I put my own voice on my new GPS… which is a bit weird. Strange having myself tell myself where to get off.. as such.. And I didn’t even do any impersonation or grand dramatic expression or anything… just used my own normal voice. Yawntastic, in fairness…

The voice I REALLY want on it though is Peter Dickson – aka Voiceover Man (he of X Factor, Britain’s Got Talent, etc. etc. fame) – his particular dramatic “ooomph!” would certainly make car journeys that bit more exciting and appealing! Here he is… just generally being awesome…

4fm is one of Ireland’s newest (and already one of Ireland’s best) radio stations. It has a multi-city license broadcasting to Cork, Dublin, Limerick and Galway cities – and, for some reason, to all of County Clare. Aimed at an older (>35) audience, they play more easy-listening and less pop/chart tracks… plus they have the excellent Peter Dickson (the voice of ‘E4′ in the UK, also known as “Voiceover Man”) providing their idents, and that lovely fellah Brian McColl presenting a very entertaining show Monday to Friday, 2 to 5pm.

Part of Brian’s show – the whole middle part, in fact – is the “Oldies Hour”, where listeners get to email in their list of favourite oldies (anything up to the early/mid-eighties) and the playlist for that whole hour is chosen from their list. I sent Brian a list of 27 songs a few weeks ago, before I went on holidays, and he held out on featuring them until I came back… until today, in fact!

Here’s a clip of the intro to the hour with a little bit of ‘banter’ between Brian and Peter Dickson:

And here’s the list of songs played: