How do we care for our voices?
What's Up Docs?
BBC
4.4 • 659 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to What’s Up Docs?, the podcast where doctors and identical twins Chris and Xand van Tulleken tune in to the ideas shaping our health and wellbeing.
In this episode, they turn their attention to the voice. Where does it come from, why do we all sound so different, and how much can we really change it? They also explore what we should be doing to take care of our voices.
To help them strike the right note, they’re joined by voice specialist and speech and language therapist, Lydia Hart.
If you want to get in touch, you can email us at whatsupdocs@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp us on 08000 665 123.
Presenters: Drs Chris and Xand van Tulleken Guest: Lydia Hart Producer: Maia Miller-Lewis Executive Producer: Rami Tzabar Editor: Jo Rowntree Researcher: Grace Revill Tech Lead: Reuben Huxtable Social Media: Leon Gower Digital Lead: Richard Berry Composer: Phoebe McFarlane Sound Design: Ruth Rainey
At the BBC: Assistant Commissioner: Greg Smith Commissioning Editor: Rhian Roberts
A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 4
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Shall we get cracking? |
| 0:08.7 | You've got a BBC podcast coming up. |
| 0:10.8 | These were immensely popular. |
| 0:13.0 | But if you also like looking back, |
| 0:14.7 | then the BBC has loads of history podcasts to offer. |
| 0:17.6 | Proof that being a historian is a very exciting job. |
| 0:19.7 | Covering everything. |
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| 0:21.7 | It was the year 1666. |
| 0:23.8 | Two personal stories. |
| 0:25.0 | It was an anxiety that people felt even in the ancient world. |
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| 0:30.4 | free people making a free choice about what they wanted. |
| 0:34.3 | Search history on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:38.8 | Zand... |
| 0:39.2 | Meo-wop. |
| 0:43.2 | Zand is... |
| 0:43.9 | Meo. |
| 0:46.1 | Zan's doing his vocal warm-up. |
| 0:47.9 | We're about to start recording. |
| 0:49.8 | I'm Dr. Chris. |
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