> Now I enjoy BBC announcers with regional accents, unlike the voices I heard on BBC in the seventies and eighties. I agree. The downside of the loosening of t

> Now I enjoy BBC announcers with regional accents, unlike the voices I heard on BBC in the seventies and eighties. I agree. The downside of the loosening of the old standard is heard in the number of actors who mumble through their lines. I wouldn't want to go back to a time when RADA enforced a kind of RP but I would like them to focus just as hard on diction.