The Narrator Counts

I was delighted to read Howard Rosenberg’s column on narrators highlighting Will Lyman (“Sometimes, It’s All in the Voice,” Aug. 31). He is so good that I will watch a show he is narrating, regardless of what it is about, just to hear him. I think he is to our times what Alexander Scourby was to earlier times.

What Rosenberg said about what the narrator adds reminded me of watching a program on Peru’s Machu Picchu. It was narrated by Kathleen Turner and was not too interesting.

Then I saw one on the same subject narrated by Leonard Nimoy that was much more involving. How surprised I was to find later it was the same documentary--same script--just a different narrator. Leonard Nimoy made all the difference!

WILLIAM BERGFELDT

Hollywood