This is the BBC.

Hello, I'm Nick Robinson.

As we're taking a break over the summer,

here's a chance to listen again to an edition of Archive on Four,

presented by my BBC colleague, Chris Mason.

It's all about the accents of politics,

and the politics of accents.

He'll hear some pretty familiar voices.

Here I'm down in Soho Square,

dropping H is everywhere,

speaking English anyway they like.

Are you sir, you do go to school?

What are you tightly for, if you?

No, I'm taught him to take instead of take.

Here Yorkshireman, old words, here a cornishman,

conversed rather here a choir singing flat.

From the musical My Fair Lady,

a parody of the peculiarities of the English language

and pronunciation.

Yes, accents are rich in sound,

but more than that, they're heavy in baggage

that we load onto others and others load onto us.

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