Making An Impression: The Sketches - Foran & Harbour 2

July 12, 2021

Part 2 of my recording with the amazing Irish impressionist Al Foran and voice acting superstar Kate Harbour. We discuss bad Irish accents and dare Kate to try hers out on Al, we delve into the contained fury of Roy Keane, i…

Making An Impression: The Sketches - McGowan & Berry Part 2

July 5, 2021

This is part 2 of my recording with the fabulous Josh Berry and legendary Alistair McGowan. We discuss the risks involved in doing impressions of the actual people when they’re in the same room, the difference between impres…

Making An Impression: The Sketches - Bremner & O'Sullivan 2

June 28, 2021

This is part 2 of the show I recorded with the insanely brilliant Rory Bremner and Kate O’Sullivan. We discuss how musicality is so often part of the impressionist’s armoury, I talk about doing Billy Connolly in a toilet - a…

Making An Impression: The Sketches - Lewis & Posthill

June 21, 2021

A new voice - indeed, several voices – we haven’t heard on the show before, courtesy of the brilliant Francine Lewis. She’s joined by the equally brilliant Danny Posthill. We had to overcome some technical difficulties, so t…

Making An Impression: The Sketches - McGowan & East

June 14, 2021

The brilliant Alistair McGowan and Hannah East join us for the first part of this pod. We livestreamed the entire show to YouTube and Facebook and had a lot of fun doing so. It should still be available on the Making An Impr…

Making An Impression: The Sketches - Bremner & Diggle

June 7, 2021

This week we’re joined by the legend that is Rory Bremner and a guy who blew me away with his boxing impressions when I interviewed him in series 1, super talented Adam Diggle. Adam talks about his experience voicing animati…

Making An Impression: The Sketches - McGowan & O'Sullivan 2

May 31, 2021

Part 2 of this terrific show features the spectacular vocal skills of Alistair McGowan and Kate O'Sullivan. We discuss the difficulties involved in maintaining an impression, Alistair amply demonstrating his mastery of the a…

Making An Impression: The Sketches - East & Altman

May 24, 2021

We welcome back the wonderful Darren Altman and, making her debut on the show, the phenomenal Hannah East. We discuss how Hannah approaches male voices and hear her amazing football manager impressions, Darren explores ‘beig…

Making An Impression: The Sketches - Bremner & Bianco

May 17, 2021

The remarkable Christina Bianco joins us all the way from the hustle and bustle of New York and, from steady old Oxfordshire, the wonderful Rory Bremner. We discuss when to use caricature/cartoon impressions and when more ac…

Making An Impression: The Sketches - Foran & Harbour

May 10, 2021

Two amazing voice talents on this week's show. From Ireland, the extraordinary Al Foran and from England the immensely gifted Kate Harbour. We discuss the weather – well you have to – and cycling. Why not? Al conveys the mis…

Making An Impression: The Sketches - Berry & McGowan

May 3, 2021

Two brilliant impressionists for you. The legend that is Alistair McGowan and the extraordinary young genius Josh Berry. We discuss whether impressionists should tell the audience who they’re about to do, we look, again, at …

Making An Impression: The Sketches - Bremner & O'Sullivan

April 26, 2021

The peerless Rory Bremner and stunningly talented Kate O’Sullivan bring their amazing vocal skills to the show this week. Rory and I discuss how to do Keir Starmer – essentially it involves loading up on phlegm, there’s a bi…

Making An Impression: The Sketches - McGowan & O'Sullivan

April 19, 2021

The amazing Alistair McGowan and Kate O'Sullivan tackle three brand new sketches. Tess Daly, Carol Kirkwood, Louis Theroux, Lyse Doucet and Alan Shearer are among the many characters who make an appearance. Alistair drills d…

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Making An Impression - Posthill & Altman

April 12, 2021

Danny Posthill and Darren Altman join me for this hilarious episode, the first in the new series. The sketches include an attempt at three Morgan Freemans (funny but failed), some biting political satire with Putin, Biden an…

You're Popping - Kate O'Sullivan

Jan. 8, 2021

Kate O'Sullivan is one of the most in-demand voiceover artists in the country. As those who heard her on our sister podcast Making An Impression will know, she is also a magnificent impressionist. And it was those skills tha…

You're Popping - Tanya Rich

Dec. 18, 2020

Hugely experienced and massively versatile voiceover artist Tanya Rich is our guest on You're Popping this week. Tanya has voiced everything from high profile TV and radio campaigns to animations and corporate videos. She ca…

You're Popping - Jim Meskimen

Dec. 11, 2020

Vocal genius Jim Meskimen is my guest this week all the way from LA. Having dazzled us with his impressions and techniques on Making An Impression, here Jim talks about his life behind the microphone as a voice actor, coveri…

You're Popping - Clare Reeves

Dec. 4, 2020

Clare Reeves has been churning out top quality work from her home studio for years. A self-confessed geek, she revels in tweaking her audio output to within an inch of its life. TV and radio commercials are her staple, but g…

You're Popping - Nicola Redman

Nov. 27, 2020

Nicola Redman is one of the country's top voice and accent coaches. She's also one of the best voiceover artists around. In this week's pod, she lifts the lid on some amazing vocal exercises, tells us how she was once that v…

You're Popping - Darren Altman

Nov. 20, 2020

Brilliant impressionist and voiceover supremo Darren Altman chats about playing a blocked drain and a superhero pig, lifts the lid on his throat-ripping video games experience, offers some insights into his interesting editi…

You're Popping - Melissa Sinden

Nov. 13, 2020

Melissa Sinden has been among the UK's top voiceover artists for 30 years. Along the way, she has been on the end of endless weird directions from creatives, struggled to say 'traditional', worked in some very odd studios an…

New Podcast News!

Nov. 10, 2020

Just a short trailer to tell you about my new podcast, You're Popping. Featuring some of the finest voiceover talents in the world, You're Popping will delve into tough gigs, difficult words, celebrity tittle-tattle and a wh…

Scheiffer Bates

Aug. 28, 2020

Scheiffer Bates is a phenomenon. Already an internet star with millions of views for his gold standard Gordon Ramsey and '100 impressions in 5 minutes' videos, he has already appeared on US television and voiced numerous cha…

Josh Robert Thompson

Aug. 21, 2020

Josh Robert Thompson was the voice - and puppetmaster - behind Geoff Peterson on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson for nearly 5 years. He provided hundreds of character voices and impressions and often took off the gues…