I am a speaker and a speech artist.

I am a native speaker of British English and have worked for many years as a teacher, teacher trainer and researcher in the field of education. I have used my voice 'live' to communicate my message to individuals, to classes, to seminars and to conferences. I have also recorded voice-overs for industrial training films and tourist commercials as well as recording listening comprehension material for school textbooks and national examinations.

• Below are links to some poems I have read forLibrivox.
• "Swedish Byways", an article on my Text page, is now also available to hear streamed or to download.
• Some of my blog entries in my Commonplace Book have associated voice recordings. Look here.
• And here's a review of the National Theatre's first direct-feed Internet broadcast of a live stage performance (of Phèdre with Helen Mirren in the title role). Text and voice recording.

Librivox Short Poetry Collection number 79
My contributions:
"May" by Helen Hunt Jackson MP3 Text
"The Sun Rising" by John Donne MP3 Text
For the whole collection or to download more compressed versions of the recordings, click on the title above.

Librivox Short Poetry Collection number 78
My contributions:
"To be a Pilgrim" by John Bunyan MP3 Text
"Vicar of Bray" by Anon MP3 Text
For the whole collection or to download more compressed versions of the recordings, click on the title above.

Librivox Short Poetry Collection number 77
My contributions:
"Loss of Memory" by Walter Savage Landor MP3 Text
"To Youth" by Walter Savage Landor MP3 Text
For the whole collection or to download more compressed versions of the recordings, click on the title above.

Librivox Short Poetry Collection number 76
My contributions:
"A Description of a City Shower" by Jonathan Swift MP3 (4.1MB) Text
"Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling MP3 (3.4MB) Text
For the whole collection or to download more compressed versions of the recordings, click on the title above.