other voice work on radio?

Question:As a recently retired College Principal of 58 (male) I would like to discover if it is possible for me to audition for reading and other voice work on the radio. How might one approach this in the first instance please?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: As a recently retired College Principal of 58 (male) I would like to discover if it is possible for me to audition for reading and other voice work on the radio. How might one approach this in the first instance please?

The best thing to do is find someone you know or look in the Contacts book (I'm not sure of the US version of this) who can record your voice for you in a studio and edit it.

A friend of mine who does this for a living and is very succesful at it, when starting out, wrote some fake voice-over stuff, including some adverts, and recorded them. He then sent the tape to a variety of specialist voice-over agents (a normal acting agent is OK, but a specialist voice-over agent is of course better) and he got an audition with them.

Try to make the scripts feature a variety of accents. Also read a dramatic passage from a book, that sort of thing.

Then look for voice-over agents and send them the tapes.

Good luck!

you need to get an agent.....

Well, sir, it depends on what station you would want to do. What I would do is to do one of these three things. Either
a) all the station, and ask the question your asking us,
b) go to the radio station and do the same thing
c) go to the station's web site.
Well that's just what I would do, well have fun and good luck!