Loving the Series on BBC1 – beautifully filmed and some excellent acting. Just had my own little fling with the Russian language doing a voiceover for the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade. Some very challenging pronunciations. Did I learn anything? Well, Da and niet!

Same age, same illness, within a few days of Bowie, the great actor Alan Rickman leaves the stage. A superb character actor, always a great performance from Truly madly deeply to Love Actually, Die Hard and Harry Potter. Another sad loss for the Arts world.

Happy new year to everyone! New Big Mouth Voiceover Course dates now available – please check out on our site at bigmouthvox.com.

watching Sound of Music live on ITV and I’m loving it. Kara Tointon absolutely stunning, and can’t believe that they’re all singing live. Superb production.  

…or do you want to throw something at the tv whenever James Corden appears on your screen?!

Quick dash to London to do rather a challenging voiceover – the trick will be to make it sound like I know what I’m talking about!!

So this week shortlisted for about 4 voiceovers, quite a few auditions and took a one day voiceover course too. A return visit – always nice to know that they enjoyed it the first time!

Busy few days. I was asked to do a voiceover for an experimental media co. in Canada, a piece from T S Elliot’s Burnt Norton,  from his 4 Quartets work. Very challenging! Live link up with Canada at D Studios in Leamington which went well. Just finished editing and it’s done. Made a change from the normal…

It’s been a good week. One voiceover for America, one for QVC, and now a series of ads for Evita in New Zealand. Plus I’m shortlisted for 3 more voiceovers. It’s a funny old game.

I’m often asked what a good Voiceover Showcase should include – how many demos, what styles etc. Whilst there’s not a hard and fast rule there are some do’s and don’t’s. Don’t include a style that doesn’t suit your voice. If your voice doesn’t lend itself to hard selling for example, there would be little…