Hi my name's Howie Shannon and I'm making a show for BBC Radio Four all about public address announcements. What got me thinking about these sometimes wonderful and sometimes awful tannoy announcements was a train journey. I heard a truly weird station PA / Tannoy message at a station in the Midlands. The announcer made all the passengers laugh with his surreal way of talking !! I also noticed on board the train tat there are endless public address announcements about buying magazines and chocolates - one passenger joked they were unable to work because of the PA messages! SO I NEED YOUR HELP!! Have you come across any weird station PA announcements (or announcers) around the UK? I need to go to some stations and record them. Or have you got an amazing recording you've already done yourself (maybe on board a train) that I could broadcast? Is there anybody out there who perhaps has an archive collection of train announcements? My e-mail is:
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Thanks so much !!!!