M&D - I Hear Voices

[Elisabeth Romberg]

Really? wow, thank you for the info. He must’ve travelled North as well:) 
In a flannel shirt? lol

> 24. mar. 2015 kl. 13.26 skrev Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>:
> 
> yes, word is he did live in England for awhile. Made some face-to-face
> friends, including, Ian McEwan reportedly.  Supposedly researched at
> the British Museum.
> was at at least one dinner party in a flannel shirt. Called
> Christopher Hitchens up once.
> 
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 4:00 AM, Elisabeth Romberg <eromberg at mac.com> wrote:
>> 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>:
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 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:
>> 
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_6XI0r3-EQ
>> 
>> 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
>> 
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwNAZFHHirg
>> 
>> 
>> 

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