by Jonathan Pagden | Aug 21, 2023 | Random memories
Another random memory from my (much) younger days on radio stations around the UK.I saw a post the other day with a recent picture in a radio studio featuring someone I worked with at a different radio station – gulp – forty years ago. So I went searching,...
by Jonathan Pagden | Jul 30, 2023 | Live events, Random memories
Greys Court is a National Trust stately home near Henley, it’s very old and has oodles of history but it’s not that big and was lived in till 2003 so it’s quite ‘human’ as stately homes go.It has the usual quota of portraits and...
by Jonathan Pagden | Jul 13, 2023 | Live events
How do you make sure the person you’ve booked to do the talking at your event says the things you want them to?(This list is in ascending order – feel free to imagine chart rundown-type music if you want to)4. Write the words for them.Seems like a...
by Jonathan Pagden | Jul 8, 2023 | Live events
A thought inspired by voiceover artist Kathryn Vinclaire* talking about ‘personality’ in doing voiceovers.’Personality’ is something we know when we encounter it but it’s impossible to measure.In my particular line of live events, making...
by Jonathan Pagden | Jun 19, 2023 | Live events
Quote of the week: “You should do that for a living!” – event producer upon hearing me do a VOG as a one-off (I was there to do something else).Well, what does one say – apart from “I do!”.They called me ‘Voice Of The...
