Regional accents- the last straw.

[Mary Chambers]

I've never heard one speak

Phonetic pronunciation.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Stalking is a criminal offence,I think?

You were stalking me. I was your victim on a course in the early 90s.

[MrGongGong]

Phonetic pronunciation.

With an f?

You were stalking me. I was your victim on a course in the early 90s.

You weren't the teacher who said "But's that's not composition, that's just making collections of sounds you like and arranging them into patterns"
were you?

(To which the answer was something about Debussy)

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

With an f?





You weren't the teacher who said "But's that's not composition, that's just making collections of sounds you like and arranging them into patterns"
were you?

(To which the answer was something about Debussy)

I don't think so, but I remember the music advisor greasing around you.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I don't think so, but I remember the music advisor greasing around you.

Blimey - on the Courses I've been on you were lucky to get lunch.

[gurnemanz]

I've always thought I had no accent - sort of RP with a hint of Croydon. Someone once told me I sounded like Dan Cruickshank the BBC's go-to architecture documentary man. Same age as me.

[P. G. Tipps]

I've always thought I had no accent - sort of RP with a hint of Croydon. Someone once told me I sounded like Dan Cruickshank the BBC's go-to architecture documentary man. Same age as me.

A gorgeous young lady once told me I sounded like Sean Connery ...

She then promptly ruined my tiny moment of glory by then declaring that she thought 'Scotch' accents sounded 'ebsolutely 'orrid'.

[Bryn]

A gorgeous young lady once told me I sounded like Sean Connery ...

She then promptly ruined my tiny moment of glory by then declaring that she thought 'Scotch' accents sounded 'ebsolutely 'orrid'.

I quite agree with her. That Margaret Roberts/Thatcher had truly 'orrible accent, fed by her addiction to Scotch.

[Padraig]

Query.

That ad on television which goes - 'Anybody got a charger - we're dying.'

What accent is that?

I like it.

[muzzer]

These days I’m more offended by the inability to place stresses on the correct syllable than the accent of the speaker. I’m looking at you, Ben Brown of BBC News, and your colleague Lukwesa Burak, possibly the highest-profile offenders, though there are plenty of others.

[Padraig]

Eh?

[LMcD]

For some reason the East Anglian accent causes performers problems. I can still - unfortunately - remember Jane Horrocks in a TV adaptation of Arnold Wesker's 'Roots' which was clearly set in Norfolk, in which she sounded as if she'd just got off the lane from Sydney. Alan Bates couldn't manage it in 'The Go-Between'. The closest anybody came, I think, was 'The Singing Postman', who came from Birmingham.
The other night we watched our DVD of 'Albert Herring' in which - possibly at the suggestion of Peter Hall - the cast adopted a generic 'country folk' manner of speaking which managed to sound vaguely authentic without upsetting any of us simple folk in these parts.

[teamsaint]

These days I’m more offended by the inability to place stresses on the correct syllable than the accent of the speaker. I’m looking at you, Ben Brown of BBC News, and your colleague Lukwesa Burak, possibly the highest-profile offenders, though there are plenty of others.

They obviously haven’t done their RE-search .

[muzzer]

They obviously haven’t done their RE-search .

Indeed, as they often speak as if they are reading something in their second language for the first time.

[gradus]

For some reason the East Anglian accent causes performers problems. I can still - unfortunately - remember Jane Horrocks in a TV adaptation of Arnold Wesker's 'Roots' which was clearly set in Norfolk, in which she sounded as if she'd just got off the lane from Sydney. Alan Bates couldn't manage it in 'The Go-Between'. The closest anybody came, I think, was 'The Singing Postman', who came from Birmingham.
The other night we watched our DVD of 'Albert Herring' in which - possibly at the suggestion of Peter Hall - the cast adopted a generic 'country folk' manner of speaking which managed to sound vaguely authentic without upsetting any of us simple folk in these parts.

True that relatively few actors can manage a Suffolk or Norfolk accent on the rare occasions they are needed. Sir John Mills, as a son of the Eastern Counties, could manage them very well.