Author Archives: Luke Ford

About Luke Ford

I teach Alexander Technique in Beverly Hills (Alexander90210.com).

The Jeremy Irons Show

Jeremy Irons (b. 1948) owns an instantly recognizable voice, a low baritone that he pitches down and slows almost to a drawl. He speaks from the chest. The sound carries weight and a kind of fatigue, as if every sentence … Continue reading

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The Donald Trump Show

Donald Trump (b. 1946) speaks the way a man talks at a bar when he owns the bar. He commands the room through volume, repetition, and confidence rather than through structure or argument. His sentences rarely finish where they start. … Continue reading

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The Richard Spencer Show

Richard B. Spencer (b. 1978) built a voice designed to launder the content. The press kept calling him dapper because that was the whole performance. He spoke in a measured, even register, slightly flat, slow enough to sound deliberate. He … Continue reading

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The Barack Obama Show

Barack Obama (b. 1961) speaks in two registers and slides between them at will. One is the seminar room. He qualifies, he weighs, he sets up the other side’s argument before he answers it. The other is the pulpit. He … Continue reading

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The Megyn Kelly Show

Megyn Kelly (b. 1970) talks like a litigator who never left the courtroom. She trained as a lawyer before television, and the diction shows it. She builds a question the way a prosecutor builds a charge. She lays out the … Continue reading

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The Mark Halperin Show

Mark Halperin (b. 1965) talks like a man who has sat in the room. That is the root of his voice. He carries the authority of access. He knows the operatives, the pollsters, the chiefs of staff, and he lets … Continue reading

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The Peter Jennings Show

Peter Jennings (1938-2005) builds his authority on the suggestion that he has been somewhere you have not. He ran ABC’s Beirut bureau and covered the Middle East for years before he took the anchor chair, back when most American viewers … Continue reading

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The Tom Leykis Show

Where Dennis Prager lowers the temperature, Tom Leykis (b. 1956) raises it. The voice comes loud and fast and built for radio, a big chest tone he learned in his Top 40 disc jockey days, and he uses it to … Continue reading

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The Dennis Prager Show

Dennis Prager (b. 1948) builds his public voice around the pose of the teacher. He talks like a man at the front of a classroom who has all the time in the world. The pace runs slow. He leaves space … Continue reading

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The Michael Jackson Show On KABC Radio

Michael Jackson (1934-2022) had a voice that came out soft, warm, and unmistakably British, a London accent sanded smooth by decades in American studios. That British accent carried across several continents to millions of listeners. He never honked like Cosell … Continue reading

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