Sure, you THINK you know what RP is, but do you? Do you REALLY? In this episode we ask the most marvellous linguist in all of the land to tell us where it came from, and how it’s progressed through the ages. We also had a brilliant response to our call for your RP samples, so we use those to have a big think about what RP means in its modern form.

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This episode features submissions by: Andre Refig, Andrew Dennis, Millie Jones, Alice King and Amina Koroma

Here are some links, as promised in the show:

Nic’s Big New Thing “The Voice Coach Podcast” is HERE, or wherever you listen to podcasts!

Find Jan and Edda’s book on English accents HERE 

Find Erik Singer’s Wired video HERE 

Find Chi Luu’s essay on why RP is the accent of choice for movie baddies HERE 

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Also, some important credits:

Theme tune written and performed by Martin Stirrup under this Creative Commons license.

The violin music under the e-Learning Narrator part of the Vocalmist ad is by Joseph Earwicker

The music in the Source Elements ad is by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)