Alan Roberts

Voice Description

I worked in Radio for 30 years as a Presenter and Producer with Local Commercial Stations as a DJ, Pirate Radio (Offshore) and with the BBC as a Producer at Radio 2 and BBC Local Radio at Radio Oxford and the World Service as a Presenter. Many commercial voice overs and TV and TV Voicers including narations, commercials, readings etc. Also worked as an actor and have appeared in several TV Productions and Films.
National Voicers and TV Trailers include:
Halifax Building Society, Ford Cars, Farscape, Return to Treasure Island etc...
Film and TV acting credits include: Husbands, Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines, The Games, Battle of Britain,The Jokers, Den Fremmede (Denmark), Wacko, Oliver Twist, Jackanory, Puppet Man, Crossroads (6 episodes) Casualty (3 episodes) Northanger Abbey, Jamaica Inn, Return to Treasure Island, Robin of Sherwood, Reasonable Force, Boon (4 episodes)Y.E.S., Les Girls, Zero Option, Sense and Sensibilty, Deadhead, Blakes 7, etc....:

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

• Middle Age Male
• Senior Male

Language(s) of Which I Am a Native Speaker:

• English - Australian / NZ
• English - British
• English - North American
• English - South African

I Offer my Services for these Recording Purposes

• Commercials
• Promos
• IVR, voicemail, phone systems, and on-hold messages
• Training, business presentations, sales, and web sites
• Audiobooks
• Videogames
• Documentaries
• TV shows and movies
• Movie and game trailers
• Podcasts
• Adult content
• Songs
• Others (on-camera, infomercials, live announcers, spokespersons)

Jobs I Am Willing to Take (Union-wise)

• Non-Union Jobs

• Jobs for British Equity signatories

My Union Affiliations and Memberships

• British Equity

My Recording and Delivery Capabilities

• I will go to any designated studio in my area
• I have ISDN in my studio
• I can record and then deliver the audio files via Email
• I can record and then deliver the files by regular mail

Pre-, Post- and Production Services I Offer

• I offer copywriting services
• I can deliver edited and finished voice tracks
• I offer voice direction services
• I offer radio ad production services
• I have a music library and can add music to any project

My Home Base

Torquay, United Kingdom

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

Many commercial voice overs and TV and TV Voicers including narations, commercials, readings etc. Also worked as an actor and have appeared in several TV Productions and Films. I can voice most English and British Dialects including Welsh, Ulster, Irish (and Dublin). West Country English, London, West Midlands, Scouse etc..
US Southern States, New York.
Austrailian. New Zealand, South African, Indian.
Scandinavian accents, Most European including French, Italian , German eic.. I also speak (and can read) some Danish, Norwegian and Swedish.

My Voice Experience

BBC National Radio 2 Producer, BBC World Service Presenter(Country Style), Regular Weekday Radio Presenter with GWR FM (Bristol) Severn Sound (Gloucester), Swansea Sound (West Wales).
Syndicated Rock Documentaries on Diana Ross, Elkie Brooks, Dusty Springfield, Paul McCartney etc to National BBC Radio.
Other Stations include BBC Radio Oxford, Radio London, Jazz FM.
Acting in several National TV Productions including Robin of Sherwood (HTV) Casualty (BBC) Reasonable Force (BBC) Boon (Central TV) Return to Treasure Island (HTV) Jamaica Inn (HTV) The Puppet Man (Channel 4) Blakes 7 (BBC) and others.
Trails and Promotions for BBC, HTV, Central TV.
Ads include: Halifax Building Society, Ford Cars, Pitch Black (Film Trail), Farscape, Tesco and many others

My Training

Redroofs Theatre School, England.
Numerous BBC Training Courses in Presentation, Production and Television Skills.

My Studio Equipment

Basic mixer, Sound Forge, Adobe Audition (Cool Edit), Cubasis.
Beyer, AKG and Superlux microphones.
Studio V3 enhancer.

Adobe Premier Pro Video Editing and dubs for Video Narations.
Have a small sound FX library and limited library music (prepaid) but a good popular music library including Film, TV, Theatre and soundtrack.

Additional Skills

Apart from getting old too early only the usual British things.
Voice overs for many tourist and leisure shorts. Voice acting and dubs from foreign to English films.
I Seem to get a lot of Sci-Fi voicers which I particularly love
Can also do that traditional English Voice from Cockney to Cornishman. Newsreader/Journalist voicers a speciality. Travel and Natural History Documentary Naration.
Character voices.

I also make/direct video programmes/EPK's on history, art and travel which I usually write and narrate. Produce/Present Radio Programmes for Syndication.
British Actors Equity member since a child actor but I don't follow the rates (who get's those anymore).

Payment Methods Accepted

• PayPal
• Personal checks, cashier's checks, or money orders in my local currency
• Personal checks, cashier's checks, or money orders in any currency

Contact Information

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