Best Narrator

[Bazile]

Who in your opinion is/was the best Narrator of a documentary ?

For me it's got to be Laurence Olivier .

His narration of 'The World At War' is simply brilliant

[ToraToraTora]

Richard Burton, superb enunciation.

[ToraToraTora]

Sir Larry was great but he always annoyed my in TWAW with his pronunciation of Ukraine (Ucry-n)

[Peter Pedant]

the only prob was that Stalin was never shtarkeen
was he?

people ignored narzis from churchill

[david small]

Natural World BBC2. Bill Bailey narrating. Terrible in my opinion. Not the voice for the job.

[Bazile]

What's the name of that young black guy that narrates nature programmes ?

I tried googling , without success

[derekpara]

What about Sir Ralph Richardson on The Great War ? Superb.

[Bazile]

I watch a lot of 'Sky Nature ' documentaries

I like watching this guy

I think.he would be a good replacement when Sir David Attenborough decides to retire

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thescottishsun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/2751841/who-is-patrick-aryee-big-beasts-presenter-on-sky-one-and-biologist-who-worked-on-super-senses-and-frozen-planet/amp/

[JimF]

Anyone who isn't Neil Oliver is fine with me...

[Khandro]

Jeremy Irons, I like his voice & am envious of his hair.

[dave50]

Bob danvers-walker

[Hopkirk]

Bill Paterson (Repair Shop, series 1 and 5)

[nero2024]

dave50
in 1955 i had a record played on the "light programme" it was bob danvers walker who read my name and request out
(the record was Doris Day "the windy city" from calamity jane

[goodgoalie]

Bill Paterson must be one of the luckiest actors around. He's made a long and successful career out of always playing 'Bill Paterson': he's the same in everything he's ever been in, can't do accents (unlike, say, David Tennant) and just plays himself with monotonous regularity.
As for his narration - I've got a Scottish accent and can read out loud. Gizza job!

[Captain2]

Barbara Flynn for me; then again, I would say that as I've had a crush on her for over 30 years. Just love her voice, too.

[zebo]

//Richard Burton, superb enunciation.//
The rest of him was supurb too.

Another more recent narrator was a man called David Mc Cullough, he narrated the brilliant Ken Burns series American Civil War.

[Patsy33]

Bill Nighy.

[Ken4155]

Richard Burton was very good. As was David Hemmings, particularly in his narration on Rick Wakeman's 'Journey To The Centre Of The Earth'.

[barry1010]

Dave Lamb is excellent on Come Dine With Me

[Patsy33]

Michael York had a lovely quality to his voice.