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Michael has been recording since l960 when, first
as a student and later as a professional actor, he played roles in nine of the
British Council/Argo Records Shakespeare productions, directed by George Rylands. |

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The hundreds of recordings he has made since
include: Thomas Gray’s ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD, which sold two
thousand records from a single outlet; several plays for BBC Radio; a spell as
a member of the English by Radio group on the BBC World Service; numerous
Ivan Berg cassettes, Times cassettes plus language cassettes & CDs for Canning
School of English.
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Television
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Voice-Overs include:
WIN, LOSE OR DRAW (ITV) -
more than 300 programmes introducing the celebrities
TRANSWORLD SPORT (ITV, Sky &
BBC TV) - numerous
editions
TIMEWATCH (BBC TV) -
numerous editions
HITLER’S GENERALS (Discovery)
WAR OF THE CENTURY (BBC TV)
FAERIES (ITV)
WORLD WAR TWO IN COLOUR (ITV)
BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC and PG WODEHOUSE: THE LONG EXILE
(Paladin for BBC TV)
THE NAZIS: A WARNING FROM HISTORY - all episodes
AUSCHWITZ, THE NAZIS AND THE FINAL SOLUTION, (BBC History Unit)
- all episodes
INSIDE THE NAZI STATE (BBC TV)
INSIDE THE KREMLIN (BBC TV)
ILLUMINATIONS: JOHN CONSTABLE
(Artsworld & on
DVD)
WORLD WAR II BEHIND CLOSED DOORS (BBC TV) - all episodes
Doctor Who (BBC TV)
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Corporates |
Work
includes: MFI, British Telecom, Royal
Mail, Terrence Higgins Trust, Thomson Holidays. Corporate
CDs and
CD-ROMs
include Armoured Vehicles, English Heritage, Audi cars, Jaguar, Motorola,
Asylum, MMR, etc.
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Exhibitions |
Work
includes: Pendennis Castle, Cutty Sark
Whisky Emporium, Beaulieu Motor Museum, National Maritime Museum, Dover Cliff,
Tower of London, Constable at the Tate, etc.
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Radio
commercials |
Work
includes: X-CEL FM, Scott’s China
Shop, Nestle’s Cook-in-pot, Central Office of Information Anti-Drink/Drive
Campaign, Toys R Us, Derbyshire Building Society, Anchor Cheese, National Lottery, Transport for London, Cadbury’s Dairy Milk, Vodafone, The Times,
Birmingham Mail, Central Office of Information Disability Act Campaign, Norwich
Union, Thomson’s Holidays, Sunday Times, Da Vinci Code Rough Guide, Specsavers,
Mercedes, and HM Revenue & Customs (2010).
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TV commercials |
Voice-Overs for Central Office
of Information on Pensions, Ross Oven Fries, Alliance & Leicester, KwikSave,
Cadbury’s Toppers, etc.
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promotional |
Narration for two films for British
Nuclear Fuels, for several episodes of BBC TV Euro series, for Fenland District
Council’s A NEW VISION FOR AN ANCIENT PORT
and FENLAND, SPACE TO PROSPER
videos, etc ...
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Computer games |
Work
includes:
Wings of Destiny and City of Lost Children for Psygnosis,
The Curse, and most
recently Mr Monopoly on the Monopoly
interactive game, plus Divinity 2
and Harry Potter.
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Many recordings of poetry for the Inner London
Education Authority, and for Bristol University. Plus:
Teaching English for Huber
Publishers and English language recordings for Macmillan.
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Numerous audio-cassettes for Winthrop
Pharmaceutical.
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