In this episode of “How Do You Say That?!” sponsored by britishvoiceover.co.uk, writer and voice actor Debs Wardle joins Sam and Mark to talk about turning over your own characters to other voice actors, how to create exertion noises, and embodying the undead!

Our VO question this week is all about what writers create first - the characters or the universe they live in.

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Script 1

(Sounds of a horse and cart being loaded)

‘Hup, the headmaster's chair, ‘hup the bench of the seven aldermen, and here, the bench for the rich gentlemen of the guilds… And isn’t that the magistrate's hat?

(mimicking/sarcastic)

Luxury cloth. Exclusive and hard-wearing!

(laughs)

Come on, Frederic, let’s go. We can come back later for the steward’s furniture.

Script 2

Actually, I am from a noble family, thank you very much. My family held this land for generations, but after the conquest it was confiscated, handed over to those vile Normans, and they knocked down our family home and built this castle in its place.

The conquest happened a little before my time, of course, but I’m told my poor grandfather never recovered. We were supposedly lucky because we were allowed to carry on living here – lucky to be allowed to carry on living full stop, actually.

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About our guest:

Debs Wardle is an Oxford based voice artist specialising in character work and narration along with commercial and e-learning. She's recently voiced for The Wandering Kitchen, Oxford Digital Media, and Oxford University Press.

Debs particularly enjoys working on audio dramas and has lent her voice to several podcasts including The Cryo Pod Tapes, The Space Buccaneers, Clash of the Reasonably Epic People, and her own podcast Vamps; the fourth and final series of which was released at the end of 2023.

Debs has a theatrical background with a Btec in Performing Arts and a BA in Drama. As well as being a voice artist, She's a writer, with recent credits including Death’s Door forEvcol Entertainment and Window of Opportunity for Clockwork Digital Media.

Debs's Website

Debs on YouTube

@debs.writervo on Instagram

Debs's Facebook page

Resources: Click here for the Wildcard Generator and don't forget to think of an action your character can be doing!

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