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When part of your work is recording corporate and explainer video voiceovers you can discover quite a range of things  you previously had no idea existed.

For example non slip tennis courts; a special plastic used in photovoltaic cells; an iphone app that controls wood burning stoves; how to decommission wind turbines; a machine that measures human body resonant frequencies; how to turn a conservatory into an extra room; a water distribution and sewerage company in the desert in the UAE and finding out how to drive fancy VW cars over rocky terrain – you name it I’ve done the voice over!.

I hope these blog posts give a flavour of the more interesting voiceover stuff that sometimes comes my way – plus some of the other things I like that I’ve come across in those moments when I’m waiting for the next script to arrive!

Chris Radley – Voice Over


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Aston Stealth microphone close up Photo by Louis Radley

Voiceovers – back in the booth – again!

 June 19, 2023
Back in May I reported on my voice over blog that I was getting back behind the mic after eye surgery – following that post I had a few busy weeks until the time came to have my other eye operated on. This has now taken place and after some further recuperation over the last week or so I am now once again back in the booth and raring to read more

AT4033 microphone with pop shield. Photo by Louis Radley

Back in the voice over booth.

 May 10, 2023
I’m getting back behind the microphone to do some VO recording in my voice over booth after a couple of weeks recovering from eye surgery. Now with part of one of my corneas replaced and healed I’m back and firing on all cylinders and getting stuck into a corporate narration, a number of IVR messages and a pharmaceutical product information video narration. After a few years of declining vision while read more

Leka Xi logo

Voice Over – another explainer

 March 27, 2023
Here is an explainer video that I recorded a voice over for recently. I have worked for Leka Systems for a number of years and was very happy to be asked to narrate this video explaining one of their recent innovations. It is always pleasing to have clients that come back to use you time after time. You can see more about the system on their website here. Chris Radley read more

Aston Element microphone close up Photo by Louis Radley

VO and redundancy – it’s not what you think!

 February 6, 2023
I recently read a blog post by a voice over artist which had some sensible advice for anyone who works in their own voice over home studio. It was originally posted by FVO Jenna Sharp (left) in December but I only came across the piece this week. In a nutshell her advice was about the importance of what some people call redundancy – this is where you have a back-up read more

David Hamilton

Radio presenters with long careers

 February 1, 2023
I still tend to describe myself as a voice over artist with a radio background. After all I was a radio presenter for over 20 years. I gave it up because at that time in commercial radio it seemed like the only way to carry on in the business as you got older was to move into management and that never really appealed to me. I felt that I was read more

CR3 Rover video grab

Voiceover narration update

 January 24, 2023
A recent post on LinkedIn from another voiceover suggested that January is a good time to take stock and also to catch up on a things that may get overlooked at other times when you are more busy. So it’s a good time to track down and update examples of previous work that, for example, you might use on your website. It’s good advice and so today I posted a read more

AT4033 microphone with pop shield. Photo by Louis Radley

Health curse of the voice over

 January 10, 2023
The winter time curse of voice overs is to experience a cold or a sore throat. It is an occupational hazard at this time of year. Looking back I realise there have been a number of posts by me at this time of year along a similar theme. I ought to try and find a way of keeping more healthy. Many years ago my brother used to get a lot read more

An amazing home studio

 November 30, 2022
Many voice overs have home studios as do many musicians. The voice over version can be quite simple with just some kind of booth, a mic and mic stand, somewhere to put the script and a laptop for recording. In the world of music a home studio can be rather more complex as I discovered watching a video of a visit to the “home studio” of song writer and record read more

Aston Element microphone and pop shield Photo by Louis Radley

Getting pronunciation right

 November 22, 2022
On a recent self directed medical equipment explainer voice over job for a client in Sweden I had sent him the VO recording only to find he thought my pronunciation of a word was incorrect. The word in question was “respiratory” and my client was adamant that I had got it wrong. The way I have always said this word is “ris-pira-tree” with the emphasis on the second syllable. He read more

A surprising voice

 November 7, 2022
For once this is a post that is not about voice overs but is still about a voice – and a surprising one at that. I’ve not really been a huge fan of singer Billy Bragg but I’m certainly aware of his music and it would seem somewhere along the way I must have started to follow him on social media. This week a post by him popped up on read more


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