To think that if it isn't ok to say someone sounds too black, too northern, too Jewish or too foreign to present on the BBC

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then it shouldn't be ok to say someone sounds too posh:

www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2088698/Dame-Joan-Bakewell-says-shes-plummy-voiced-work-politically-correct-corporation.html

Why is reverse snobbery the last acceptable prejudice?

What does too Jewish sound like?

oy vey??

Cant say I have ever heard anyone "too jewish" on the BBC...

Because posh people are privileged by society.

Everyone on TV has a posher voice than me. She is talking out of her arse.

How one speaks does not tell people anything about one's background. My parents were married in 1939 and had no home of their own until they were council-housed in 1946. They were in council accommodation thereafter. My father had a 'London' (not cockney) accent and my mother a hint of Geordie. I went to a grammar school though where we had speech training lessons with enforced learning by heart of poetry. Now people think I am posh.

I would say, though, that whoever speaks when broadcasting ought to have an understandable voice. It's not a question really of accents but how the words come out.

I can't see anywhere in that article where anyone from the BBC has ever actually said to her that she sounds too posh. Only her opinion that it's the reason they aren't employing her now. And her accusation that they are being "forced" to use people with a variety of accents because of "political correctness".

She just sounds bitter to me - I don't see any reason to think that the BBC are discriminating against anyone on the grounds of their accent from what she says. If anything, I'd guess they are discriminating against her because she's 78, and/or because her attitude to diversity is unacceptable.

i dont like very strong regional accents, particularly scottish, simply because it grates on my nerves and half the time i cant understand what the heck they are on about

posh is ok, at least you can understand the words

Because posh people are privileged by society.

so what. so you cant aspire to do well because others dont like it, yet its ok to be a chavster? LOL at your world

That article looks like crap to me, and that woman is just attention seeking.

The only thing a presenters voice needs to be is clear and understandable to the entire population. Most strong accents will not be suitable.

Being fattist is also an acceptable prejudice in society still, sadly.

I intensely dislike the one lady's accent in This Morning (blonde lady who does interviews) - monotone and awful to listen to. I love other northern accents etc. though.. each to their own.

Because posh people are privileged by society

Um... yeah right... That's a prejudice you need to deal with flame

Posh people aren't privileged by society? [gets champagne out]

funny, I was watching DIY SOS last night and Nina Campbell was the interior decorator for this particular episode. Now THERE'S an accent you dont hear very often!!

so perhaps Joan (wasnt she the 'thinking man's crumpet' back in the 60s?) has a point.

when I hear seriously posh people on the telly now I am quite surprised (and no, I dont mean the type of ra ra Rupert who works in the City and just sounds a bit public school).