In this special festive episode of “How Do You Say That?!” sponsored by britishvoiceover.co.uk, Katy Maw and Phil Rowe join Sam and Mark for a right-old Christmas knees-up. As it's Boxing Day - there are four boxes stuffed with seasonal audio goodies! Of course, there are also four scripts, full of festive goodness... and some wildcards too!This episode is also entirely on video - only the second one we've done this way, so you can watch it on YouTube as well: htt...
In this special festive episode of “How Do You Say That?!” sponsored by britishvoiceover.co.uk, Katy Maw and Phil Rowe join Sam and Mark for a right-old Christmas knees-up. As it's Boxing Day - there are four boxes stuffed with seasonal audio goodies! Of course, there are also four scripts, full of festive goodness... and some wildcards too!
This episode is also entirely on video - only the second one we've done this way, so you can watch it on YouTube as well: https://youtu.be/WVclGe-xKaE
Get involved! Have you got a Wildcard suggestion that we should try or an idea for the show? Send it to us via Mark or Sam's social media or email it directly to podcast@britishvoiceover.co.uk
Script 1
Cassandra made a great start in secondary school this year. Better than we could have hoped for. Her number one sport continues to be water polo. She also joined the school concert band and jazz band. She has made a lot of friends and is popular in her year.
Jacqui manages to train as a surgeon while fitting in diving trips to Thailand, Cayman, Cuba and the Red Sea.
We've told you about Tori's sporting prowess, and at number 5 in the world, she is not doing badly!
The boys have a hamster.
Script 2
It was snowing. It was always snowing at Christmas. December, in my memory, is white as Lapland, although there were no reindeers. But there were cats. Patient, cold and callous, our hands wrapped in socks, we waited to snowball the cats. Sleek and long as jaguars and horrible-whiskered, spitting and snarling, they would slide and sidle over the white back-garden walls, and the lynx-eyed hunters, Jim and I, fur-capped and moccasined trappers from Hudson Bay, off Mumbles Road, would hurl our deadly snowballs at the green of their eyes.
Script 3
11 a.m. Office.
Oh my God. Daniel Cleaver just sent me a message.
Message Jones: You appear to have forgotten your skirt. As I think is made perfectly clear in your contract of employment, staff are expected to be fully dressed at all times. Cleave
Hah! Undeniably flirtatious. Have never messaged Daniel Cleaver before but brilliant thing about messaging system is you can be really quite cheeky and informal, even to your boss. Also can spend ages practising. This is what I sent:
Script 4
The finger pointed from the grave to him, and back again.
"No, Spirit! Oh no, no!"
The finger still was there.
"Spirit!" he cried, tight clutching at its robe, "hear me!
I am not the man I was. I will not be the man I must have been but for this intercourse. Why show me this, if I am past all hope!"
For the first time the hand appeared to shake.
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About our guests:
Katy Maw has been voicing for about a quarter of a century after becoming a classically trained actor in London. She works daily, predominantly on corporate & commercial scripts & has voiced literally thousands of local & National radio ads over the years and she works across all other mediums of voicing, like e-learning and IVR, narration and dubbing/ADR. She has been seen & heard on television and film sporadically over the years (Sherlock, Eastenders) and has, in more recent years, started voicing video games and audio drama as she gets back into her dramatic acting.
Her clients include Amazon, Blizzard, Warhammer, ASDA, T K Maxx, Global, Bauer, ITV & the BBC, but that is just the tip of the Blue Chip iceberg.
A natural RP speaker but equally at home using accents particular when she gets to use her Bristolian home town accent! Yea but no!!
Katy's Website
One way or another, Phil Rowe has been using his voice professionally since childhood.
Eager to somehow continue using his voice as an expressive tool, Phil was drawn to voiceover after a poor AI voice was supplied to him for a project that he was working on at the time. Phil replaced the offending voice with his own and, with decades of recording experience behind him, realised that he could grow a new career from his own studio.
Since then Phil has served hundreds of happy clients all over the globe, in English and in Welsh, with voiceovers to lend their projects gravitas, depth and emotion.
While his voice has covered many aspects of the industry, Phil especially enjoys scripts that call for a little drama and allow him to explore the full range of his versatility.
Phil has recently embraced the world of podcasting with his weekly poetry podcast 'A Voice Like This' and is also midway through recording his first self-penned and produced audio drama series with full cast, out in 2026!
Phil's Website
Resources: Click here for the Wildcard Generator and don't forget to think of an action your character can be doing!
About your hosts:
With over 40 years representing major international clients such as Google, Emirates and HSBC; Mark Ryes has been trusted to be the voice for some of the world’s biggest brands. If your business needs a fresh voice to represent you, then make it Mark's British voice. As a voiceover, TV presenter, podcaster or product demonstrator - Mark makes your brand truly sparkle!
Mark's demos & contact details: https://linktr.ee/britishvoiceovermark
Elegantly British with an intelligent, warm and seductive voice, Samantha Boffin helps creatives and production companies create great audio that really connects with their audience. BBC-trained and with over 20 years of broadcast experience on both sides of the mic, she's created award-winning promos, narration and commercials for companies all around the globe, including the BBC, Sky, Games Workshop, John Lewis, Audible and Penguin Random House.
Samantha's demos & contact details: https://linktr.ee/samanthaboffin
