The King's Speech - film

Chatting with Colin Firth BSA's Chief Executive Norbert Lieckfeldt spoke with Colin Firth who plays King George VI.	The King's voice Neil Swain, the voice coach who helped Colin Firth portray George VI's stammer, talks about working on the film.
Spotlight on stammering Many BSA members approached the media and cinemas to raise awareness of stammering around The King's Speech. Also: Permission to discuss stammering and BSA comments on The King's Speech	Remembering Lionel Logue BSA member Richard Oerton recalls his own experiences with King George VI's speech therapist.
Join BSA Become a part of BSA, and receive our quarterly Speaking Out magazine and newsletter.	More: YouTube video: 'a stammerer's view' Finding our voice - talk by BSA trustee John Evans 'The King's Speech' - review of book (pictured) The times of King George VI - recollections of living with a stammer at the time View from Toronto - North American premiere of the film
Media links on the film Articles The King's Speech must win for proving a stammer is nothing to be ashamed of - Daily Mail article by BSA Patron Ed Balls MP (27/2/11) 'The King's Speech' Sounds Like My Speech: How I Learned to Live With a Stutter - by entertainment journalist Leah Sydney (22/2/11) Lost for words - in Prospect by BSA Patron David Mitchell, on the film, and fallacies about stammering (23/2/11). Stammer can make you stutter in life from The Star, Sheffield, with Vic and John Bowden (3/2/11). Listen to the lessons of The King's Speech - in Nature, by Professor Peter Howell (2/2/11). Don't be stopped by a stammer - from the Northampton Chronicle, with Ashaur Rahman (25/1/11). Right royal row over 'shameful' stammer joke (20/1/11) from Cambridge News. Speech therapist shares personal experience of stammering, Daniel Hunter in Rochdale News (18/1/11) The King's Speech means stammerers understood, Guardian (17/1/11) The King's speech: review, on localsecrets.com by BSA trustee Rob Coe (17/1/11) Kent News (15/1/11) and Ashford Extra (14/1) featuring Nigel Wilson Speaking the King's English, News and Star (North Cumbria) with Mark Renwick-Smith. 13/1/11 My name is Jackie Bird, newsreader and lifelong stammerer (13/1/11), Daily Record Why David understands The King's Speech, Nottingham Post (12/1/11), with David Preece. Also Speaking Out article by David. Ray Connolly in the Daily Mail (10/1/11) The King's Speech brings hope to Birmingham stutterers (10/1/11), Birmingham Mail Stammering: lost for words (link to guardian.co.uk) (9/1/11) BSA trustee Rob Coe on BBC Cambridgeshire website (7/1/11) BSA trustee Colin Marsh in the Leicester Mercury (6/1/11) Philip French: my life as a stammerer - by the film critic (26/12/10) Radio and TV The King's Speech revealed (4th May) - Channel 5 documentary with Mark Logue (grandson of Lionel Logue), including conversations with Geoffrey Rush and David Seidler. RPH Adelaide (April 2011, mp3 file), with Lisette Wesseling who is blind and also stammers. BBC Manchester (16/3/11) - Daniel Hunter, an SLT who stammers, talks his stammer, speech therapy, and The King's Speech. Starts at 1:09:48. You and Yours on dating and job interviews with a stammer, March 11th & 18th. 5 live Breakfast (28/2/11) - BSA Chair Leys Geddes following the previous night's Oscars, including clip from David Seidler's acceptance speech. Starts 1hr 40min in. Broadcasting House (Radio 4) - experiences with Lionel Logue (on original "King's Speech" microphone), plus the Hove school interview below. Starts 17:50 mins in. (27/2/11) The King's Speech inspires two pupils living with a stammer (BBC) - two pupils from a Hove school interview each other about their stammer in front of the class "Why The King's Speech is a 'Godsend' for stammerers" with Harry Dhillon, BSA member and President of the Trojan Speakers Club (24/2/11) Radio 4, You and Yours (21/1/11) - Ashley Morrison talks about stammering, including costal breathing and electronic devices. Also Speaking Out article by Ashley, including link to his blog. Podcast: Doncaster radio (mp3 file, 21 minutes) - Bob Adams and Jamie Harwood on SineFM radio. January 2011. Also articles by Bob and Jamie. BBC Breakfast programme (link to YouTube) 10/1/11 - with BSA Chair Leys Geddes. Today Programme (8/1/11) with BSA Trustee Dr Trudy Stewart STV News at Six, Glasgow and West (7/1/11), with BSA Scotland's Martin Brough, and Liam McGowan. From 11:57. Anglia Tonight (6/1/11) - TV clip about the film includes BSA trustee Rob Coe.

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