the dulcet tones of Mr Cumberbatch

[janne_d]

I was randomly flicking channels when an extremely cool shot of a barrel wave from underneath caught my eye so I stopped on BBC4 for South Pacific. And two minutes later I went "hey, I recognise that voice..." for lo, it was the lovely Benedict Cumberbatch narrating. So I watched the whole hour (I probably would have anyway, because the whole thing was gorgeous and interesting, but it certainly helped).

I think the BBC has a secret contract where any actor with a sexy voice is immediately made to do documentary voiceovers. The amount of times I spend an entire programme going "damn, who is that talking?" and it turns out to be Jack Davenport or Mark Strong or, now, Benedict Cumberbatch. I ♥ Auntie Beeb.

Comments

[thisissirius.livejournal.com]

they do it to you on purpose :P

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

They totally do - they suck us in with the sexy voices and before we know it we've been educated about carnivorous caterpillars. IT'S A PLOT.