AIBU or are there a disproportionate number of Scots accents on cbeebies?

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Woolly and Tig, Balamory, Me Too, Bits and Bobs and now "keetee moooregg."

And only one scouser, and not a single northerner! What's going on?!

I think realising early that there are a variety of accents in the world can only help development. I find it quite insulting to say it's confusing to English children. What about Scottish children, welsh children and Northern Irish children watching tv with English accents? The UK has 4 countries although a lit of people don't seem to realise this. I am proud of my accent, Gaelic is amazing I love listening to it despite not speaking a word of it. The shinty on bbc alba is fantastic.

Old Jack's Boat is set in Yorkshire and Waybuloo is Scottish but dubbed over.

The Midlands is very under represented! Not everything revolves around Birmingham!

"Keith Fitt from Gigglebiz is Scouse"

This made me laugh. Keith has the voice of a Geordie but the looks of a Scouse. YANBU to get confused.

Who's welsh accents are fake?

The whole "northern accents" thing really makes me laugh There's no such thing! The north of England has such hugely diverse accents-Yorkshire alone has different accents across the different ridings.

For Yorkshire accents I can think of the little boy from Green Balloon Club who is from Scarborough. Old Jack's Boat is set in Staithes I believe but Bernard Cribbens is from Lancashire.

Not one of the presenters has a Scottish accent do they? My two children couldn't give a monkeys about accents!!

Hang on Mr Bloom isn't Northern? What?

thebody- I think Small's voice is Lenny Henry and he is from Brum.

If Scotland do get independence what would happen to BBC Scotland?
(I'd like some northern voices personally)

Agree about the fake accents. Mr Bloom's "northern" accent is obviously fake and it's just lazy to avoid finding a real northern actor.

Oh and why does anything rural have to have a SW England accent? There are plenty of other rural areas.

But the bloke off Mr Bloom made up the programme. Wonder why he decided to play it northern when he's Cornish.

It sounds quite realistic to me and I'm kind of a Manc.

Well no matter if the Scottish accents go out of fashion, I bet us Brummie's will never end up being the favourites on TV (thank goodness...)

Big and Small definitely isn't fake Brummie. It whatsisname doing the voices.

Oh my god, I can't remember his name! It'll come to me.

Lenny Henry!

Thank goodness. That would have bugged me all day!

*Brummies even!

I'm sure someone else has said it, but how could Katie Morag have anything other than a Scottish accent?

BBC Scotland is obviously just doing it's bit.

Lenny Henry is Big and Small! And the mouse(? It's been a while since I saw it, anyway, the female character) is Imelda Staunton.
Nearly all the female and children characters in Postman Pat are done by the same woman.

Keith Fit does not have a Geordie accent. It's a typical middle-class-southerner-putting-on-a-Geordie-accent-and-mangling-it accent.

Pearl verlting indeed.

Did you know that the children in Waybuloo are also Scottish but they dubbed them with London accents which always sound really bizarre, forced and fake, especially the laughing! I guess somebody in TV land decided there were too many scottish programmes already

Don't forget Abney and Teal, no accent but "Neep" is a Scottish word.

From my childhood there was the Family Ness.

Yanbu. Get Well Soon also features a Scottish accent. Nina & the Neurons is also bloody annoying.

Don't get me wrong, I don't mind the accent, but the amount of programs on cbeebies with a Scottish accent are disproportionate to the population. My dh is Scottish so it drives me nuts hearing the accent all the time.

myMILisfromHELL " My dh is Scottish so it drives me nuts hearing the accent all the time".

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The vast majority of accents on the BBC are English.
Nice that Scottish children can hear words pronounced correctly with Scottish accents on kids TV.