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And what happened to talking proper? All right, so a full-on return to the bollock-throttling vocal styles of the 1950s isn’t necessarily a good thing. But it would be nice to have presenters who had some vague grasp of normal patterns of speech. It’s not as if they all come from tiny villages deep in the heart of the Auvergne. Most of them are putting on a completely made-up glottal Estuary media Cockernortherny accent anyway.

It’s all good for sales of the Radio Times anyway, since if you can’t understand what the stone-chewing inarticulatists are saying, you can just go and look it up in a listing mag, and pray it doesn’t say, ‘7.30 – Cawnashem Speet’.