{"id":679,"date":"2015-11-30T15:14:19","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T15:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/?p=679"},"modified":"2022-04-13T16:14:57","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T16:14:57","slug":"richard-wells-french-1967-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/2015\/11\/30\/richard-wells-french-1967-71\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Wells (French 1967-71)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"image pull-left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/323\/2016\/02\/Richard_wells.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-690\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/323\/2016\/02\/Richard_wells-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"Richard Wells\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/323\/2016\/02\/Richard_wells-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/323\/2016\/02\/Richard_wells-506x338.jpg 506w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/323\/2016\/02\/Richard_wells.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p class=\"lead\">Richard Wells is a voice actor.<\/p>\n<p>I have many fond memories of my time at Cardiff University, from playing Pozzo in <em>Waiting for Godot<\/em> at the New Theatre in &#8217;68 to summer boating in Roath Park.<\/p>\n<p>Following my time at Cardiff University, I joined J.Walter Thompson advertising agency in London as a graduate trainee. I worked in Brussels, Singapore and Hong Kong, before ending my advertising career in Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>The switch from advertising to voice acting came\u00a0naturally.\u00a0By that stage, I wasn&#8217;t writing ads anymore and I wanted to do something more creative. I had always loved acting and had started doing voice-overs on ads that I had written.<\/p>\n<p>Having worked in Brussels, I knew that there were several European corporate headquarters based there and there was demand for English audio-visual such as advertisements, corporate videos, and audio guides.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>28 years and more than 11,000 voice jobs later, I think it was the right decision!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the &#8217;90s, I was a freelance announcer and newsreader for BBC World Service radio.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Every time I opened the fader and said, &#8220;Three hours, Greenwich Mean Time. The News. Read by Richard Wells&#8221;, knowing that tens of millions of people were listening around the globe was quite thrilling.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My advice for recent graduates is that your formal education should only be the beginning. Spend your working life doing something you are really good at, don&#8217;t be afraid to change direction and keep on learning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Richard Wells is a voice actor.","protected":false},"author":883,"featured_media":690,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/883"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":718,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions\/718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}