Just hearing her dear, familiar voice is a tremendous comfort.
And, my dear, the voice of Perlita is my mother.
If you're careful with it you can suggest so much of a character without recourse to the Dear Reader voice".
Once again my uncle lowers his voice: – Dear boy, I swear, they were there, the helicopters, just metres above our heads.
"I had this image of my daughter saying to me in 20 years' time, 'What did you do in the Internet revolution, Daddy IfIf I had to stand there and say, 'Nothing special, dear.' " His voice trailed off.
But he does have the attraction of being unlikely to shock Cohen, key to the process as head of TV, by questioning the future of The Voice (dear to Cohen's heart, as he paid a reported £22m for it): Linsey is its commissioner.
Even though we have grown and are dear friends, this voice also dwells within me.
Then kindered spirit Matthew Dear performed live, invigorating and intoxicating, and markedly different to the material on his latest album, Backstroke (Spectral), on which Dear adds his voice to a series of addled house-ish pop-grooves ("Grut Wall" and "And In The Night" particularly impress).
Still with new voices, Dear World & Everyone in It: New Poetry in the UK edited by Nathan Hamilton (Bloodaxe) is an excellent anthology of work by 60 young poets, some already very familiar names, some less so.
