About Rebecca Brown

The Voice

When Philip O’Brien was 7 years old he would tag along with his father to the local television station and sit quietly inside the booth while his dad did live voice-overs for the 6 and 10 o’clock news. Some evenings he was lucky enough to follow his father upstairs to the radio station for more of the same. “I would see him do takes,” remembers O’Brien. “He would teach me things — like always know how to pronounce the names of people and places. Always ask, always get …