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In article <3b0c1c56-8385-438e-a2fd-be9f4f879384@googlegroups.com>,
Robert Carnegie  <rja.carnegie@excite.com> wrote:
>On Saturday, 23 April 2016 01:56:40 UTC+1, peterw...@hotmail.com  wrote:
>> The human voice can be enjoyable to listen to in and of itself, regardless 
>> of what it's saying. A phrase that people sometimes use to describe a person
>> such a voice is "I'd listen to them read the phone book." For me, one such
>> person is Fiona Ritchie, creator and host of _Thistle and Shamrock_, a one
>> hour long radio program syndicated around the world that, as the name implies,
>> features Irish and Scottish music (although they did at least one show on
>> Viking music). I listen to the program for the music, but I am glad to hear
>> whatever Ms. Ritchie cares to say about the featured artists, the Celtic 
>> music scene, or anything else.
>> 
>> I would be interested to hear of any other favorite voices.
>> 
>> Thank you in advance for any replies.
>> 
>> Peter Wezeman
>> anti-social Darwinist
>
>The many voices of the late Kenneth Williams.  I think he speaks -
>ans sings - as _Barbarella_'s spaceship computer, but I haven't
>verified this.  It should be in his diary, a fairly brief job...
>
>If I'd carefully read my TV guide last week - the BBC magazine 
>archaically called _Radio Times_, which function it does still 
>provide - it wouldn't have come as an immediate surprise when 
>a /possibly/ dumbed-down documentary on the possibility of 
>extraterrestrial life - I recorded it for later, but the title 
>is _Aliens: The Big Think_ - was introduced by the current 
>"Doctor Who", who of course is from the planet Gallifrey in 
>the constellation of Kasterborous (or was; I gather they moved it.  
>/He/ moved it.)
>
>Anyway, the Doctor's voice, all of them, somehow causes me to
>feel that everything will be all right, despite copious evidence
>that any time that he's around it very much isn't.

Oh yes, Capaldi's voice has some very nice undertones.  Plus
Scottish.

-- 
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com

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Reading the Phone Book peterwezeman@hotmail.com - 2016-04-22 17:56 -0700
  Re: Reading the Phone Book Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-04-22 18:46 -0700
    Re: Reading the Phone Book Cryptoengineer <treifamily@gmail.com> - 2016-04-22 21:56 -0500
  Re: Reading the Phone Book "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2016-04-22 22:25 -0400
  Re: Reading the Phone Book Joe Bernstein <joe@sfbooks.com> - 2016-04-22 20:45 -0700
    Re: Reading the Phone Book Cryptoengineer <treifamily@gmail.com> - 2016-04-22 23:49 -0500
      Re: Reading the Phone Book Cryptoengineer <treifamily@gmail.com> - 2016-04-22 23:50 -0500
    Re: Reading the Phone Book "Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)" <seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com> - 2016-04-23 10:08 -0400
      Re: Reading the Phone Book djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-04-23 16:54 +0000
    Re: Reading the Phone Book 103134.3516@compuserve.com - 2016-04-25 10:04 -0700
  Re: Reading the Phone Book David Mitchell <david.robot.mitchell@gmail.com> - 2016-04-23 05:59 +0100
  Re: Reading the Phone Book Chrysi Cat <chrysicat@gmail.com> - 2016-04-23 21:52 -0600
    Re: Reading the Phone Book Cryptoengineer <treifamily@gmail.com> - 2016-04-23 22:58 -0500
      Re: Reading the Phone Book djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-04-24 13:14 +0000
  Re: Reading the Phone Book Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-04-24 18:41 -0700
    Re: Reading the Phone Book djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-04-25 05:49 +0000
    Re: Reading the Phone Book Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-04-25 14:25 -0700
      Re: Reading the Phone Book djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-04-26 13:43 +0000
        Re: Reading the Phone Book Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2016-04-26 08:36 -0700
  Re: Reading the Phone Book Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2016-04-25 01:22 -0600
  Re: Reading the Phone Book lal_truckee <lal_truckee@yahoo.com> - 2016-04-25 07:55 -0700
  Re: Reading the Phone Book Wayne Brown <fwbrown@bellsouth.net> - 2016-04-25 16:46 +0000
    Re: Reading the Phone Book Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-04-25 14:45 -0700

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