Innovative thinking from Richard Wiseman

Innovative thinking from Richard Wiseman on spaceforideas.uk.com …audiobook extract read by Piers Gibbon EDIT: Now it looks like their website has disappeared so the audio doesn’t work

Yoko Ono has never eaten dogmeat

As a presenter and voiceover I have broadcast some odd things over the years. RESONANCE FM – APOLOGY TO YOKO ONO I’d like to interrupt our normal broadcast to read out a formal apology to Yoko Ono for an appalling and offensive story that we broadcast last week about her. We’ll be broadcasting this apology throughout the day. On 29 May 2007 at 9pm performance artist Mark McGowan appeared on the “Make Your Own Damn Music” show. For reasons best known to himself, Mark brought what he claimed was a cooked Corgi dog into the studio and ate some of it on air. Mark claimed that Yoko Ono was in the studio with him and that Yoko also tasted some of the dog meat. When the press contacted us, we subsequently confirmed that the story about Yoko was true. I’m embarrassed to announce that the story was completely untrue. Yoko was not in the studio, and in fact was not even in London, as she was in Russia, attending the opening of her show in the Moscow Biennale. She doesn’t know Mark, didn’t eat any dog meat, and has never eaten any dog meat. What we broadcast was a gratuitous, offensive lie. On behalf of Resonance FM I want to say that we are very sincerely sorry for the offence and distress that we’ve caused to Yoko. She is a renowned supporter of the arts and music and we owed her better than to lie about her in this way.

Voiceover for Chocolate for help with Presenting

Jessica Lopez is a talented young radio student at Birmingham University – she has done great work on the series I presented – The Knives Are Out. In return I have just done some voiceover for her in my Voiceover recording studio. She emailed a couple of commercials scripts – and then downloaded a couple of versions of the audio from my client download page. I think they are pretty good so I’m putting them up here so she can tell us what mark she got from her tutors.

Voiceover: Sakhalin

Sakhalin is in the news again this morning on Radio Four’s Today programme You can watch the documentary on Sakhalin and oil extraction that I narrated for Sarah Tierney of Clarity Productions

New website

Many thanks to Chris Wach for setting up my original website all those years ago…without whom it would never have happened. And thanks to Natasha Joiner for lovely images and designs too. And now there’s been a revamp and a move to a new server…many thanks to Jon McBain for sorting that out and making it look shiny. And welcome to the new site – leave a comment if you cannot find what you are looking for (you can use the search bar as well)

Voiceover – Genius of Photography BBC TV

just recorded the voiceovers for two of the interviewees at Molinare for the series “The Genius of Photography” which is being made by Wall to Wall for BBC 2 and 4 Looking forward to seeing it in 2007..especially the wild haired and shrewd Japanese guy… Category: Arts Duration: 6 x 60 Distributor: Wall To Wall Series Producer: Tim Kirby Executive Producer: Alex Graham, Michael Jackson

Voiceover: Sakhalin Island TV documentary

This documentary started life as a Channel Four news item I have now recorded the narration for it in my own recording studios for Sarah Tierney and Carina Wilson of Clarity Productions Ltd…it was edited by Mandi McInnes and it’s now being sold worldwide

Voiceover: Surveillance in the City – series starts this Thursday

SURVEILLANCE IN THE CITY…11pm ITV London every Thursday from 13th July 06 for six weeks 6 x 30min for ITV London & The History Channel. In London you are filmed 300 times a day. 20% of the world’s CCTV is in the UK. Who’s watching you and why? Exclusive access and personal stories from both sides of the law.

Voiceover: Run for Glory BBC1.

well the last episode went out…and it made me cry at the end well done to all the runners – you rock! And sorry to all the random people who have found my site on the web and have asked for copies of the programme. Nothing I can do about that…but as soon as Endemol send me a copy I will put some selected bits of video and audio with my other showreel stuff here

Voiceover: Passion for the Planet radio

Just done some work for Passion for the Planet It’s a new digital station that is definitely worth checking out you can also listen online here Passion is a radio station focusing on health and the environment … with world music mixed in