You are viewing a single comment's thread from:RE: Porridge RevisitedView the full contextarticle61 (66)in #tv • 6 years ago Great show and I come from the same town as Ronnie Barkers co-star. We recently commissioned an artist to honour him and some others who originate from Beeston.
and yet they made him do a West Midlands accent (ropily) presumably because Smethwick sounds funnier than Beeston or Bramcote :)
You gotta love a brummy accent! Unfortunately we just sound either common or posh in my neck of the woods.