0236 – Rehearse Your Tone With These Real Scripts

0236 – Rehearse your tone with these real scripts

Straightforward tone – Be careful. This is a political story, and even though it may look on the face of it as ‘good news’, it may be that the ‘devil is in the detail’ that the money has already been announced or there are caveats to the scheme.

The government has announced a 172-million pound funding package to train 8-thousand more nurses on degree apprenticeships in England over the next 4 years. At the moment, the NHS and social care employers train around one thousand apprentice nurses every year. The Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, said the "earn and learn" route would make a career in nursing more accessible.

Concerning tone – this is a ‘universal emotion’ that job cuts are a ‘bad thing’, so should be read with a tone of concern.

A survey suggests a rise in the number of organisations in the UK which expect to make job cuts this summer. The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and the recruitment firm Adecco asked more than two thousand employers about their intentions, with a third saying they expected to reduce their workforce before the end of September, up from a fifth three months earlier.

Lighter, more positive tone – this is good news, so can be read with a lighter tone and perhaps slightly faster as one usually does with a positive voice.

More lockdown measures are being relaxed in Wales from today, as gyms, pools and leisure centres reopen their doors. Wales will become the first part of the UK to allow children to return to indoor soft play areas.

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 a free, course to help you GET A BETTER BROADCAST, PODCAST AND VIDEO VOICE.

Look out for more details of the book during 2021.

Contacts: https://linktr.ee/Peter_Stewart

Peter has been around voice and audio all his working life and has trained hundreds of broadcasters in all styles of radio from pop music stations such as Capital FM and BBC Radio 1 to Heart FM, the classical music station BBC Radio 3 and regional BBC stations. He’s trained news presenters on regional TV, the BBC News Channel and on flagship programmes such as the BBC’s Panorama. Other trainees have been music presenters, breakfast show hosts, travel news presenters and voice-over artists.

He has written a number of books on audio and video presentation and production (“Essential Radio Journalism”, “JournoLists”, two editions of “Essential Radio Skills” and three editions of “Broadcast Journalism”) and has written on voice and presentation skills in the BBC’s in-house newspaper “Ariel”.

Peter has presented hundreds of radio shows (you may have heard him on BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 4, Virgin Radio or Kiss, as well as BBC regional radio) with formats as diverse as music-presentation, interview shows, ‘special’ programmes for elections and budgets, live outside broadcasts and commentaries and even the occasional sports, gardening and dedication programmes. He has read several thousand news bulletins, and hosted nearly 2,000 podcast episodes, and is a vocal image consultant advising in all aspects of voice and speech training for presenters on radio and TV, podcasts and YouTube, voiceovers and videocalls.

The podcast title refers to those who may wish to change their speaking voice in some way. It is not a suggestion that anyone should, or be pressured into needing to. We love accents and dialects, and are well aware that how we speak changes over time. The key is: is your voice successfully communicating your message, so it is being understood (and potentially being acted upon) by your target audience?

This podcast is London-based and examples are spoken in the RP (Received Pronunciation) / standard-English / BBC English pronunciation, although invariably applicable to other languages, accents and dialects.

Music credits:

"Bleeping Demo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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