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Oct 2016
21m 46s

Presenting: Finding your voice

BBC Radio
About this episode

Even media professionals need to hone their presenting skills. Whether you speak too fast, forget to breathe, get nervous, or just need to put some energy behind your words, you can do lots of simple things to improve how you sound on air.

Voice and presentation coach Elspeth Morrison recently visited the BBC Academy podcast team in Birmingham to deliver a coaching session. In this fly-on-the-wall podcast, you can listen as Kris Bramwell, Zayna Shaikh, Jack Burgess, Roxy Ebrahim-Khan and Charles Miller are given the task of re-writing an article in their own style and presenting it to Elspeth as she attempts to develop their voice and help them brush up on their presenting skills.

“When presenting a podcast, it should sound like you've just wondered in and are having a chat.” – Elspeth Morrison In this podcast we learn how to:

- Mark our scripts ahead of recording - Find our “broadcast self” - Handle our nerves - Write a script to our voice

Elspeth Morrison is a voice and presentation specialist who has worked with actors, business people and journalists for more than 15 years.

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