Here is the context. I bailed out of the thread because obviously I was dealing with someone who had a completely different perception of reality to me.
a lot of the lead actors in 70s Who spoke with Cockney or Estuary accents naturally...
Exactly; it was how they got work. Not to mention the BBC's culture at the time was strongly biased against regional accents.
Complaining that Tom Baker, a man with a working class Catholic-Jewish background who was working as labourer to pay the bills, is "posh" involves a very reductive understanding of class. Even the Hon. Lalla Ward used to get pissy in interviews and point out that her parents earned wages and paid taxes.
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a lot of the lead actors in 70s Who spoke with Cockney or Estuary accents naturally...
Exactly; it was how they got work. Not to mention the BBC's culture at the time was strongly biased against regional accents.
Complaining that Tom Baker, a man with a working class Catholic-Jewish background who was working as labourer to pay the bills, is "posh" involves a very reductive understanding of class. Even the Hon. Lalla Ward used to get pissy in interviews and point out that her parents earned wages and paid taxes.