Religion and Ethics Forum
General Category => Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment => Topic started by: Aruntraveller on August 01, 2017, 02:56:40 PM
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As part of the Gay Britannia season there are a series of short monologues playing at 10 each evening on BBC4.
The first two last night were very good imo.
The first one in particular about a soldier in the First World War played by Ben Whishaw was excellent - and a finer bit of acting I've not seen in a long time.
The second one had a particular appeal to me as the character was from Nottingham and they got the accent and references pretty spot on.
Worth watching.
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Recording them all for a binge - Ben Whishaw, always a splendid actor (never better IMHO as Keats in Bright Star was on lovely form in Lilting last night too).
Intrigued about the accuracy of the Nottingham accent - not easy to do and incredibly rarely done (why does 'Midlands' for telly people so often mean 'West Midlands'? Totally different area, totally different dialect), so I'll be critical.
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Well I don't have a terribly good ear for that sort of thing - but the first thing partner said was: "That's a Nottingham accent" although the actor is from London. FFion Whitehead I believe.
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There's a black actor from Nottingham who does a sterling job of keeping the E. Mids. end up - his name will come to me eventually.
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There's a black actor from Nottingham who does a sterling job of keeping the E. Mids. end up - his name will come to me eventually.
Lennie James?
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Lennie James?
No ... fabulous actor, but not him.
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There's a black actor from Nottingham who does a sterling job of keeping the E. Mids. end up - his name will come to me eventually.
Arsher Ali?
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I hope this works:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/jenthomas/can-you-speak-nottinghamshire?utm_term=.pdv3O8jeg&quiz_result=8300175_16926169#.jvz
It is nearly 40 years now since I lived in my native region (born in Nottingham lived in Grantham from 5 to 23, and then spent four years in mid-30s in Nottingham) and I CANNOT do the Nottingham accent.
I managed 13/16 in the test.
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16/16.
But then I'm only just down the road, and there's not much in the way of difference.
The black actor from Nottingham I was thinking of is called Johann Myers, by the way. Unfortunately not much of him online, but he's the big nasty bastard in this clip from 2:10 on:
https://youtu.be/p25KOFi15n8
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14/16, but not surprising because I mix with quite a few birders from South Yorkshire/ Nottinghamshire
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13, not knowingly been to Nottingham but some of the usage is similar to other places.