Talk:Wilfred Pickles
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"... and to all in the North, good neet"
I'm amazed that Pickles was actually allowed to say this. Has a recording of this announcement been uploaded anywhere?
Even now, BBC announcers (local and national) do not speak with strong regional accents, and regional dialect words are definitely not permitted. I find it surprising that Pickles could get away with it prior to World War II, when the BBC expected its presenters to use Received Pronunciation and to speak the King's English. 217.155.20.163 12:50, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Publicity
A note of minor consequence but telling of Wikipedia's influence I think. This article has just (10th Jan 2008, 10:30am) been been read out live on BBC Radio Gloucestershire. The presenter (John Rockley, a conspicuous northern presenter on a southern BBC station) caveated the information as "according to the Inter-web". 87.112.84.14 (talk) 10:30, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
