Hot on the heals of his debut as the voice of BT’s text service Tom Baker has been voted the owner of the nation’s favourite male voice.
BBC owned listings magazine Radio Times asked visitors to their website radiotimes.com to look at a list of 50 distinctive voices in TV and radio and vote for the famous voices they would most like to have.
The other finalists were:
Male
1. Tom Baker
2. Stephen Fry
3. David Attenborough
4. Des Lynam
5. James Nesbitt
Female:
1. Joanna Lumley
2. Mariella Frostrup
3. Davina McCall
4. Fiona Bruce
5. Kirsty Young
The poll was conducted to tie-in with a two-part Radio 4 documentary, A Voice Like Honey.