The Guardian
by Elisabeth Mahoney
January 25, 2008

Sally Traffic was not amused. Given that Sally Boazman, the travel reporter 
on Radio 2, is happy to allow colleagues and listeners to call her Sally 
Traffic, you'd guess she had a healthy sense of humour and didn't take life, 
including her on-air persona, too seriously. And you'd be right. Well, most 
of the time.
But earlier this week on the Chris Evans show, there was the unmistakable 
sound of Sally Traffic's nose being put ever so slightly out of joint. 
Snooker legend Dennis Taylor - yes, he of the fabulously oversized specs - 
was a guest on the show. Whatever he was supposed to be talking about didn't 
seem to interest him much - all Taylor wanted to discuss was the most 
beautiful voice on radio. The voice, he thought, that should be on all the 
time; the voice you listen to and swoon helplessly. The voice of Rebecca 
Pike, that is, the show's business reporter and star of the daily Fox the 
Fox feature.

Sally Traffic, Taylor would later add by calling back into the show, was his 
second favourite voice on radio. Boazman dismissed this news with amusing 
disdain - amusing because there sounded to be a genuine narky edge to it. 
Voice, to the radio broadcaster, is all. It replaces the looks, hair-do, 
outfit, demeanour, body language and personality of TV presenters - 
everything, apart from voice, that we use to decide if the person on screen 
is pleasing to us. On radio, even with web cams (which are mostly absolutely 
rubbish), the voice is all you have to tempt, delight and keep listeners.

So who has the loveliest voice on radio these days? Is it the voice itself, 
inviting and sultry-sounding (Charlotte Green), or is it the way the voice 
delivers what it says (Eddie Mair)? Whose voice are you always pleased to 
hear and why does it root you to the spot?

http://sport.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,10488,946514,00.html

Mike Terry wrote:

> So who has the loveliest voice on radio these days? 

I don't know Mike, I can't decide. Tell you what, you go first......?


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Mark
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Hi Mark

Have to agree with Charlotte Green (I daren't say Sarah Kennedy)


"Mark Carver" <mark.carver@invalid.invalid> wrote in message 
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> Mike Terry wrote:
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>> So who has the loveliest voice on radio these days?
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> I don't know Mike, I can't decide. Tell you what, you go first......?
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> -- 
> Mark
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Top posting ?       your OP so I will follow suit.

For my ears, it has to be Pippa Shay on Radio Oxford although not often 
enough. R2 could do worse than borrow her for the traffic bulletins although 
she used to do that a while ago.

Phian


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> Hi Mark
>
> Have to agree with Charlotte Green (I daren't say Sarah Kennedy)
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>
> "Mark Carver" <mark.carver@invalid.invalid> wrote in message 
> news:5vunb5F1olf2rU1@mid.individual.net...
>> Mike Terry wrote:
>>
>>> So who has the loveliest voice on radio these days?
>>
>> I don't know Mike, I can't decide. Tell you what, you go first......?
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Mark
>> Please replace invalid and invalid with gmx and net to reply.
>
>

> So who has the loveliest voice on radio these days?

Jackie Mason