The Spirit of Yachting

Back to IMG this week to record narration for episode 2 of Luca Ceccolini's six-part BBC documentary series The Spirit of Yachting, which follows some of the world's most spectacular boats round the grand prix yacht racing circuit. Episode 1, broadcast on August 9th, featured the Giraglia Cup, one of the most renowned offshore races in the Mediterranean. Over two hundred craft raced 243 nautical miles over three days from the chic harbour of Saint-Tropez to Genoa, Italy via the Giraglia, a rocky outcrop off the northern tip of Corsica. Episode 2 features the Rolex Fastnet Race, an altogether grittier affair in the cold offshore waters of southern England, with a record fleet of 356 yachts heading off from Cowes to the Fastnet Rock in the Irish Sea, via the Scilly Isles, and back to Plymouth. Some spectacular footage, well worth catching on BBC World, Sun Oct 11th, 20:30 UK time.

Montblanc presents...

Was pleased to be asked to voice this rather stylish new campaign for upmarket purveyor of pens, watches and other accessories to the upwardly mobile, Montblanc. Nice work from Pablo de Falcon and his team in Berlin, with more spots on view as well at montblanc.com.

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All that glitters...

An unusual request in my experience, this one, but an interesting job. The guys from a company called Bullion by Post got in touch saying they wanted to advertise their gold buying service on TV and needed a voice that sounded upmarket but trustworthy, with some gravitas. Well, that sounded like my kind of thing...

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More Pringles...

The Pringles spots seem to have gone truly viral with people sending in their Ducklips pics from all over the world. Personally, I like Pringles as much as the next fellow but can't quite see the attraction of doing anything other than eating them. But it makes for some amusing spots. Here's another with me giving my wildlife doco spoof another airing...

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Field Candy

This was a fun project to work on. Wacky new tent company Field Candy wanted to put together a crowd-funding campaign and came up with this very entertainingly daft Public Information-style film, to which I very much enjoyed lending an equally daft Pathe News style narration. Those tents look pretty cool, don't they?

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Spooks - The Greater Good

TV trailer for the 2015 movie Spooks The Greater Good, with voiceover by Christopher Kent

Spooks was a huge hit on British TV and internationally so it was only a matter for time before it hit the big screen, and here it is with the show's sharp action, stylish settings and frankly baffling plots all ramped up for the big screen. Hunk of the moment Kit Harrington takes time out from Game of Thrones duty to join classy Brit veteran star Peter Firth from the TV show in Bharat Nalluri's pacy Bourne-meets-Mission Impossible thriller. I was pleased to be asked to add my dulcets to these very slick trailers produced by Intermission Films.

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A Royal Night Out

Movie trailer for the British film A Royal Night Out, with voiceover by Christopher Kent

It's long been hinted that our current Queen, while still a young princess, slipped out of the Palace with her sister Margaret on VE Day in 1945 to mingle among the celebrating crowds in central London. Who knows what really happened, but from that merest wisp of narrative director Julian Jarrold has spun this charming period movie. It covers some of the same territory as the Oscar winning The King's Speech, perhaps hoping to draw the same audience, with Rupert Everett and Emily Watson taking on the roles played by Colin Firth and Helena Bonham Carter in the earlier movie and Sarah Gadon and Bel Powley playing the young princesses. In truth it's an altogether lighter confection, but is nonetheless an enjoyable watch, and it's been fun working with the creative team at Empire Design to put the TV campaign together. Here's one of the spots.

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Pringles Ducklips

Online commercial for Pringles Ducklips documentary spoof, with voiceover by Christopher Kent

I must have been asleep but I seem to be the only person who was unaware of what Pringles Ducklips were. Not any more. The witty Pringles people in Canada have come up with this entertaining viral campaign to get people to post their own Ducklip creations via social media and asked me to voice the spots in a spoof nature documentary style. Always nice to get a chance to release one's inner Attenborough...

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Fox Soccer

Much to the delight of my soccer-mad 14 year old daughter I have recently been working regularly with the good folks at Fox Soccer in LA on voicing promos for their increasingly popular syndicated shows. Soccer may be relatively niche in the US, but LA is home to some of the world's best promo and trailer talent, and they certainly know how to cut a cool promo. Hats off to Fox producer Zac Kenworthy on this one.

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Promo for Fox Soccer's Europa League coverage, produced by Zac Kenworthy with voiceover by Christopher Kent

Game of Thrones

TV promo for Games of Thrones on Sky Atlantic, with voiceover by Christopher Kent

As the new season of hit drama Game of Thrones is about to return to the screen Sky Atlantic asked me to give a bit of oomph to this promo for the catch-up on the story so far. Nice work from producer Tom Pallai at Sky. Just don't ask me to explain the plot.

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The Missing and The Fall

Hit TV series The Missing and The Fall had everyone on the edge of their seats at the end of last year. Was pleased to be asked to voice the TV spots. Well worth seeing again.

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TV spot for DVD of hit TV series The Missing and The Fall, with voiceover by Christopher Kent

Mr. Turner hits the screen

Trailer for Mike Leigh's 2014 film Mr Turner, with voiceover by Christopher Kent

Mike Leigh's new film starring Tim Spall as the artist JMW Turner has been receiving deserved rave reviews and it was a great pleasure to be asked by eOne Films and Empire to voice the TV spots. Here's one of them.

A Most Wanted Man

Voicing completed for trailers on this superb movie, which will be remembered for the late great Philip Seymour Hofmann's final starring role. He is magnificently dishevelled as a washed-up German secret service agent in Anton Corbijn's version of the John Le Carré novel. If it's tempting to see Hoffman's tragic demise prefigured in the distinctly unwell-looking figure onscreen, it's probably safer just to judge it as a brilliant piece of character-painting by one of the best actors of our time. This is one of the TV spots.

Trailer for the movie A Most Wanted Man, with voiceover by Christopher Kent

The Premiere League 2014/15

The Barclays Premiere League 2014/15 kicks off on Saturday 13th August. Pleased to be asked to voice the trailer launch campaign by IMG with this somewhat more poetic approach than your average sports promo. Football/soccer addicts, your wait is over...

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Promo for new Premier League World highlights show from IMG, with voiceover by Christopher Kent

The Two Faces of January

Have just finished voicing the trailer campaign for this classy new British movie from the producers of The Talented Mr Ripley and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (for which I also did the campaign). Viggo Mortensen and Kirsten Dunst are always worth watching and it's good to see more of Oscar Isaac, who was so excellent in the Coen Brothers' recent Inside Llewyn Davis. Here's the 30" spot.

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The Two Faces of January movie trailer with voiceover by Christopher Kent

The quiet ones

Just completing trailer campaign for a terrifying new horror movie called The Quiet Ones from the makers of The Woman in Black (the campaign for which also featured my voice). Even the trailer makes me shudder. See what you think...

New Lexus campaign

Some new radio and TV spots just completed for Lexus RX and LX, aimed at the international luxury car market. Here's one of them...

Hummingbird

Recently completed the trailer campaign for the new Jason Statham movie Hummingbird. Tough guy with a heart is the vibe, with some quite compelling action stuff thrown in. See what you think...

Welcome to the punch

Just completed trailers for hot new action movie Welcome to the Punch, exec produced by Ridley Scott and starring British actors James McAvoy and the superb Mark Strong (excellent recently in movies like Zero Dark Thirty and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy). This one is good fun too:

For pleasure seekers

A chilly January morning with snow on the ground, and here we are at Jungle studios recording new TV spots for Magnum ice cream. Not the perfect match for the weather maybe but by the end we're all dreaming of summer. Shame there are never free samples at these sessions...