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Title: Voicovers / Announcements by famous people Post by: grahame on May 15, 2023, 05:58:01 From The Mirror (https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/graham-norton-flooded-support-liverpool-29978678)
Quote TV presenters Graham Norton and Rylan Clark have been the voice of Merseyrail trains during Eurovision week as the celebrations took place in Liverpool TV presenter Graham Norton has been flooded with praise from Liverpool after he issued an apology for his tongue-in-cheek travel announcements on Merseyrail. Who would you like to hear making occasional station and on-train announcements? Title: Re: Voicovers / Announcements by famous people Post by: CyclingSid on May 15, 2023, 06:51:52 Whoever it is the operative word is "occasional", I think.
Title: Re: Voicovers / Announcements by famous people Post by: Bob_Blakey on May 15, 2023, 08:22:03 This sort of nonsense has a cost, however small, and is money the railway industry should be spending on other more worthwhile stuff.
Title: Re: Voicovers / Announcements by famous people Post by: bobm on May 15, 2023, 09:37:59 Quite a few years back I was the voice of Reading Buses. I'm cheap.
Title: Re: Voicovers / Announcements by famous people Post by: TonyK on May 15, 2023, 20:18:03 Not all guest announcers are so welcome. Sky News reports that
Quote Hitler speech played on train's loudspeaker Two Austrian men have been charged after speeches by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler were reportedly played on a train's loudspeaker system. (https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AA1bdcRq.img?w=768&h=432&m=6) (Continues at source) (https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/hitler-speech-played-on-train-s-loudspeaker/ar-AA1bcW46?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=482e8ceaaae34a54a700e8b2249350dc&ei=77) Two arrests were made. Title: Re: Voicovers / Announcements by famous people Post by: JayMac on May 15, 2023, 21:04:43 Brian Blessed
Title: Re: Voicovers / Announcements by famous people Post by: johnneyw on May 15, 2023, 21:33:48 Basil Fawlty?
Title: Re: Voicovers / Announcements by famous people Post by: johnneyw on May 15, 2023, 21:45:50 Not all guest announcers are so welcome. Sky News reports that Quote Hitler speech played on train's loudspeaker Two Austrian men have been charged after speeches by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler were reportedly played on a train's loudspeaker system. (https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AA1bdcRq.img?w=768&h=432&m=6) (Continues at source) (https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/hitler-speech-played-on-train-s-loudspeaker/ar-AA1bcW46?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=482e8ceaaae34a54a700e8b2249350dc&ei=77) Two arrests were made. A similar stunt was pulled by two of my sixth form school mates on our final day at school. Instead of the usual end of school day tannoy announcements from the headmaster's office, they managed to override it with a cassette recording of Adolf having a rant at Nuremberg. This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |