M&D - I Hear Voices

[Elisabeth Romberg]

Great post.
It’s hilarious innit. Me too have wondered, he must have lived in England for a bit, surely, how is it possible otherwise? How can one just research such a thing? 
Gazza mate, hahah. I’m adding a clip of Bob Mortimer as well just for the record and a bit more «speak».

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh-bAW3IwhI

> 24. mar. 2015 kl. 03.05 skrev Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com>:
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> As an Englishman I'm impressed by how well TRP captures the distinctive regional accents of both Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon - if he didn't live in Britain for a while then he certainly intensively researched speaking patterns. I'd like to provide a couple of examples of those accents for non-British readers, so they can gain a sense of how the characters sound when they speak.
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> Mason is from Stroud, in the rural South West of England. The most famous resident of Stroud I can think of is Jack Russell, an English cricketer and a man of myriad eccentricities (no wonder TRP was drawn to the game in ATD). Don't try to keep up with the sporting jargon, but Russell's gentle burr is typical of Mason's Gloucestershire accent:
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_6XI0r3-EQ <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_6XI0r3-EQ>
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> Jeremiah Dixon is from the diametric opposite corner of England, Durham. Apologies for another sporting clip, especially as I sent this one out before (at the start of the group read) but if you want to familiarise yourself with Dixon's Geordie accent, look no further than Gazza
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwNAZFHHirg <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwNAZFHHirg>
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