Babies

I, for one, am quite enjoying Babies. And I can’t say I noticed anything at all odd about the accents or even the audibility. However, I’m a born-and-bred Londoner and I do only watch programmes with subtitles, so maybe that explains it? Shame they haven’t provided subtitles for Bookish yet. I’d been looking forward to that.

I could understand it easily, and I am from Manchester!
I also found it very moving, miscarriage is so often glossed over, it was good to see a programme that recognised how devastating it can be.
Guess I am another of the BBC loving hoi polloi

Why is it that some accents are considered to be indicators of low intelligence, intellectual and education. Many accents are difficult to understand if you are not familiar with them. But London accents are frequently derided in this way. What is a London accent anyway, used to usually mean Cockney when being criticised.

My DH watches Football Focus on Saturday, and both of us cannot abide Alex Scott, who seems to have no T or G in her vocabulary and gabbles so fast.

There are other broad accents in her guests, after all they are there because of their football expertise, but she is the anchor and needs to do better

Lord Digby Jones mentioned this and was shot down. Her reply was she was proud of her roots, but MY London roots never dropped my Gs (although perhaps Hs), but then I never aspired to be a TV presenter for the whole nation

Aarrgh! Don’t get me started. Beth Rigby on Sky News drives me nuts!! She drops every ‘g’ from the end of words. I’m surprised the entire country can’t hear me shouting ‘gettinG, movinG, waitinG etc’ at my TV 😂

I enjoyed Babies - found it very well acted and well written. I must be a member of the BBC loving hoi polloi I suppose.

Watermelon

The BBC's continuing downward spiral to appeal to hoi polloi and those of the lowest intelligence, intellect and education.
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Estuary English is dreadful. Lived in Essex for over 40 years and always struggled.

I agree. I quite liked it but really struggled to decipher what they were actually saying. It was really difficult and I'm amazed that the makers/producers/whoever, didn't notice this before putting the programme out.
I solved it by putting sub titles on. But that shouldn't be necessary.

Yes, it is irritating when people omit letters from words…….we watched Channel 4 Batch From Scratch presented by Joe Swash and another person. Joe stated that they were travelling to “Nottnum” to visit the xxxxx family……NO Joe, you were visiting NOTTINGHAM!!!!!

It was poor ( cost cutting) sound quality.

Re TheOther Bennet Sister. That is why it’s so good on every level, details, details.

(No need for subtitles on The Other Bennett Sister - a total joy to watch!)

This is one of the reasons I almost always put the subtitles on with new series. Mumbling, poor sound recording, accents etc make it necessary!

Blimey, if you think their "London" accents are strong you should hear mine. I think their way of speaking was more estuary than specifically London.

I watched a bit of 'Babies' but gave up after about ten minutes, not because I found the accents difficult to understand but because it failed to grip me.

Am nit going to be watching it. Instead I binge watched the Other Bennet Sister.