UPDATE: Streetmuseum Londinium is iPhone App of the Week!

August 17, 2011

The recently-released “Streetmuseum Londinium” app, including voiceover by Yours Truly, is now iPhone App of the Week in the UK iTunes Store. For more about the app, click through to read the news story I posted on its release. The app is a free download from iTunes – click here to get it!

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London’s Voiceovers Team Up For East African Famine Relief

August 13, 2011

I spent Tuesday morning at London’s Maple Street Studios, having been asked to donate my voice to the VOEastAfrica campaign. Organised through social-media, the aim is to get one hundred voice actors from all over  the world to voice ten audio and video Public Service Announcements (PSAs) for ten recognised aid-agencies fighting the crisis in the [...]

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That’s the sound of the man working on the Maricopa Chain Gang…

August 4, 2011

Fifteen men, chained together at the ankles, face a month of hard work. Sounds like slavery, but it’s now law. This Saturday night, the Crime & Investigation Network takes a gritty look at Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s prison chain gangs in the American state of Arizona. Though the chain gang concept was largely gone from American jails [...]

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Roman London – brought to life by History, the Museum of London, and Voiceover Artist Mike Cooper

July 25, 2011

London has been a thriving city for over 2,000 years, but if you’ve ever wondered what it looked like on the streets of the capital during Roman times then you may be interested in a new iPhone app that gives you the opportunity to see London as it might have been centuries ago. HISTORY™ and [...]

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Keep an Open Mind, and we’ll fly you to the moon…

July 20, 2011

Here’s a short animation I voiced recently for Cisco Systems. The film is designed to encourage new subscribers to a bi-weekly blog called “Open Minds” that’s written by Cisco’s Inclusion and Diversity Director. I love the look and feel of this piece. For anyone a) British, and b) old enough to remember, it’s vaguely reminiscent [...]

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“The Best-Before Day”

June 23, 2011

I recently completed a voiceover for the UK-based charity, “FareShare“. The video slideshow, conceived by London producer Rino Pucci, is online now and you can see it below. FareShare has been in operation since 2004 and is at the centre of two of the most urgent issues that face the UK: food poverty and food [...]

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Keep watching the skies (but listen out for a change of voice…)

June 17, 2011

I recently voiced half a television series for History. How does this happen, you may ask? Well, in this case, the first half had already been voiced by an actor, who then landed a plum job in a West End play and wasn’t able to narrate the remaining episodes. So, I got to play the [...]

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BP Solar video now online

June 15, 2011

Here’s a short promotional video I voiced recently for BP Solar. The voiceover track was recorded in my home studio by ISDN to my agents, The Voiceover Gallery, in Manchester, with the client listening in by phone. You can also see this video, and others, on my YouTube channel.

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