Former BBC newsreader Jan Leeming has sparked debate after joking she is less likely to find work in television these days due to her received pronunciation accent. Leeming, 82, replied to a follower ...

Former BBC newsreader Jan Leeming has suggested she no longer gets work because of her received pronunciation accent. The broadcaster joked that she doesn’t “tick modern boxes” on account of her voice ...

In this video, I explore the subplot of Colin Frissell in *Love Actually*, analyzing whether his British accent is genuinely ...

There is one accent that is often rated as the most prestigious - Received Pronunciation. But what is RP and how did it come about? Lynda Mugglestone is a Professor of the History of English at the ...

George Bernard Shaw famously observed that “it is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him.” That was in the preface to Pygmalion, whose hero, ...