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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

The Voice at Embankment Station

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

The voice announcement at Embankment Station in London is unlike any other announcement on the Tube.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi everyone, for those of you, no, that's dumb. I'm going to start over.

0:26.6

This is Rachel, she's a junior in college, and she's with her big sister Gina.

0:33.6

Gina just rolled her eyes at me for anyone wondering.

0:41.6

Thank you for opening the door.

0:44.6

Just a little bit of background. I am setting a broad in London. I am a physically disabled

0:50.6

person, so I use a wheelchair most of the time, and just kind of get stuck in places a lot.

0:57.6

So Gina is here helping me out for a few months. It's been really fun.

1:02.6

A couple of months ago, I called Rachel and Gina up, and actually I wish I'd made a recording of that phone call,

1:09.6

because it was incredibly chaotic. My cousins are the best.

1:15.6

Rachel is a journalism student, and I thought that she and Gina might be up for a little assignment,

1:20.6

to descend into the London Underground.

1:23.6

To this specific tube station called embankment.

1:28.6

But I forgot the words I was going to say.

1:31.6

Do you want me to jump in?

1:33.6

Yeah.

1:34.6

So...

1:35.6

Actually, I am going to jump in here. Truly classic behavior from all three of us cousins.

1:42.6

A few months ago, Rachel heard a story about an elderly woman who used to visit embankment station every day.

1:49.6

Sometimes she'd just sit on a bench for a while and then leave.

1:53.6

Until one day, she asked a station attendant what had happened to the voice reading the announcement.

1:59.6

You know, were they say, mind the gap?

2:02.6

They told her it had been re-recorded by a new voice.

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