Rory Barnett: The one with the Butch Energy!

In this week’s “How do you Say That?!”, the extremely versatile Rory Barnett joins Mark and Sam to talk about fitting an overwitten commercial script into 30 seconds, and how music can influence every part of your read. There's a huge amount of butch energy, and our vo question is all about how you find the correct pronunciation of words or names you've never heard of!

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

A product suite to today’s busy lifestyles, the gardening newcomers and for those wanting to do their part for the environment.

For the garden enthusiast... the underserved urban dweller... for the complete beginners who didn’t believe they could garden... we created this product.

An affordable, high-density vertical growing system designed for modern living. A complete garden-in-a-box.

This product allows you to take full control over the food you and your loved one’s consume.

We’ve made it so simple. Quick set up, low maintenance, minimal effort and once set up, it really just runs itself.

Script 2

Saving money right now feels like a no brainer.

Energy bills are at an all time high and we're all looking for clever ways to reduce them.

Solar panels from ‘Solar So Good’ could be the answer.

‘Solar So Good,’ the renewable energy specialists, have helped thousands of UK homeowners by installing money-saving solar panels.

And you may not know that when you have solar panels supplied and installed on your home, you don't pay any VAT... saving you even more money!

Visit Solar So Good dot co dot uk

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About our guest: Rory Barnett worked for the BBC for more than 15 years, but he started in the advertising industry, working on the iconic "Papa and Nicole" Renault Clio campaign.

He's a linguaphile - a lover of languages and words, who's been a voiceover for more than a decade. He speaks French fluently, and has studied German, Spanish, Arabic and Chinese. His website presents a world of possibilities including singing impressions, a NASA space launch commander and he narrates a poem in ancient Greek!

https://rorybarnett.com/ (have a look at the "Space & Other Oddities" tab!)

Here are the pronunciation resources we chatted about:

https://youglish.com/ and https://forvo.com/ and https://howjsay.com/