- Emma Clarke
Emma Clarke (born 1971) is a comedy and drama script writer and an award-winning
voice-over artist , best known as the voice of the automated messages issued in theLondon Underground train network.She has written for
BBC Radio 4 ,BBC television and the theatre, every play or sit-com written for radio being featured on Radio 4's "Pick of the Week".She had contracts to produce customer announcements with London Underground from 1999 to 2007. In 2007 she achieved widespread public attention when, as a result of adding spoof announcements – cleared by London Underground – to her website, she attracted the attention of a "
Mail on Sunday " newspaper reporter who interviewed her and published an article which denigrated her employer. As a result of this, London Underground announced that her contract would not be renewed. [cite news
last = Phillips
first = Rhodri
title = What Emma, outspoken ‘Voice of the Underground’, really thinks of Tube travellers
publisher =Daily Mail
date = 2007-11-24
url = http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=496165&in_page_id=1770] [cite web
last = Clarke
first = Emma
title = What Yesterday Was Like For Me
work = Blog
publisher = Emma Clarke
date =27 November 2007
url = http://www.emmaclarke.com/blogs/2007/november/what-yesterday-was-like-for-me] [ [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2007/11/26/ntube126.xml End of the line for Tube voiceover woman - Telegraph ] ]Her other clients include
Asda ,BBC ,Channel 4 ,Chevrolet ,Chrysalis ,Emap ,Gillette ,Guardian Media Group ,Mercedes Benz ,Revlon andVirgin Along with her solo work, she works through, and is the managing director, of [http://www.justaddvoice.com Just Add Voice] , a company which provides voice-over tracks. [ [http://www.justaddvoice.com/talent/ Just Add Voice - voice talent ] ]
ee also
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Mind the gap References
External links
* [http://www.emmaclarke.com Official site]
* [http://www.justaddvoice.com Just Add Voice]
*cite web
last = Manuel
first = Rob
title = INTERVIEWS: EMMA CLARKE
publisher = b3ta
url = http://www.b3ta.com/interview/emmaclarke/
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