Radio and Online Audio Production
Since 2012, Mike has been the science and technology reporter for WORLD Radio, a daily news podcast produced by WORLD Newsgroup. He researches the stories, interviews subject matter experts, writes the copy and records and produces the completed story for the podcast producers. His technical engineering expertise and his smooth, authoritative delivery make for compelling listening!
Mike is on the voice over talent roster for a production company providing intros and outros for church radio ministries. Here’s a sample of a sermon series introduction.
Mike records audio books for Relearn, an online resource for Christian audio books and other resources.
Book Narration
As a performer, Mike has a breadth of ability delivering spoken-word narration of both fiction and non-fiction. He has a natural ear for accents (British English, German, French, Italian) and delivers crisp, engaging dialog when narrating fiction. Non-fiction copy comes alive with his warm narrative style.
Nothing in Syene Harper’s past prepares her for what is C O M I N G.
She is a typical college student, with a few good friends on campus and a loving single mother, lively little sister, and devoted dog waiting for her back home once she finishes her final exams. Waking to a good luck text from her mom and a cryptic update from her friend Amy about her previous night’s adventures, Syene’s last day of the semester starts out uneventfully.
The next text reads C O M I N G. Is this an invitation or a joke? A warning? Who on earth has a four-digit phone number?
Syene seeks refuge in her summer routine of family and church. But her sense of well-being continues to unravel. The greatest comfort for Sy and her family is a newcomer, introduced as Farrel Kelly, a young theologian from England on a work-study program.
Unexpectedly, Farrel reveals the answers to Syene’s questions. Syene has been called to become the Sacred. The unease she feels is more than mere discomfort—it is danger. Just as Farrel is dedicated to venerate and protect her, others, made of pure evil, fear her sanctified purpose and seek mankind’s destruction.
A warrior arrives.
A dark angel is tortured by past mistakes and decisions.
A young woman is asked to believe the unbelievable.
Syene is about to become the Sacred.
Pushing Limits: Memoir of a Maverick from Soldier to Scholar recounts the unique odyssey of a research mathematician who overcame military hurdles at West Point, Army Ranger School and the Vietnam War, and survived many civilian escapades—hitchhiking in Idi Amin's Uganda, fending off sharks in Bahamian reefs, and exploring deep behind the Iron Curtain in a Volkswagen camper.
From ultra-conservative West Point in the 1960s to ultra-radical Berkeley in the '70s, then to genteel Georgia Tech in the '80s, this is the tale of an academic career as noteworthy for its offbeat adventures as for its teaching and research accomplishments. It brings to life the struggles and risks underlying mathematical research, the unparalleled thrill of making scientific breakthroughs, and the joy of sharing those discoveries around the world.
Hill's book is packed with energy, humor, and suspense, both physical and intellectual. Anyone who is curious about how a maverick mathematician thinks, who wants to relive the zanier side of the '60s and '70s, who wants an armchair journey into the third world, or who seeks an unconventional view of some of society's iconic institutions, will be drawn to this book.
Michael F. Cochrane is the able narrator for Hunt for Evil. This marks the first time I’ve ever listened to any of his works. His voice is clear, strong and easy to understand. He does a good job assigning a unique voice to each character. Almost all of his voices sounded realistic to me with a few exceptions. Furthermore, he consistently differentiated between the various personalities. To my American ears, he aced the multiple accents herein, including British, German, Scandinavian and American. The end product is polished and professional.
- Audible review, December 31, 2017
I enjoyed the narrator. I hadn’t listened to anything of his before. He handles the accents admirably. I liked his Scandinavian accent a lot. It took me back to my great aunts and uncles. He does American, British and German in this story as well. There is one voice I swear sounded just like GEICO, the lizard from the insurance company. She was the Director of Administration for ICE. He had me snickering. She was something of a lizard in personality, too!
- Audible review, October 20, 2017
This is a hot story and it is filled with adventure and excitement. Amy knows how to keep you wanting more. The writing was so smooth and flowed beautifully. Great narrator.
- Audible review, November 17, 2017
The audiobook follows an "active shooter" as he progresses toward his crime and dispels the myth that these incidents are random acts of violence committed without warning by otherwise normal individuals. In a parallel account, Warnings Unheeded tells the story of a veteran pilot who was known for exceeding the maneuvering limits of his B-52 bomber. His reckless flying not only endangered the lives of his crew, but also the air show spectators who gathered to watch him perform. When attempts to ground the pilot were unsuccessful, several aviators refused to fly with him and "predicted the worst air show disaster in history."
"The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," by C.S. Lewis, MacMillan Publishing Co.
"Extreme Measures," by Vince Flynn, Simon & Schuster, publishers.
"Outliers," by Malcolm Gladwell, Little, Brown, publishers.
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