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Dream Me Up Scotty!

A history of the Scottish accent on television and film.
Dec 23, 2013 · 59m
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Alex Norton discovers how showbusiness has handled the portrayal of the Scottish accent. For over 100 years audiences have struggled to understand our braw brogue: silent Harry Lauder films attempted an accent in the captions, and in Hollywood's golden era , everyone wanted to paint their tonsils tartan- but as examples from Katharine Hepburn, Orson Welles and Richard Chamberlain show, they couldnae. Then Disney made Brave and proved that it disnae have to be all bad!

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Alex Norton
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Directed by John MacLaverty

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Released
Original language
EN
Budget
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Production
BBC Scotland, Hopscotch Films
Country
GB, US

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