…euch! Still not as bad as the current tendency for all females below a certain age to develop a “vocal-fry” or “crackle-voice” (something to do with wanting to sound like “Kim TartTrashIam” whoever she/it might be!) …but that dreadful squeaky “little-girl”! Ugggghhhhh!
…and I thought that young Mr. Pargetter would have had quite enough “bird-time” by now, and by the way, the word is “moult” (as in Edward Walker Moult (Bill Insley) …to keep it in the Archers theme), and not “melt” (…at least that is what it sounded like to these old ears! (…and yes, I listened again,and again, and again!))
The actor of a totally unconvincing midwife whom everyone panned as having a voice like a thirteen-year-old was chosen two years later to act a person of seventeen.
To me that seems unreasonable, but I am not the casting director (or whatever they have) so what do I know? I just wish that whoever it was would get over its fixation with identical young male voices.
I think this may also be a matter of what they get out of the drama schools, which are no less immune to trends than anywhere else. Given that whenever I look up one of their bios they seem to have come from one of the same few institutions…
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