Expert Vocal Mimicry: How Wallace got a new voice

By Louise Gibbs | January 6, 2025 |

If you sat down to view the latest Wallace & Gromit offering this Xmas, you would have heard the debut of voice artist, Ben Whitehead, as Wallace. A role established previously and most distinctively by Peter Sallis. In her article for The Conversation BVA member, Jenny Chantelle Tullett gives the background to this feat of…

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The Voice of Shirley Bassey (BVA Patron)

By Louise Gibbs | September 18, 2024 |

The great Shirley Bassey (BVA Patron) is the subject of Professor Dominic McHugh‘s recorded Gresham lecture. Here, Professor McHugh takes us through Bassey’s early years, getting started as a singer, and the creative reinvention needed to stay at the top of her profession for seven decades. Most informatively (from a vocal care and performance perspective),…

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Profile: Mark Mardell

By Rosario Mawby | April 4, 2024 |

Mark Mardell speaks – quietly, powerfully In September 2023, the BVA was honoured when former BBC broadcaster Mark Mardell joined our distinguished group of Patrons. Following a career at the forefront of reporting on national and international politics on TV and radio, Mark has spoken openly about his experience of living with Parkinson’s disease. Parkinson’s…

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