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Movers and Shakers launch Parkinson’s Voice campaign
TODAY! 11 April, is World Parkinson’s Day and, BVA Patron Mark Mardell, the distinguished journalist and former BBC broadcaster, is launching a year-long campaign to raise the voices of people living with Parkinson’s Disease. Mark is one-sixth of the award-winning Parkinson’s podcast team, Movers and Shakers. The impact of Parkinson’s on the voice can be an especially…
Read MoreLooking After Children’s Voices – by Jenevora Williams
Looking After Children’s Voices Jenevora Williams is an international authority on children’s voice and teaching singing. She was the first singing teacher in the UK to be awarded a PhD in voice science and won the BVA Van Lawrence Prize in 2010. Her book Teaching Singing to Children and Young Adults is now in its 3rd (updated)…
Read MoreExpert Vocal Mimicry: How Wallace got a new voice
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…
Read MoreVoice in the News: Life Changing (BBC: Sian Edwards)
In her series Life Changing (BBC r4) Sian Edwards speaks with Tania Bage, post laryngectomy, about the permanent loss of her voice and how she is learning to communicate all over again. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0025c09
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