Best voice
On the way to the store, I turned on KALW, one of the several non-KQED NPR stations in the area, and found that "Thistle & Shamrock" was on. I never listened to the show regularly back when I first heard about it, when I was living in the Philly area; I like the music, but I pretty much never listened to the radio. (These days I listen to it mostly only when driving.) I keep forgetting that it's on around here—even if I had a TiVo-like system for radio, I'd probably have more stuff to listen to than time to listen to it, so I tend to operate in a sort of willful ignorance of the regular times and days of shows I might like.
But I was reminded once again that Fiona Ritchie's may be my favorite voice in the world. I realize this is some sort of Scottish-accent exoticizing fetish, and that it's just as silly as finding any other particular beyond-their-control aspect of a person attractive, but I could listen to her all day. (And possibly not have the slightest idea what she said afterward.) I occasionally consider going to live in Scotland for a while just to listen to the accents all day, but I'd never get anything useful done.
Well, okay, I guess I'd have to say that James Earl Jones has another of my favorite voices, and the two are so different as to be not really comparable, and I'm sure there are other people I'm forgetting, so maybe "favorite voice" is a slight exaggeration. But hers is certainly in my top five favorite voices.
