mostly david ephgrave

There’s a continuity announcer on BBC1 at the moment that really gets on my tits. His sole purpose is to clearly segue one programme into the next – but he's never let such a small detail hold him back. Each link sounds like he’s emptied a bag of marbles into his mouth just prior to broadcast and is determined to not let any fall out. His voice has the timbre of a man recovering from intense dental work. He becomes more incomprehensible with every passing link – and once you’ve tuned into his strange enunciation it's very hard to tune out. It’s like a one-man mission to deliver each sentence as you’d least expect it. To be fair, other channels often have it much worse. Tune into BBC Three of an evening, for example, and the links are more than likely voiced by someone with suitably yoof credentials, but absolutely no idea of where to put the stresses in any given sentence. It’s as if they just picked someone up off the street, thrust a microphone into their ...