Stupid Facial

A few years ago I was looking at a website about the early silent comedies and read an interview with Paul Merton. (I can’t remember what the website was). He described some of the first ever films, called, regrettably, ‘facials’. These would involve...

The Voiceover Experience Part II

Most sessions go well. Most producers and most performers are lovely, talented, sensible people. But every now and then you get a difficult one. In the ten years or so around the turn of the century, voice of Ferrero Rocher Jonathan Kydd probably recorded more v-os...

Fiat Money

The gap between rich and poor is the widest it’s ever been in history. And it keeps on getting wider.   Plato is purported to have said (but I can’t actually find the quote) that , ideally, the person at the top of an organization should earn 6 times more than...