Showing posts with label radio interview. Show all posts
Showing posts with label radio interview. Show all posts

Tuesday, 2 June 2015

Want to hear me speak in Finnish?



I was asked some time ago to do an interview for the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at University College London. Afterwards, I promptly forgot about it, until today when I came across the email exchange about the Language Trail project.

I don't usually like listening to myself (and here I go on a bit), because I sound like a high-pitched girl rather than a grown-up woman. So I was surprised how deep my voice seemed here. Perhaps it's the language - Finnish is spoken a few octaves lower than English? Or perhaps this is just another sign of old age. (Probably the latter. Oh my).

Whatever the case, here is the whole interview, where I talk in Finnish about my work at Finn-Guild, about how I came to be in England, and about my novel, The Englishman.

Saturday, 18 December 2010

My radio voice

In case you ever wondered what I sound like, here's a short excerpt from a US radio station. I'm talking about Sofi Oksanen's award-winning book, Purge. I reviewed it more fully on my other site here. Hope you enjoy this short snipped of Helena on air.


The whole radio broadcast of PRI's The World is here.