> >> > >>Here's another one; possibly my favourite railway film. Mr > >>Cholmondely-Warner at his best in the intro. > >> > >>Snowdrift at Bleath Gill http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymz6D8eFeUg > > > > > > I like the fact that they have someone with a 'regional' > accent doing > > the main commentary. His well-hidden accent sounds a bit > like Michael > > Parkinson's, which is Barnsley and therefore entirely the > wrong area > > of Yorkshire for the film. But the speaker sounds as though > he spent > > most of his Oxford years losing the accent, only to be told by > > Cholmondley-Warner of the BBC to dredge it up again for the > sake of a > > patronising commentary about tough working class cheps. > > I think that's the young Derek Guyler. Being a trained actor > with a "distictive" voice, he was probably told to "do > Northern" for it.
I just googled Guyler. It seems he was from Merseyside, which to Cholmondley-Warner in Chiswick is much the same place as Darlington... Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
