WHAT MAKES AN IDEAL radio voice? The golden rule, to borrow from Bernard Shaw, witty chap, is there are no golden rules. Voices are as individual as thumbprints. A distinctive quality that pleases some listeners may irritate others. Some voices make us bristle; others we receive naturally, like an old friend.
Benny Green (below, top), that master of jazz and the popular song, spoke in the unvarnished tones of the Londoner he was, without trying to lay it on, as so many “mockney” characters do today.
Anthony Clare), the psychiatrist who persuaded guests to reveal more about themselves than they might have intended to say, had the pleasing cadences of an educated Irishman; one of the most agreeable sounds to a British ear.
