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Originally Posted by mobertol
Managed to watch most today -admit to skiping some as I'd seen it before. See what you mean about the accents...not all though - Nick's Yorkshire dales WAS sexy but got ruined by adding is American...Neil had little trace of the scouser. Remembered most of what happened to him except the Finding God bit -must admit it surprised me... Next installment 2012? Shpuld be interesting -the change from the 50's to now is so huge -we forget how far technology and wealth has brought most people compared to then...
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Not so much that their accents changed, though they did.
The fact that no children speak like that anymore.
Children in London certainly don't.
Sad really.
Watching it now you notice how engineered, and unrepresentative the choice of children was.
I think it's about 95% of children who go to state schools, so in theory there should have been just one child from a public school, not a third.
It's very much 'posh' versus 'oiks'.
There are few if any kids from the vast range in the middle.
That said, still fascinating though.