Get A Better Broadcast, Podcast and Voice-Over Voice
1,002 episodes - English - Latest episode: 9 months ago - ★★★★ - 4 ratingsYear THREE of short daily episodes to improve the quality of your speaking voice.
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 VOICE OVER VOICE.
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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, 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.
He has written a number of books on audio and video presentation and production (see contacts clink above) and 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 various formats. He has read tens of thousands of news bulletins and hosted 3,000+ podcast episodes.
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.
The 'Peter Stewart' show is perhaps of great interest to those in broadcast voice overs, the broadcast voice, how to start a voice podcast, broadcasting voice training, your speaking voice, breathing technique, and conversational speaking. You may also find it useful if you are searching for information on voice coaching, voice training, voice overs, podcasting, broadcasting, presenting, being a voice over actor and newsreading, audio branding, public speaking, the recorded voice, vocal tips, performance, vocal health education, vocal technique and voice over training.
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Episodes
0201 - Be Prepared But Flexible
July 19, 2021 23:01 - 2 minutes - 1.5 MB0201 - Be Prepared But Flexible Be prepared but flexible Flexible? Yes, many times the director and the clients at a voice-over production will disagree amongst themselves on how a script should be read, what words are the most important, or the tone of the overall read. As the voice actor your job is to bring your experience but to read in the way that the client asks you to. And if you have rehearsed so much that you have become too ‘set in your speak’, it may be tricky to break out f...
0200 - Taking Apart A Voice Over Script Pt 3
July 18, 2021 23:01 - 3 minutes - 2.64 MB0200 - Taking Apart A Voice Over Script Pt 3 · Big Name Kitchen Electricals o Another way to signify importance of a words is to give initial capitalisations. That’s what’s happened here, but it’s unclear why. · AT STEWART’S!!! o Another punctuation combination: capitals and not one but three exclamation marks. Certainly, as the name of the store, the information is important, but it’s unclear how excited the reader needs to be when saying this name. · That’s ...
0199 - Taking Apart A Voice Over Script Pt 2
July 17, 2021 23:01 - 3 minutes - 2.05 MB0199 - Taking Apart A Voice Over Script Pt 2 That script is not helpful! · Save o This is bold and italicised, but it’s unclear why. Certainly there needs to be an emphasis on this key word, but how that emphasis differs from the not-bolded, but capitalised and underlined word that follows is unclear. · BIG o Again, an emphasis on another key word at the start of the script is good. But how much emphasis is to be given is unclear in this randomised punctuation. · ...
0198 – Taking Apart A Voice Over Script Pt 1
July 16, 2021 23:01 - 3 minutes - 2.33 MB0198 – Taking Apart A Voice Over Script Pt 1 The marks ‘built in’ to the script by the writer should give you an idea of the intention behind the words, how they ‘heard the words’ in their head as it was being written. But sometimes the various bolds, underlinings, italicisations and CAPITALISATIONS and exclamation marks can be more confusing and contradictory rather than give reassuring direction!!!! (Direction: energised and excited.) Save BIG up to HALF PRICE off ALL Big Name Kit...
0197 – How To Be A Better Reader
July 15, 2021 23:01 - 2 minutes - 1.53 MB0197 – How To Be A Better Reader How to be a better reader To be a better reader… become a better reader! · Read more content – magazines, games cartridges, cereal packets… · Read out loud · Read umpteen different styles, even ones that you have no immediate interest in · Read without initial proof-reading first. · Read for a long time to build up your ‘vocal stamina’ – I’m not saying read without a break or without drinking water, but a short burst...
0196 – She Fell From Her House
July 14, 2021 23:01 - 1 minute - 1.25 MB0196 – She Fell From Her House When You Make A Mistake On Air This may simply be a result of poor sight reading, not having enough time to pre-read a script, not marking it up correctly, reading too fast, being distracted, being stressed, not understanding a story well enough to be able to presume where the grammar was taking the reader … or because of a scriptwriter who has not checked their work before submitting it – someone who has neither a spell-check or sense of professionalism or r...
0195 – Over-Rehearsing
July 13, 2021 23:01 - 3 minutes - 2.23 MB0195 – Over-Rehearsing Over-rehearsing However, (!) recording a script over and over until it’s perfect (whatever that is!) doesn’t necessarily help. It’s possible that you read it so much that you forget what the overall message is, or you see too many conflicting messages, causing you to get locked in a certain rhythm or tone pattern. With a voiceover you may have recorded so many versions that you don’t know which is the best ‘take’. You’re suffering from ‘ear fatigue’, so it’s probably...
0194 - Rehearsing Your Script
July 12, 2021 23:01 - 5 minutes - 3.69 MB0194 - Rehearsing Your Script Rehearsals If you have every watched “Strictly Come Dancing” or “Dancing with the Stars” on the tv, I would imagine that you have never presumed that neither the pros not the amateurs simply rock up to the studio, take to the floor and perform faultlessly. In a similar way to the dancers having to get their legs and arms and torsos (and everything!) to learn the routine (‘muscle memory’), you have to rehearse your articulators, such as your lips and tongue ...
0193 – Marking Up For… An Awkward Word
July 11, 2021 23:01 - 2 minutes - 1.72 MB0193 – Marking Up For… An Awkward Word Marking up for… an awkward word To flag troublesome terms (ones that might cause pronunciation problems, we looked at these before), consider drawing a box or circle around it, with a how-to-say-it guide just above. It’s back! It’s big! It’ll save you money! {Stewart’s Big Holiday Weekend Sale!} Big money deals from big household names! Krupps! Philips! Zanussi! And remember! Every sixth customer, gets an additional 16% off! Certainly, after...
0192 – Marking Up For… A Faster Read
July 10, 2021 23:01 - 1 minute - 1.3 MB0192 – Marking Up For… A Faster Read Marking up for… a faster read (more on the ‘speed of a read’ later) Some texts are presented quickly to add excitement and others more slowly to give perhaps a more luxurious feel. But sometimes scripts aren’t read at a constant speed at all, but have different flow-rates within them. This adds interest to the message and also allows the reader to ‘skip over’ some of the less interesting information and spend a bit more time on what’s important. To ind...
0191 – Marking Up For… Tone
July 09, 2021 23:01 - 3 minutes - 2.3 MB0191 – Marking Up For… Tone Marking up for… tone (more on tone later) It is usually straightforward to record a commercial voice over in the correct tone, because you will have had a chance to read it in advance, rehearse aloud, and focus on that single say, 30 seconds, before the recording starts. Trickier is newsreading when you have story-after-story, all of varying content, and even though you will have read each one ahead of time, you need to hit the first few words of each news stor...
0190 – Marking Up For… Questions
July 08, 2021 23:01 - 2 minutes - 1.7 MB0190 – Marking Up For… Questions Marking up for… questions Do you know how question marks are used? Of course, you do! But I wrote that sentence to illustrate how, when you read it aloud or in your mind, your tone of voice rose when you spotted that ‘?’ at the end. In English intonation, sentences usually rise in the middle, and end on a downward note. Sometimes called ‘uppers and downers’, they are signposts to the listener, showing the way the sentence and the thought is progressing....
0189 – Marking Up For… Inflection
July 07, 2021 23:01 - 6 minutes - 3.82 MB0189 – Marking Up For… Inflection Marking up for … inflection (more on the inflection, later) Where emphasis is the basic ‘thumping’ of a word, inflection is the gentler (and often more effective) tonal-lift. This is sometimes within a word. The former may be marked with an underlining, the latter perhaps with an arrow above, indicating the direction of the inflection. {Stewart’s Big Holiday Weekend Sale!} It’s so big – we need thre...
0188 – Marking Up For… Emphasis
July 06, 2021 23:01 - 4 minutes - 3.29 MB188 – Marking Up For… Emphasis Marking up for … emphasis (more on the emphasis later) Usually, such terms are either written in CAPITALS, or underlined. A double underlining, or a CAPITALISATION that is also underlined, will usually mean something needs to be stressed (I dislike that word too – see later for why!) even more. The product name – mark this in some way. The ‘rules of intonation’ state that this is one of the most important words in the script – people have got to know the...
0187 – Phrase Markings: A Practical
July 05, 2021 23:01 - 6 minutes - 4.57 MB2021.07.06-0187 – Phrase Markings: A Practical So you could spit a sentence into phrases, or cluster phrases with an elongated circle or bunch the words together by-hyphenating-them. Marking up your script in this way shows you at a glance that everything within the oblong has to be said as a complete thought. It’s less often used than some other mark-ups, and difficult to show in print but you can perhaps see how it may be useful in a situation such as these. It’s back! It’s big! It’...
0186 – Marking Up For…Phrases
July 04, 2021 23:01 - 3 minutes - 2.15 MB2021.07.05-0186 – Marking Up For…Phrases Marking up for … a phrase Your script will have punctuation for sure, but of course, that’s an ‘artificial articulatory construct’ – in other words, we don’t speak using punctuation. We adlib stories, conversationally sharing information as inspiration strikes us. And as very often a sentence carries more than a single message you need to be aware of where each one starts and ends as well as what the key points are within each. For example look ba...
0185 – Dashes and Ellipses in… Scripts
July 03, 2021 23:01 - 6 minutes - 4.6 MB2021.07.04-0185 – Dashes and Ellipses in… Scripts But in scripts for news or commercials, they (or dashes --) are likely to be used as a more eye-catching alternative to a comma. They help break up a sentence more obviously so the reader can see a series of phrases, and where a slight pause may need to be taken, either for a breath or for effect. Take the sentence: The leader of the council has resigned, after just three days. You probably read the four words after the comma almost runnin...
0184 – The Full Stop/Period and Comma
July 02, 2021 23:01 - 2 minutes - 1.72 MB2021.07.03-0184 – The Full Stop/Period and Comma The full stop / period This indicates: · Where a breath may be taken · A half-beat’s pause in the read-back · A change of idea (and likely then, a change of tone) · Or all of the above. You may circle a full-stop or indicate it with a ‘double slash-mark’ // in the script. So you may have a ‘/’ (a ‘virgule’) where you need to pause or take a quick breath, and a ‘//’ where a larger one needs to be taken. The ...
0183 – Now *You* Mark-Up For Breaths
July 01, 2021 23:01 - 7 minutes - 4.65 MB2021.07.02-0183 – Now *You* Mark-Up For Breaths Transatlantic flights from the UK to the United States could take longer because of climate change. Researchers at the University of Reading say that global warming is likely to speed up the jet stream slowing down planes heading for America. Transatlantic flights from the UK to the United States could take longer because of climate change. // Researchers at the University of Reading say that global warming is likely to speed up the jet stre...
0182 – A ‘Marking Up’ Practical
June 30, 2021 23:01 - 9 minutes - 6.16 MB2021.07.01-0182 – A ‘Marking Up’ Practical Here’s our raw script. New data has revealed car production in the UK fell to its lowest September level for a quarter of a century. The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders said just under 115-thousand cars rolled off production lines last month. The industry says uncertainty caused by the pandemic and a potential no-deal Brexit is undermining confidence. Mike Hawes, the society's chief executive, says the overall outlook for the year is bl...
0181 – Marking Up For… Phrases and Breaths
June 29, 2021 23:01 - 2 minutes - 1.95 MB2021.06.30-0181 – Marking Up For… Phrases and Breaths Marking up for … phrases and breaths In copy written by someone else, full stops (or ‘periods’), commas and other punctuation (such as dashes and ellipses…) will, obviously, already have been included. They show the author’s intended or suggested way of reading, but don’t necessarily follow it to the letter (!). After all, the script is unlikely to have been written with you specifically in mind, so there is usually some leeway for you...
0180 – ‘Marking Up A Script’ Tips
June 28, 2021 23:01 - 3 minutes - 2.23 MB2021.06.29-0180 – ‘Marking Up A Script’ Tips Making annotations on your page will help you communicate your message. Normal punctuation will only get you so far, commas giving a basic idea of phrases within a sentence, and full stops showing you the end of a complete thought. To help you interpret copy to be read aloud, particularly for broadcast and particularly to make it sound ‘conversational’[1] then you need to get out your pen and mark up some additional punctuation. Marking up ...
0179 – If *You* Don’t Understand It…
June 27, 2021 23:01 - 3 minutes - 2.58 MB2021.06.28-0179 – If *You* Don’t Understand It… It may be at this stage, or certainly after you have read the item a couple more times that those questions are still unanswered. It is rare to go on air and reading something that you do not understand yourself. You are the conduit of the content from say, a reporter or a copywriter to a listener. You have to understand the story or the message to be able to inject it with a tone of natural relevance. If questions are raised in your mind, the...
0178 – Basic Script Analysis
June 26, 2021 23:01 - 4 minutes - 2.82 MB2021.06.27-0178 – Basic Script Analysis You may think it’s easy to ‘read out loud’ from a script. But converting copy to authentic audio is a skill. After all it may not be written the way that you yourself would have written it, perhaps with different phrases, sentence length or rhythm. This is where we start to explore such issues. Now read it: · What is it about, its main theme or reason for being written? Does it make sense to you? You may naturally have questions rise in your...
0177 – Marking Up A Script
June 25, 2021 23:01 - 3 minutes - 2.06 MB2021.06.26-0177 – Marking Up A Script This is where we start to turn a bland page of text into something more resembling a musical score, giving us directions of how to say each word and phrase, in a polished and conversational style. If the script has been written by someone else, a one-second glance will tell you: · Whether it’s ‘easy on the eye’, broken up into sentences and paragraphs or whether it is one large speech block. When reading short news scripts with a bit of pace an...
0176 - Writing A Script To Be Translated
June 24, 2021 23:01 - 3 minutes - 2.12 MB2021.06.25-0176 - Writing A Script To Be Translated Writing a script that’s to be translated Foreign languages may be, literally, all Greek to you, in which case don’t rely on auto-translators. They’re increasingly accurate but they miss the nuance of a language, and you could end up being an ‘idiom idiot’. Instead hire a professional translator who’s not only studied that second language but also has ‘lived it’ and knows how it’s spoken in real life in that country – a native speaker per...
0175 – Your Written Direction
June 23, 2021 23:01 - 2 minutes - 1.98 MB2021.06.24-0175 – Your Written Direction The written direction The script should match the content, and the audience, and the reader and their tone. Let’s go through that!: · The script should match the content – it would sound odd to have a script about a modern music festival with formal, business-like language – unless that was part of a deliberate creative · … because the target audience is likely to be young people who will better connect with the script if it’s writt...
0174 – Proof Reading
June 22, 2021 23:01 - 2 minutes - 1.93 MB2021.06.23-0174 – Proof Reading Proof reading Done your script? Now proof read – read it out to test it out. Yes, if you or someone is going to read it out loud then that’s the process you have got to go through first – to hear it in your ears and not just your head. Check for the things we’ve been talking about: grammar, spelling and flow (so, the pace and the rhythm of the piece). Layout One of the skills you will need to develop is knowing how to work with scripts that are unhelpfu...
0173 – Unintended Scripted Jokes
June 21, 2021 23:01 - 4 minutes - 2.78 MB2021.06.22-0173 – Unintended Scripted Jokes Unintended jokes Ambiguity offers the audience a rich source of humour at the newsreader’s expense. Orchestra musicians at the Royal Opera House are threatening to strike next week, if the management turn down a 10 per cent no-strings pay rise. Teams of traditional dancers from various parts of Kenya exposed themselves to world scouts’ delegates in a grand performance. About 50 students broke into the college, smashing glass and chantin...
0172 – Typo Tragedies
June 20, 2021 23:01 - 2 minutes - 1.52 MB2021.06.21-0172 – Typo Tragedies Typos I was once left a story to read on-air “A woman has died after falling from her house” after a slapdash colleague had meant to write “horse”, but the first sentence looked entirely plausible at first glance. It wasn’t until the second line (“the animal had to be put down”) that the mistake became obvious (and I had to find the original source material to double-check that the “animal” was indeed a horse). = Audio recording script and show notes...
0171 – Sing-Song Scripts
June 19, 2021 23:01 - 6 minutes - 4.09 MB2021.06.20-0171 – Sing-Song Scripts Sing-song scripts Sentences of varying length will help you avoid a sing-song rhythm and incorrect intonation (with the emphasis on the repetition of a beat rather than where it’s meant). That means that longer sentences like this one, are often made up of a series of phrases which can be subtly read as a ‘unit’, as long as the correct intonation is kept. Read this story and see if you can spot a problem. A fire has torn through a factory in Mancheste...
0170 – Similarly Spelt Words
June 18, 2021 23:01 - 3 minutes - 2.41 MB2021.06.19-0170 – Similarly Spelt Words It may be that the writer has incorrectly spelled a word, or that you know from your own experience that your eye-to-mouth co-ordination on some words always catches you out. I am always worried about reading “was arrested by an uninformed police officer” rather than “a uniformed police officer” (or something similar) because I have ‘word-blindness’ when it comes to those two similar spellings. Here are some more to watch out for, and maybe highligh...
0169 – Rhyme Time
June 17, 2021 23:01 - 3 minutes - 2.48 MB2021.06.18-0169 – Rhyme Time Rhyme-time These are invariably unintended and are only realised when a script comes to be read aloud: Mr Grimes said at the time he didn’t mind the fine, Defence Counsel Simon Gee said the jury had to set the men free on their not guilty plea. One defendant, a stocky Croatian, yelled no justice was done in this nation. For disturbance in court, the judge said he ought to serve six further months on probation. == Audio recording script and show notes (c) ...
0168 – Can I Quote You?
June 16, 2021 23:01 - 5 minutes - 3.45 MB2021.06.17-0168 – Can I Quote You? Quote marks It is rare that you will have a direct quote in a script, news or otherwise, but if you do, it indicates that the words must not be changed. That’s usually for a legal reason: He said he had “absolutely and categorically” no knowledge of the attack on his colleague. Or to distance yourself the reader personally from the words you are about to say: And called the judge “a complete cow”. A quote may be in a script to make the line more dr...
0167 – Problematic Punctuations
June 15, 2021 23:01 - 6 minutes - 4.11 MB2021.06.16-0167 – Problematic Punctuations Punctuation A good script should be properly punctuated… to be read aloud! So that may not stick strictly accurately to the grammar and structure were taught at school, but whatever works to help the reader make sense of the sentence, where to place inflection or where to pause. All the dots and dashes are there for a reason: to help the reader read correctly so they can better communicate with their audience. Commas Not only do commas indicate...
0166 - Problematic Pronunciations
June 14, 2021 23:01 - 4 minutes - 2.74 MB2021.06.15-0166 – Problematic Pronunciations Pronunciations Check any word of phrase you are not familiar with, or with which you just know you will trip up over: · The engineering company Thales is actually pronounced ‘tar-les’ and not ‘thayles’ · The word bombardier is ‘bom-ber-DEER’, but when it refers to the French locomotive company it is ‘bom-BARDY-AY’ · A colleague once referred to the city of Middlesbrough as ‘middles-BRUFF’ rather than ‘middles-BURRA’. It ...
0165 – Initially Speaking
June 13, 2021 23:01 - 2 minutes - 1.59 MB2021.06.14-0165 – Initially Speaking Initialisations Beware of initials of organisations that are said as individual letters: · The RMT Union · The BBC And initials which are said as words (acronyms) · NICE, NATO, AIDS And abbreviations which make no obvious logical sense, but we know how to say them, almost instinctively. It would look odd to see “missus” in a script rather than “Mrs” for example! There are also initials which may look as though they are a word...
0164 – (Talking In Parenthesis)
June 12, 2021 23:01 - 1 minute - 1.29 MBBrackets / parenthesis In broadcast scripts, words or phrases in brackets are usually not to be read out loud: · A direction to a presenter “(TURN TO CAMERA 1)”, (READ WITH PASSION”) · Additional information “(Source: Metropolitan Police)” · A guide to pronunciation “Henry St John-Stevens (pron: SIN’jn stevens) says it’s a great opportunity.” Words in brackets are usually omitted from automatic timings of a script or show. == Audio recording script and show notes...
0163 – All About Alliteration
June 11, 2021 23:01 - 44 seconds - 498 KB0163 – All About Alliteration A little alliteration (try saying that out loud!) may occasionally be acceptable, but sometimes several similar sounds spoken aloud sound stupid, while a series of superfluous hissing s and c sounds sound senselessly sibilant. == Audio recording script and show notes (c) 2021 Peter Stewart 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 ...
0162 – How To Say ‘100’
June 10, 2021 23:01 - 1 minute - 848 KB0162 – How To Say ‘100’ A copywriter once showed me a script: “This bed is now only 126.99 that’s down by 259.06!” And said: “If it’s the price you’re selling it’s ‘a hundred and 26-99’, not ‘one-hundred’, because ‘a-hundred’ sounds cheaper than ‘one-hundred’... And if it’s the saving you want to promote, say ‘one-hundred’ because it sounds bigger.” == Through these around-5-minute episodes, you can build your confidence and competence with advice on breathing and reading, inflection...
0161 – Cut The Number Of Numbers
June 09, 2021 23:01 - 4 minutes - 3.31 MB0161 – Cut The Number Of Numbers “The current estimate of £200m is around £50m lower than this time last year” “The current estimate of 200-million pounds is around 50-million lower than this time last year”. England opener Dom Sibley says he should have scored five Test centuries and is "greedy" for "more big runs" in the final two Tests against Pakistan. The 24-year-old former Surrey man averages 39.50 with the bat for his country and has scored two hundreds in 10 Tests since making hi...
0160 – Put The Best Word On The Beat
June 08, 2021 23:01 - 4 minutes - 2.95 MB0160 – Put The Best Word On The Beat “The mood between the Prime Minister and the President as gone from bad to worse today, because of the new trade war.” “Police say the body of a man has been found in the remains of city hall that caught fire at the weekend”. “With radio … people tend to listen with half an ear. So… the first few words of a news item may easily slip by unnoticed. Avoid putting key words right at the beginning.” “Broadcast Journalism” Routledge https://www.amazon.co.u...
0159 – Where To Put The Word You Want To Emphasise
June 07, 2021 23:01 - 5 minutes - 3.46 MB0159 – Where To Put The Word You Want To Emphasise As Mervin Block and Joe Durso say[1] , such a construction creates tension and interest. In the English language it’s what we do in conversation: “I’m going into town to buy some new red shoes” “because I want to buy some new red shoes, I am going into town” “I’m going in to town because some new red shoes is what I want to buy”. “The proper place in the sentence for the word or group of words that the author desires to make mo...
0158 - Cut Clichés And Keep Familiar Words
June 06, 2021 23:01 - 2 minutes - 1.54 MB0158 - Cut Clichés And Keep Familiar Words Shakespeare often made fun of pompous speech. “An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.” (Richard III) And when the first English dictionary was published in 1604 (“A Table Alphabeticall of Hard Usual English Wordes”) its compiler Robert Cawdrey appealed for plain language: “Some men seek so far for outlandish English, that they forget altogether their mother’s language, so that if some of their mothers were alive, they were not able t...
0157 - Say Who Says Something, Before Saying What They Said
June 05, 2021 23:01 - 1 minute - 1.27 MB0157 - Say Who Says Something, Before Saying What They Said “It’s the best new podcast mic that has been released in 10 years… that’s what newpodcastmics.com said in a recent review…”. “Newpodcastmics.com said in a recent review that it’s the best new podcast mic that’s been released in 10 years…” “My YouTube videos are showing growth signs” “My YouTube videos are showing signs of growth”. == Through these around-5-minute episodes, you can build your confidence and competence wit...
0156 – Don’t Use An Introductory Phrase Or Clause
June 04, 2021 23:01 - 2 minutes - 1.88 MB0156 – Don’t Use An Introductory Phrase Or Clause “So I can rise up the Apple podcast charts, I’m going to ask you to leave a review” “I’m going to ask you to leave a review so I can rise up the Apple podcast charts”. “In this video you will discover how to make at home – and with only three ingredients and a few minutes in a microwave, and it’ll taste unbelievably great – a chocolate cake in a mug”. “In this video you will discover how to make at home a chocolate cake in a mug. It onl...
0155 – Keep Words Short And Relatable
June 03, 2021 23:01 - 1 minute - 1.16 MB0155 – Keep Words Short And Relatable As well as keeping sentences short, keep words short. Most people use short words when they talk in ‘real life’, so if you’re trying to emulate this style then think of doing the same. Clarity is the key, without resorting to baby talk. If you’re used to saying, and people are used to hearing words such as phone, TV, fridge and plane, then why start using telephone, television, refrigerator and aeroplane? == Through these around-5-minute episodes, you...
0154 – The Easy-Listening Formula
June 02, 2021 23:01 - 1 minute - 1.01 MB0154 – The Easy-Listening Formula American broadcaster Irving E. Fang researched what makes broadcast copy easy or difficult to understand. He devised the Easy Listening Formula, which is based on the length of words in a sentence. The idea is to add up all the syllables in a sentence, then subtract from that the number of words. If the final score is higher than 20, the sentence contains too many long and abstract words that would make it hard to understand, and it should be cut down. =...
0153 – Multi-Syllable Sentences
June 01, 2021 23:01 - 2 minutes - 1.51 MB0153 – Multi-Syllable Sentences The Schools Minister Nick Gibb says allowing students in England to use their mock exam results is an extra safety net for a small group of pupils. This follows a decision by the Scottish government to reinstate grades estimated by teachers because of the complaints that a calibration method had unfairly impacted on disadvantaged students. Nick Gibb said the changes to the system in England would help address this. == Through these around-5-minute episod...
0152 – Keep Sentences Short
May 31, 2021 23:01 - 2 minutes - 1.34 MB0152 – Keep Sentences Short “I have invited her onto the podcast this week in order for you to be able to literally hear for yourself the changes she’s in the process of making” becomes “I’ve invited her so you can you to hear the changes she’s making”. “Scientific advisers to the government have calculated that a short so-called ‘circuit breaker’ lockdown over the October half-term break could save thousands of lives” becomes “Scientific advisers to the government say a short lockdown ...