: David Attenborough, natural wonder.
Attenborough is a magician. He entrances and intrigues us. Fuelled by his own fascination with his subject and his genius for...
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Lovely Voices: Edward Tufte, the Chart Master
Way before the digital era and the info-graphic, Tufte laid down principles of good information design that are still the gold standard....
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Lovely Voices: David Tennant, pitch perfect.
Tennant gets much of his character and ‘actorly’ personality from the way he varies his pitch and inflection. Pitch is just like a note...
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Lovely Voices: the race caller
Purely information-based speeches are tough gigs. Think of a witness testifying in court, or a student announcing the results at the...
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