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« on: May 15, 2023, 05:58:01 »
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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?
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« Reply #1 on: May 15, 2023, 06:51:52 »
Whoever it is the operative word is "occasional", I think.
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« Reply #2 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.
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« Reply #3 on: May 15, 2023, 09:37:59 »
Quite a few years back I was the voice of Reading Buses.  I'm cheap.
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« Reply #4 on: May 15, 2023, 20:18:03 »
Not all guest announcers are so welcome. Sky News reports that

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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.



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Two arrests were made.
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« Reply #6 on: May 15, 2023, 21:33:48 »
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« Reply #7 on: May 15, 2023, 21:45:50 »
Quote from: TonyK on May 15, 2023, 20:18:03
Not all guest announcers are so welcome. Sky News reports that

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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.



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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.
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