ACCENTS ALL AT SEA
There’s a lot of talk about accents lately. One Direction’s Liam Payne took stick for dropping his Wolverhampton brogue at the Oscars, and people in Seaton Carew are miffed that Eddie Marsan and Monica Dolan (who play the Canoe Man and his wife in the ITV drama) speak like Geordies.
Coming from Liverpool I’m well used to my accent being mangled into a Harry Enfield parody. But I’ve grown to realise it’s what’s said, not how it’s spoken, that matters.
I’d rather hear an out-of-town actress speak a Jimmy McGovern line in a part Brummie/Irish/Manc wail than hear Scousers like Nadine Dorries and Esther McVey spout the worst kind of Tory propaganda.
It’s hearing my own people speak in devilish tongues that makes me want to assault my TV set.