The Medium is Not Enough TV blog: Microfeed for "The Welsh in old kids' shows" http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/2008/07/the_welsh_in_old_kids_shows.php Comments for the entry "The Welsh in old kids' shows" en-us Movable Type v4.32-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:18:15 +00:00 Comment from Chris Wild It's an interesting point.

A few years ago I was developing a computer game that needed an australian voice over. The creative director went through a number of actual australian voice artists before settling on a member of staff putting on an australian accent... basically the problem was that of stereotypes... what someone expects to hear rather than what they would actually sound like.

]]> 4202@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c24329 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:18:15 +00:00 Comment from Jane Henry I did like Ivor the Engine though... crap Welsh accents notwithstanding. Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin really were geniuses. Everything they did was brill.

]]> 4202@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c24330 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:29:35 +00:00 Comment from MediumRob I have it on DVD...

]]> 4202@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c24331 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:32:42 +00:00 Comment from stu-n Such a shame you still can't get Noggin the Nog on DVD. I have all the books, but even doing an impression of Oliver Postgate when you read them, it's not the same.

]]> 4202@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c24336 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:47:40 +00:00 Comment from MediumRob Yes you can!

]]> 4202@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c24337 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:58:20 +00:00 Comment from Mark H Wilkinson However bad the late Joe Lynch's Welsh accent might have been, his English accent(s) seems to have passed muster.

I like the fact that in Postgate Wales the measure of unimaginable wealth is the ability to import hats from distant lands such as London. And not only that, but new hats -- now there's posh.

]]> 4202@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c24338 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:50:31 +00:00 Comment from Rev Being Welsh myself I grew up railing against this, well I don't know what to call it really. Cultural bias? It's always seemed rather ironic as the Welsh are natural entertainers. I'd hesitate to call it "the plight of the Welsh" but for a long time the country had been treated (in the media) as something for the English to look down on.

But hopefully we're past that now, there are some exceptionally talented Welsh actors out there (there's also Catherine Zeta-Jones) and you'd be suprised at how many others come from Welsh descent on at least one side of their family.

Thank goodness for Roley Mole, Gavin and Stacey and BBC Wales bringing us drama like Doctor Who, . *Sticks fingers in ears and pretends Torchwood doesn't exist*.

]]> 4202@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c24339 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:06:27 +00:00 Comment from stu-n Yay! *orders*

]]> 4202@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c24340 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:23:27 +00:00 Comment from Jane Henry I'm one of those wot have Welsh in my distant past - my mother was a Thomas (allegedly some ancestor was mayor of Mongomery), I've also married a Williams, does that make me nearly Welsh enough to visit this blog? Actually even without Welsh antecedents, I'm a Welshophile (if such a word exists) - lots of brilliant holidays (usually, but not always, wet) in both North and South stick very fondly in the memory banks.

Oh and Noggin the Nog ROCKS (as my daughters would say).

]]> 4202@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c24341 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:18:14 +00:00 Comment from MediumRob You don't have to be Welsh (or a Welshphile) to come here, but it helps. If not, we'll convert you.

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