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National Pelmet - voice of race announcer

posted 19 years ago by Postdog
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OK, this is a long shot. I've just watched the above episode, having recorded it from Men & Motors Sunday night. It was the episode where Arthur tried to get rid of some pottery figures, and Terry had to mind a horse which raced at a point to point.

The voiceover of the race announcer sounded very familiar but I cannot put a name to it. It's not listed in the credits, so has anyone who may have seen this episode have any idea who it was?

You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!!

[–] maaaaart 17 years ago

I suspect the member who posted
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbsQdQKL6Ws
could tell you.

[–] JULIANBRAY 17 years ago

I think it was Peter O'Sullivan. I was involved in that episode. We had a number of amazing upsets - The 'real' Police descended on the Stables location as someone had reported a dead man being transported at high speed on the motorway in a car boot the boot lid being propped open - in reality the dead man was the sound recordist as they could not get him inside the car for the tracking shots and the budget was so clipped that low loader car platforms were rarely used. A shot on brighton shingle beach with the camera mount on the front of a land rover caused some amusement as the landrover slowly rolled sideways in the shingle and leaning at a 55 degree angle. Someone ( yep guilty ] forgot to manually engage the free wheeling four wheel drive hubs, so when the four wheel drive was hit only two engaged....the crew jumped off leaving me in the driving seat - luckily i remembered it at the last minute.
Brilliant cast and crew, with dennis and george constantly adding sight gags and changing the script...happy days never to be seen again truly part of the golden gae of Tv and not a celebrity chef in sight

JULIAN BRAY LONDON UK
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[–] oneofyourown 15 years ago

I'm pretty sure it was Graham Goode - Channel 4 racing commentator.