About Emma
Emma Clarke is a leading female voiceover and comedy/drama writer. She voices all kinds of things from advertisements to radio identity packages – but is best known as the ‘voice of the London Underground’.
Previous postings
- Happy New Year!
- It’s the season of the sofa ad!
- Party time!
- Can’t sleeeeeeep!!!
- Pre-Christmas nerves
- Me and the Marzipan Taco comedy podcast
- All change please!
- Down under-ground?
- And this is normality?
- Up close and personal
- Should I do a show at next year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe?
- Emma on the George Lamb Show on BBC 6 Music, 30th November
- Thanks for the support
Archives
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.