Blogs and podcasts

Emma’s blogs and podcasts on voicing, performing, writing and whatever else she has time left for.

Blogs and podcasts

Welcome to Emma Clarke’s global soapbox – the antidote to modern living, encapsulated in a series of freewheeling rants, known these days as blogs and podcasts.

Music in radio ads

Thursday Feb 21 2008

Making assumptions about a commercial’s target market leads to all sorts of musical mayhem...

The pre-VOX conference preparations are underway!

Wednesday Feb 20 2008

Emma is building up to the annual highlight in the voiceover diary. But what will she choose from the menu?

My daughter is starting to ask questions...

Tuesday Feb 19 2008

How do you explain being a voiceover to a small child? How do you explain the value of being a voiceover? Tough call...

The British Class System – how can it be spotted in radio ads

Friday Feb 15 2008

After being off sick, Emma updates her readers on what she’s been doing in her first few days back at work and then gives us an overview of how the British notion of class plays out in radio ads.

How wet are YOU?

Monday Jan 21 2008

Today’s the most depressing day of the year apparently. But is Emma depressed? Far from it!

Media exposure – the uncomfortable truth about reality

Monday Jan 7 2008

If you’re not keen on hearing the sound of your own voice, how do you cope seeing yourself – your actual FACE and everything – on the telly? You avoid it, that’s how. Emma tells us how she shuns the sight of her own very self.