The dulcet tones of Radstock cabbie Ray McKeegan are to become a familiar sound to regular listeners to the early morning BBC Radio 2 Vanessa Feltz show.
Ray, aged 57, is the new 'Voice of the Words' and his cheery jingles will be ringing out from next week announcing the slot on the show.
Ray, who has lived in the town for more than 30 years, is originally from Londonderry and his melodic Irish voice wowed the radio presenter when he responded to an appeal for people with standout voices to apply to the show for a chance to read out on air the word for the day.
The word segment gives listeners a different obscure word each day with Lynn Bowles then giving its meaning.
He sent in an email telling Ms Feltz that he was always told by people in his cab that he had a good voice and in response was asked to read out a sentence.
To his surprise, Ray, a former Bath postman who now drives for V Cars in the city, was selected as a preferred voice and was then voted voice of the week with a live appearance on the show.
His word was "habiliments", an old Middle English word that means the dress or garb associated with an office or occasion.
After being selected as voice of the week Ray travelled to London where he met both presenters and was then asked to make six different jingles which will air from 5am every weekday morning to more than 30 million listeners worldwide.
Ray said: "I spend a lot of my time in the cab and Radio2 is a source of easy listening and entertainment. I am more a news man and like to listen to the news and politics which gives me something to talk to passengers about.
It was a fantastic experience and I appreciate a lot of young presenters on community and hospital radios would have given their right arms for it."
Ray's fame has already spread with a passenger he dropped at Bitton on Friday evening recognising his voice having heard it earlier on the radio that day.
"The guy kept saying he had heard my voice before and then realised he and his wife had been listening to me on the radio that morning."
