In this week's “How do you Say That?!”, David Vickery joins Mark and Sam to talk about TV continuity, what to do when a producer just wants it "flatter", how to produce a miniscule laugh on demand and we enter the dramatic world of Jekyll & Hyde.

Our VO question this week is all about how to break into new voiceover genres.

We’d love you to join in and send us your version of one of the reads in today’s show – just pop it onto an mp3 and send it to podcast@britishvoiceover.co.uk

Script 1

The powders were neatly enough made up, and when I opened one of the wrappers, I found the simple crystalline salt of a pure white colour. The phial, to which I next turned my attention, was filled with yellowish, translucent liquor, which was highly pungent to the sense of smell and contained phosphorus and other volatile ether. This journal, little more than an ordinary book, contains everything. It covers many years, and is filled with equations, formulas and notations of the foremost philosophers in history. Here and there a brief remark is appended to a date, usually no more than a single word: and once very early in the list and followed by several marks of exclamation, "total failure!!!”

Script 2

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About our guest: David Vickery was a young DJ on Capital Radio in 1973, freelanced at Radio 210 Thames Valley and did a post graduate in acting at Welsh College of Music and Drama. He became a Channel 4 continuity announcer in 1984. After many years in continuity he started presenting late nights on TVS - he launched Channel 5, and now can be found as an announcer on BBC2 and BBC4. He's voiced around two and a half thousand documentaries and nowadays he plays croquet, which he says lets him come up for air outside the studio!

David's Website

@TheDavidVickery on Twitter

@davidvickerysilvervox on Instagram

Mark's demos & contact details: https://linktr.ee/britishvoiceovermark

Sam's demos & contact details: https://linktr.ee/samanthaboffin

Mentioned in this episode:

The one with the Teeny Tiny Laughter!