The Musicality of Accents

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I always find when I'm trying to do accents, there are certain holes that you fall into. Berwick is halfway between the two, and it's half of one and half of the other. If you just start doing it a little bit too sharp, then you've got the same musicality as someone from Mumbai. Sometimes you get somebody's Cockney and then like, could I mate?

Special Guest Mark Steel joins me to discuss cultural and linguistic differences between the UK and France, plus accents in the UK and a little tour of some places in the UK that you don't know about. Also includes a discussion of swearing and rude language in Britain. What is the R word which you should never say in a specific part of the UK? Listen on to find out.

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