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Anna Ford

(December 2004)

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TELEVISION
Bad start for Anna at the the start of the One. First thunderclap she lost her voice and for the rest of the headlines her voice was all croackey. She apologised at the start, but it's not the first time she has had such problems.

Does she have something similar to ITV's Mary Nightingale ?
JA
jamesmd
TELEVISION posted:
Bad start for Anna at the the start of the One. First thunderclap she lost her voice and for the rest of the headlines her voice was all croackey. She apologised at the start, but it's not the first time she has had such problems.

Does she have something similar to ITV's Mary Nightingale ?


what, a pregnancy?
TE
TELEVISION
Ha ha ha. No, I mean the voice thingy.
AR
arabian_lawrence
James Hall posted:
TELEVISION posted:
Bad start for Anna at the the start of the One. First thunderclap she lost her voice and for the rest of the headlines her voice was all croackey. She apologised at the start, but it's not the first time she has had such problems.

Does she have something similar to ITV's Mary Nightingale ?


what, a pregnancy?


Shocked Wink

I remember reading a story about Anna Ford and she lost her voice before giving the news and Sophie Raworth had to cover for her. I don't know the name of the newsreader on CNN but she lost her voice a few days ago too. I guess its just one of those things that happen.
WI
williamhanson
Newsreaders tend to over-work their voice. Some newsreaders have to talk for 3, even 4 hours (not literaly) on 24hr news channels.
BE
Ben Founding member
arabian_lawrence posted:
I remember reading a story about Anna Ford and she lost her voice before giving the news and Sophie Raworth had to cover for her.


I remember that, she got half-way through the One before handing over to Sophie, who was lackin in the make-up department IIRC.
BA
baoren
I watched that videohttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/2794683.stm The video is still there.
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Ant
This time she did do a good job of keeping to the thunder claps cos occasionally the newsreaders speak over the thunderclaps and completely loses timing with the music but luckily she had enough time to cough before the first thunder clap ended.
BB
BBCTV2003
she did do a good job.....she sounded very raspy at the beginning.....got worse, coughed and was still quite bad but still managed to read all the headlines and even apologise for it.
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baoren
Shes one amazing woman. It reminds me of a similar incident on a chinese news channel, the presenter was speaking half way thru and her voice got coarse and she coughed badly, then she decided to pause for a while, she stopped and looked down. For almost 20s? About there, I guess she is swallowing her saliva or what, she repeated that line after that.
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Sput
She's my uni's chancellor too! Thus here's an opportunity to post a picture of her in silly clothes...
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40445000/jpg/_40445615_queen_anna220.jpg
The question is whether the man in between them is very small, or Anna and the Queen are very big!

(and no I didn't take it, I'm not that sad - only sad enough to post it)

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