Highlights
Currently appearing on BBC World Service's The Why Factor, Dinah has presented a huge host of BBC radio and TV programmes along with voiceovers for cultural attractions, audio books, and business presentations. She is a highly experienced, warm, professional broadcaster, used to working on a huge variety of projects to tight deadlines and budgets. Dinah's voice has been described as "silky, expressive and ideal for getting any message across".
Languages
English (British), English, English (Irish)
Accents
British, French, Russian, Australian, U.S, English regional (Lancastrian,West Country)
Ages
Young Adult, Middle Aged, Senior
Special Skills
Documentaries, Audiobooks, Business, Educational, Radio, Telephone, Videogames, Podcasting, Television, Internet
Experience
If you ever listen to the BBC it's quite likely you'll have heard Dinah's voice. With nearly twenty years as a staff producer/presenter/reporter at BBC Radio she is highly experienced at writing and voicing a huge variety of scripts, often to very tight deadlines. She still presents and produces programmes for BBC Radio but now also works in a huge range of voiceover and scripting roles including for cultural institutions such as the Great Lives project at Gloucester Cathedral.
Credentials
Education
Dinah has around twenty years worth of BBC in-house training - including extensive voiceover training, scripting-writing and a huge amount of training on the job - voicing TV documentaries, on-camera reporting and presenting and producing, writing and recording multiple radio documentaries of all different kinds.
Studio
Microphone
selection available.
Computer & Software
macbook pro - pro tools and final cut pro
Special Equipment
stereo microphone, field and binaural recording available
Delivery Methods
MP3, Wav, CD, according to client needs
Turnaround Time
within hours of request. Please get in touch to arrange details.
Service Description
TV documentary presenter
Radio documentary presenter/reporter
Radio commercials
Character voices for spots
Audio books
Video game voices
Voicemail/on hold messages/IVR
Business presentations
Business demonstrations, e-learning, podcasts
Testimonials
BBC
I have worked with Dinah over a period of twenty years, both at the BBC where she was a reporter in Political Documentaries and elsewhere and subsequently as a freelance producer/presenter and would recommend her without qualification.
She expects to work hard and effectively until the job is done- and enjoys that challenge.
Her voice has a calm relaxing clarity to it, perhaps as a result of her musical background.
She is skilled at writing to picture and appreciates the need to marry words and picture to maximum effect. Her scripts are designed to add value to the rest of the material, not to be merely descriptive. For someone with a radio background this can be a problem, but Dinah shows that she is attuned to the way different types of programmes are constructed.
And as someone with a current affairs background, she is well used to adapting and changing material at speed to improve the product.
Anne Tyerman
formerly head of Political Programmes at the BBC
0207 737 2983.
PastPorte
Dinah's voice is sophisticated and confident but still warm and friendly. I have found Dinah to be consistently professional and efficient. Dinah continues to be one of my most reliable and effective voiceover artists, across many different projects.
Ben Blackler, Director, Client Services, PastPorte
Client List
BBC World Service
BBC World Service
BBC Radio 4 and 5Live - documentaries including for radio: Life as an Old New Mum, The New Powers that Be, the MPs Roadshow and many more (please get in touch for a detailed list)
For BBC TV: Scrutiny Films,
Gloucester Cathedral (PastPorte)
Payment Terms
Hire Dinah for voice over work. Payment is made through Voices.com SurePay, an escrow service that guarantees your work is done to your satisfaction. Send payment securely by Visa, Mastercard or PayPal through Voices.com then download your files from the website.
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