Voices (real, not in my head)

[Harry Bloomfield]

Big Clive - YouTube!

Watching his items on Youtube, I often wondered what he looked like, quite a surprise when I did eventually see him in a vid.

I do like a good clear, easy to follow diction, even if there is a little accent to it. Sometimes the diction is so poor, it takes such a lot of your attention, it can seriously detract from a plot of a film or a program. I was (trying to) watch something the other night, two American women conversing, and I just could not understand a word they saying, they might have been speaking Chinese.

 

[ReganAndCarter]

My lad had his picture taken with him, in the local paper, when he was the green cross code man, not the voice! The guy who played the acting role!

Yes, Dave Prowse. He had a broad Bristolian accent, so Darth's voice was someone else's. "May the force be with 'e!" Doesn't sound quite right.

 

[johnny2007]

Darren o'Brien

 

[Odds]

Shelby Foote; the definitive voice of the American Civil War history.

He had a way of speaking that evoked a bygone era of the refined Southern gentleman, pipe in hand, sipping occasionally from a glass of fine bourbon. They don't make 'em like him, no more.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

Going off at a tangent, Paddy McGuinness has the most irritating accent I've ever heard. Speaking as a northerner, surely nobody can possibly be that northern, he sounds like a posh twit trying to sound like one of them working class types.

And Gino D'Acampo. I completely believe Keith Lemon's story that he's actually from Sheffield and the whole thing's fake.

 

[Deleted member 18243]

Going off at a tangent, Paddy McGuinness has the most irritating accent I've ever heard. Speaking as a northerner, surely nobody can possibly be that northern, he sounds like a posh twit trying to sound like one of them working class types.

Agree; he is a "Professional Boltonian", overdoing the accent. Peter Kay is another one.