[HPFGU-Movie] extras narrator?

[GulPlum]

At 02:37 07/06/03 , jillily3g wrote:
>Last night I was watching "Faking It" on BBCAmerica and the voice of
>the narrator seemed familiar. Fortunately, the credits ran slow
>enough that I could catch his name: Michael Kitchen. It took me a
>while, but I realized he reminded me of the narrator from the extras
>on the first DVD. I can't seem to confirm this, so I wondered if
>anyone else knew who the narrator is?

*boggle*. I can't really see how it's possible to confuse them.

The narrator on the first DVD's menu and extras is the same as the second, 
and indeed he also reads the US versions of the HP audiobooks:  Jim Dale. 
Dale has lived in California for a heck of a long time and has developed 
what we like to call "mid-Atlantic" speech patterns (i.e. neither 
identifiably British nor American). Kitchen's natural speech patterns 
(which he uses on "Faking It") are pure Received Pronunciation British. And 
there's nothing in the timbre of their voices which I'd consider to be 
similar, either.

--
GulPlum AKA Richard, who's wondering what Faking It is doing on a BBC 
channel considering it's not a BBC production (it's shown on Channel Four 
in the UK.)