And yet women still aren't broadcasting on their own terms: the favoured female broadcast voice today is deep, dark and decidedly un-girly – molasses rather than icing sugar.
David Cameron's broadcast voice has never sounded more pompous or alien – he might as well be talking a dead language.
Mr. Greenman, who had perfected his broadcast voice in a long career in television, did a reading for the service and loved it.
Bakewell and Seaton think the broadcast voice has become more relaxed and colloquial, something Bakewell attributes partly to the influence of immigrant voices in Britain.
The comedian Billy Crystal parodied him, and Meat Loaf used Rizzuto's broadcast voice in his 1978 hit song "Paradise by the Dashboard Light".
So, if you've got the gift of the gab and think yours could be the broadcast voice of the future, we'd love to hear from you.
Charlotte Green, the Radio 4 newsreader often judged best female broadcast voice, sounds so constricted and head girl that I drown her out with the electric toothbrush.
Chris Economaki, whose gravelly broadcast voice and prolific pen — specifically, his manual Royal typewriter — narrated the rise of auto racing from county-fair dirt tracks to a global multibillion-dollar business, died on Friday in a nursing home in Wyckoff, N.J.
Hywel Williams, Plaid Cymru MP for Arfon, said: "While the IFNC concept was never perfect, it was due to provide Wales with an alternative news broadcast voice that would give a Welsh audience news within a distinctly Welsh framework.
He went on to become the longtime broadcast voice of the team, known for his goofy anecdotes and signature exclamation, "Holy Cow!" Nat Rizzuto, too, was known to toss the ball around a bit, although he freely acknowledges that on the sandlot across the street -- just like the big one in the Bronx -- it was his cousin Phil who always stole the show.
