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Listening to a lot more radio, and struck by the number of vaguely Geordie accents out there.
Got me thinking, how many East Anglian voices are there in the national media, including sports media? Chris Sutton I'd count as national, Terry Butcher perhaps. Even people like Steve Lamacq and Tom Ravenscroft to my mind don't have full-on' East Anglian accents. (I remember watching 'Twenty Twelve', the Olympics-build-up comedy and thinking that the guy in charge of traffic was almost the first person I'd seen on tv talk properly since John Bond! )
East Anglian accents don't feature at all heavily in the media. I suspect that they are highly unrepresented, partly because all the BBC money is funelled into London, Salford, Wales and Scotland.
Even when there is a drama set in East Anglia, local accents are usually delivered as West Country, for some reason otherwise decent actors can't get their heads round our accents.
The only East Anglian accent that I can recall for a presenter of anything on TV was the Reverend Lionel Fanthorpe, who was from Dereham and presented a few things back in the late 90s and early noughties, most notably Fortean TV
East Anglian accents don't feature at all heavily in the media. I suspect that they are highly unrepresented, partly because all the BBC money is funelled into London, Salford, Wales and Scotland.
Even when there is a drama set in East Anglia, local accents are usually delivered as West Country, for some reason otherwise decent actors can't get their heads round our accents.
The only East Anglian accent that I can recall for a presenter of anything on TV was the Reverend Lionel Fanthorpe, who was from Dereham and presented a few things back in the late 90s and early noughties, most notably Fortean TV
John Thaw in Goodnight Mr Tom did a more fairly decent Suffolk accent
If any posters are from Beccles and know the Bryant family I am convinced John Thaw based how he played that on old Sam. (tho I doubt anyone will know who I mean there)