Radio 3's 'Between the Ears' last night (at 9 pm) was on 'Paradise'.
It included quite a bit on Applecross in Ross-shire which a charming
middle-class woman film-maker held as a candidate for the title role.
It also had the voice of a retired fisherman reading, native to the
village, among other things, parts of Paradise Lost with vowel sounds
that Milton would have felt at home with.
You can bet that within a decade or so everybody in that village will
talk like the film-maker.
2008/5/25 Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]>:
> From: "Sally Evans" <[log in to unmask]>
>
>> Irvine Welsh is from Glasgow.
>
> Bite it and see.
>
> I grew up in Denniston, while my son never heard anything other than East
> Midlands in his life, and although he has no problems with Welsh's speech, I
> keep tripping over how it should sound like what I think it should.
>
> _Trainspotting_ is set in Edinburgh and sounds Morningside -- if it looks
> like a duck and quacks like a duck and has feathers, it probably *is a duck.
>
>> And I have the monopoly on elephants - at the moment, cos of my new book.
>> Alsdair Gray is a v good example and becoming even more of an artist than
>> a writer - he's done a michelangelo on a formerly disused church in
>> Glasgow's west end. Brilliant!
>
> Blake illusatrated his poems too. I feel about the same way about both.
>
> Actually, and slightly more seriously, my objections to Alasdair's visual
> material would be two-fold -- it's limited, and it never changes.
>
> Whereas _Lanark_ is to die for.
>
> R.
>
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