She has narrated the cookery show for 15 years – as well as being the voice of NatWest telephone banking. What’s the secret of her success?

Even if you don’t know what India Fisher looks like, you will recognise her voice. It is there on 15 seasons of MasterChef and 13 seasons of Celebrity MasterChef, where Fisher’s narration – at times arch, at times spry, but always lustrous – turns an assemblage of people burning things and Gregg Wallace saying “cooking doesn’t get tougher than this” into something much greater. “My agent describes it as ‘assured and husky’,” Fisher says. “But who knows?”

It is a remarkable, living thing and has helped Fisher become Britain’s most sought-after voiceover artist. She is the voice of NatWest telephone banking, Channel 5 reality TV show Make or Break? and, among others, advertising campaigns for boiling-water tap Quooker and Always sanitary towels (after the ad aired, viewers complained that it was making them hungry). As a member of the Dead Ringers cast on BBC Radio 4, she has impersonated Kelly Osbourne, Charlotte Church and Sonia from EastEnders. Since 1999, she has played the Doctor’s companion Charlotte Pollard in the Doctor Who audio plays made by Big Finish.

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