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'Did the people who cast the TV show lazily assume Brummies and Black Country folk are the same? We Ay!' - Your Letters plus a picture from the past from 1983

Today a reader questions whether TV producers know the difference between the Brummie and Black Country dialect, why the hush around the National Trust's takeover of the Ironbridge Museums, and getting maths right.

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PICTURE FROM THE PAST: Showing off their skills at Ironbridge Craft Centre were Heather Joss, from Telford, and Debbie Peach, from Wolverhampton, in August, 1983. Severn Gorge Ceramics was set up by Heather 18 months earlier, after taking a degree in 3D design at Wolverhampton Polytechnic.

Murdering our local accents

I have one question about the Murder before Evensong TV series.

Why are Brummie accents making an appearance? I would have thought possibly a Cotswold/West Country working class accent from some locals as I expected the series to be set in that area as the author did live there for some time. Failing that as it was filmed in Worfield, Bridgnorth and Dudley areas you might have 'caught' the rare Black Country twang? 

Or did the people who cast the show rather lazily assume Brummies and Black Country folk are the same and interchangeable at the casters will. 

Message for them: We Ay! As, no doubt many locals could have told them. In fact with a little study, the people in the 'back room' could have discovered many subtle differences in areas quite close to each other in the Black Country - take Gornal and Sedgley as examples.

Michael Gough, Wombourne

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