Episode 40

Blanche Anderson: The one with the Halloween Screamer!

In this Halloween special episode of “How Do You Say That?!” sponsored by britishvoiceover.co.uk, Scottish voice actor Blanche Anderson joins Sam and Mark to talk about the spooktacular scripts falling into our inboxes, the variety of ghouls, witches, zombies and goblins we can conjure out of our mouths, and the crossover between audio drama and audio books!

Our VO question this week is inspired by Blanche, because she's dyslexic. We're asking what fonts and other methods can make sight reading easier, and how can producers and script-writers help people with dyslexia.

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

After two days of pleasant rambling over grassy downs and along  narrow by-lanes, they came out on the high road.  They were strolling along, the Mole by the horse's head…when they saw a small cloud of dust advancing on them at incredible speed. With a blast of wind and a whirl of sound it was on them! The horse reared and plunged driving the cart backwards towards the ditch. Then, there was a deafening crash - and the cart lay on its side in the ditch, a complete wreck.

Script 2

At Nice Activity this Halloween, experience ghostly ghouls and things that go bump in the night.

Ow... Who put that there? Ahem...

Join Nice Activity Ghost Hunt Spooktacular, until the thirty-first of October.

With hair-raising photo ops, ghostly projections and more, it’s frightening fun for everyone.

And you could win tickets for two adults and two children – just creep on over to Nice Activity.com

Muahahaha... (coughs)

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About our guest:

Blanche Anderson is a multi-award-winning Scottish Voiceover Artist with over 11 years’ experience. North of the border she is the female station voice for BBC Radio Scotland, BBC Sounds and the voice of Lidl till-points. Blanche also works internationally and has voiced everything from radio, TV and cinema commercials, to corporate training videos, radio drama productions, IVR, gaming, audio description, animation and crowd ADR. Clients have included Amazon, Chromebook, Samsung and HSBC.

Blanche's Website

@ScottishBlanche on Instagram

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

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

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Mark Ryes

With over 40 years representing major international clients such as Google, Emirates and HSBC; Mark has been trusted to be the voice for some of the world’s biggest brands. Beyond the big names, it’s his reputation with clients that truly speaks to his professionalism and work ethic. If your business needs a fresh voice to represent you, then make it a British voice…
Mark's also seen weekly on television across the UK, both on ITV1 and Ideal World.
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Samantha Boffin

Elegantly British with an intelligent, warm and seductive voice, Samantha helps creatives and production companies create great audio that really connects with their audience.

BBC-trained and with over 20 years of broadcast experience on both sides of the mic, she's created award-winning promos, narration and commercials for companies all around the globe, including the BBC, Sky, Games Workshop, John Lewis, Audible and Penguin Random House.