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=== Narration === Baker is a prolific voiceover artist and his voice was voted as the fourth most recognisable in the UK in 2006 after [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|the Queen]], [[Tony Blair]] and [[Margaret Thatcher]].<ref name="Faces of the week">{{cite news |date=3 February 2006 |title=Faces of the week |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4674514.stm |access-date=12 July 2015 |work=BBC News}}</ref> In 1992 and 1993, Baker narrated BBC radio comedy series ''[[Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World]]''. In 1994 he provided the narration for [[Channel 4]]'s ''[[Equinox (TV programme)|Equinox]]'' [[rave]] documentary ''Rave New World''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0887478/|title=Rave New World|date=6 November 1994|access-date=27 December 2016|via=IMDb}}</ref> In 2002 he had a speaking role in the critically acclaimed but commercially unsuccessful ''[[Hostile Waters (game)|Hostile Waters]]'' as the Narrator. Baker voiced both the narrator and the god "Tetsu" in the role-playing game ''[[Sudeki]]'', but was uncredited.<ref>{{cite news |first=Greg|last=Howson|url=https://www.theguardian.com/computergames/story/0,,1290507,00.html|title=Games watch|work=The Guardian|date=26 August 2004|access-date=17 August 2006}}</ref> Baker was also the uncredited narrator for the 1985 science fiction movie "Enemy Mine". During the first three months of 2006, his voice was used by [[BT Group|BT]] for spoken delivery of [[Short message service|text messages]] to landline phones. He recorded 11,593 phrases, containing every sound in the English language, for use by the text-to-speech service.<ref>{{cite press release|publisher=[[BT Group]]|date=27 January 2006|url=http://www.btplc.com/News/Articles/ShowArticle.cfm?ArticleID=a40cfaf2-043b-47a0-8543-bb216333707f|title=Voice of ''Little Britain'' becomes BT's voice of text|access-date=17 August 2006}}</ref> The BT text message service returned from 1 December 2006 until 8 January 2007, with two pence from each text going to the charity [[Shelter (charity)|Shelter]]. Also, a single "sung" by Baker's text voice, "[[You Really Got Me]]" by [[The Kinks]], was released on 18 December 2006 with proceeds going to the charity. The creator of the song was Mark Murphy, designer of the site.<ref>[http://tombakersays.com/ "Tom Baker Says ..."]. Tombakersays.com.</ref><ref>{{cite press release|publisher=[[BT Group]]|date=1 December 2006|url=http://www.btplc.com/News/Articles/Showarticle.cfm?ArticleID=3f6046da-2f3c-42bb-89c2-eb136cd9b222|title=Tom Baker says... "You really got me"|access-date=4 December 2006}}</ref> Baker's voice may be heard at London's [[Natural History Museum, London|Natural History Museum]] narrating commentary to some of the exhibits that demonstrate [[Charles Darwin|Darwin's]] theory of [[natural selection]]. He has made three other brief forays into the world of music: he provides the monologue to the track "Witness to a Murder (Part Two)" on the album ''[[Six (Mansun album)|Six]]'' by [[Mansun]]; he appears on Technocat's single "Only Human" in 1995, and in 2002 he recorded the monologue to the track "Megamorphosis" on the album ''Andabrek'' by Stephen James, although the album was not released until 2009. Baker provides narrative at two British tourist attractions: the [[Nemesis (roller coaster)|Nemesis roller coaster]] at [[Alton Towers]], Staffordshire; and the [[London Dungeon]], a museum depicting gory and macabre events in the capital, narrating the events leading up to and comprising [[the Great Fire of London]]. Baker voiced the character "Max Bear", a series of animated stories broadcast on Channel 4 (UK Terrestrial) from 2000 to 2005. He narrated Australian cartoonist [[Bruce Petty]]'s 2006 film about world politics, ''[[Global Haywire]]''.
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