This segment is bizarre in that after the announcement, they present a
group of emails from listeners talking about their regional accents,
but they read them aloud using their own assortment of accents, which
don't match at all.
Dan
On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Dave Sayers <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Every day next week on BBC Radio 4, at 17.30 GMT (during the 'PM' programme
> which runs 17.00-18.00), the news will be read "in an accent you don't often
> hear reading the news".
>
> The announcement came at 43 mins into last night's PM, followed by some
> discussion of accent/dialect throughout the rest of the programme, here:
> www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03hxkkf/?t=43m1s
>
> To tune in live next week, go here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/on-air. Or
> you can listen to episodes of PM for a week after broadcast, here:
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qskw. You can also use the guide I
> emailed to the list previously about recording such things for permanent
> use: http://goo.gl/1L8suD.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Dave
>
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> Dr. Dave Sayers
> Honorary Research Fellow, Arts & Humanities, Swansea University, UK
> Visiting Lecturer (2013-14), Dept English, University of Turku, Finland
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