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James Bryce in
The Man With The Hoe

Professional acting enquiries, please contact:
James Bryce
c/o PLA Scotland
5 Union Street
Edinburgh
EH1  3LT
Tel:  0131-478-7878
Fax: 0131-478-7070
edinburgh@pla-uk.com
london@pla-uk.com

Musical or writing services, please contact:
James Bryce
50c Huntersfield Road
GOREBRIDGE
EH23  4TT
jb@jamesbryce.org.uk

 



VOCAL WORK BY JAMES BRYCE

SINCE 1982, James Bryce has done over 300 broadcasts for the BBC and other organisations, and indeed had one year with the BBC radio drama company.

He can regularly be heard as a voice for trailers for BBC Scotland.

James is a specialist in voice-overs and talking books, with a huge number of assignments to his name, which also include adverts, corporate videos and training films.  In addition, he regularly teaches radio technique at Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh.

An example of his voice work can be heard here (music and lyrics by James Bryce).


radio broadcasts voice-over etc talking books

— radio broadcasts —
Recent Radio
The Switch BBC Radio 4
Jimmy Murphy makes amends BBC Radio 4
The Switch BBC Radio 3
Catch My Breath BBC Radio 7
Magician's Daughter BBC Radio 4
They Call it Jazz BBC Radio 4 (for which James also wrote a song)
. .


Drama includes...
Macbeth Silver darlings
Oedipus Romeo and Juliet
Rodney Stone The King Must Die
A Man for All Seasons (Roper) Sir Thomas More
Luther (Von Egk) Boris Godunov
The Secret Agent Fueneovejuna
Hamlet (Laertes) Trelawney of the Wells
Keep the Aspidistra Flying Micah Clark
Jekyll and Hyde (Hyde) Cap and Bells (Ciampa)
Les Miserables Secret Sharer (Michaelis)
The Misadventures of John Nicholson Weir of Hermiston
Children of the Dead End The Archers
Waverley Sunset Song
The Leopard Greenvoe (live recorded readings with orch.)
Havisham Daniel Deronda (Grandcourt)
This is available on BBC cassette
Baltasar and Blimunda Adam Bede (15 part series)
Christmas at Dingley Dell (Sam Weller) Carver (James V)
The Gigantic Boar (George III)  

James also appeared (with Jimmy Campbell) in a BBC special on Madeleine Smith, the Glasgow poisoner.   You can hear his voice in a 50-minute retelling of the story at the site dedicated to the life of Madeleine Smith:
www.fix.law-firm.co.uk



Readings for programs include...
Bookshelf Time for Verse
Kaleidoscope Enquire Within
Usual Suspects Traveltime
Poetry of Scotland The Irawaddy Flotilla
The Beast That Can Talk John Muir (6 parts)


Various readings including works by...
Robert Burns Kenneth White
R S Silver George Mackay Brown
Nigel Tranter Desmond Tutu
Seamus Heaney John Banville
James Kelman Alasdair Gray
Louis de Bernieres J G Ballard
Rousseau Ian Rankin


Short Stories include...
The Boatman Markheim
Confessions of a Justified Sinner (10 parts) Rob Roy (10 parts)
The Fanatic (10 parts) The Ghost Riders of Pittenweem
Readings for "Storyteller"  

If you are in the Alloway area, James can be heard daily delivering
Tam O' Shanter in the audio-visual exhibition at the
Tam O'Shanter Centre, near Ayr

 
— voiceover and radio adverts —
Advertising companies include...
The Bridge Alliance McCann Erilson Strathearn
Struthers Morgan Viewplan Mearns & Gill
John Morgan Scot FM AT & T
Faulds Radio Works Lightworks
Waterside Picardy Leith Agency
RED REL Grey
Murricane's Marr's Adpartners


Advertising includes...
Sunday Post Glasgow Herald Kwik-Fit
Scotrail Dewar's Black Bottle whisky
Evening Times Dunfermline Building Society Gleneagles Hotel
Direct Holidays Scottish Provident Scottish Equitable
British Telecom Daily Record Calton Bingo
Scottish Blend Scottish Power Scottish Office
Tennants Jetstream National Cash Registers
Bell Laboratories Total Tunnocks
Scottish Centre for Falconry The Government BP

 
— talking books —
——  Most are available from www.isis-publishing.co.uk
Author Title Label Reference
Campbell Armstrong The Bad Fire Soundings SOUND2512
  The Last Darkness Soundings SOUND2662
  White Rage Soundings SOUND2924
  Butcher Soundings SOUND3452: 13 hrs
Tessa Barclay Farewell Performance Soundings SOUND 2513
Gerald Hammond Dead Weight  Soundings SOUND 2407
Joyce Holms Mr Big Soundings SOUND 2425
  Bitter End Soundings SOUND 2600
  Foreign Body Soundings SOUND
  Thin Ice Soundings SOUND 2994
  Payment Deferred Soundings SOUND 2990 
  Bad Vibes Soundings SOUND 3043
  Hidden Depths Soundings SUND 3216
Quintin Jardine Autographs in the Rain Isis IAB 010811
  Gallery Whispers Isis IAB 020307
  Murmuring the Judges Isis IAB 0111002
  Skinner's Ghost Isis IAB 00112
  Thursday Legends Isis IAB 010412
  Headshot Isis IAB 020702
  Fallen Gods Isis IAB 031002
   Stay of Execution Isis IAB 040901
   Lethal Intent Isis IAB 050911
   Death's Door Isis ICD 071004: 13hrs
   Aftershock Isis .
Peter Kerr Snowball Oranges Soundings SOUND 2470
  Manana Manana Soundings SOUND 2589
  Thistle Soup Soundings SOUND 2771
  Viva Mallorca Soundings SOUND 3046
  A Basketful of Snowflakes Soundings SOUND3314: 10hrs
  Bob Burns investigates -
the Mallorca connection
Soundings .
  Bob Burns investigates -
the Sporran connection
Soundings SCD 359: 9½hrs
  Fiddler on the Make Soundings .
Alanna Knight The Gowrie Conspiracy Soundings SOUND 3207
Bill Knox Blood Proof Isis IAB 971209
  Deadline for a Dream Isis IAB 980308
  Death Bytes Isis IAB 990704
  Death Department Isis IAB 980603
  The CounterFeit Killers Isis IAB 970908
  Deep Fall Isis IAB 001213
  Litle Drops of Blood Isis IAB 000612
  Sanctuary Isle Isis IAB 011111
  The Taste of Proof Isis IAB 020911
  The Man in the Bottle Isis IAB 030106
  Children of the Mist Isis IAB
   The Crossfire Killings Isis  IAB 041002
  A Killing in Antiques .  .
  Penalty Shootout  .
Jack London A Piece of Steak/The Mexican Colophone COL 2002
Peter MacDonald Corners of my Mind Soundings SOUND 3268
Angus McVicar Heather in my Ears Soundings SOUND 1059
  Salt in my Porridge Soundings SOUND 1033
  Rocks in my Scotch Soundings SOUND 1077
Gwen Moffat Quicksand Soundings SOUND 2570
Sally Rena Sea Road West Soundings SOUND
James Robertson Scottish Ghost Stories Soundings SOUND 1591
Ian Campbell Thomson The Hired Lad Soundings SOUND 2823
Nigel Tranter Tinker's Pride Novelsound ISBN 18998410803
Peter Turnbull The Man With No Face Soundings SOUND 1785
Roderick Wilkinson Memories of Maryhill Isis IAB 001012
Mary Withall The Poppy Orchard Soundings SOUND 1754
  The Flight of the Cormorants Soundings SOUND 2463
Glover Wright Blood Enemies Soundings SOUND 976
Scotland talking series The Massacre of Glencoe Scotland Talking ST1
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