... Mind Your Language still speaks volumes for ITV's sitcom legacy David Liddiment's comment that ITV has not produced a hugely successful sitcom since Rising Damp (News, August 31, page 3), is indeed not true. The LWT sitcom Mind Your Language had 14 ...

... leaping onto the bandwagon of youth culture, there is no friendly generation gap to point the way. Adults all employ teen speak in the hope of getting through to the kids. Where, nowadays, is the judge who dares to say: Who are the Beatles? Where ...

... Speech police made wrong arrest Here we go again. No sooner does anyone speak up for the oppressed Received Pronunciation than the establishment--the speech police--jumps on them and accuses them of being anti-dialect. But no one objects to dialect. Remember ...

... Clayhanger, my very first television part. I had to play a scene, supposedly with Thelma, but she was off camera and as she didn't speak she didn't have to be there. As I couldn't see the person, I found it difficult to judge my voice level. Thelma quietly stepped ...

... Consonant-free Buffy slays me It is about time that American films carried subtitles for English-speaking audiences. In the days of Gable, Cagney, Davies, Hepburn and so on we had no difficulty but I once sampled Buffy the Vampire Slayer out of idle curiosity ...

... had been rejected, and as though I had been discriminated against because of my speech. Is it becoming a criminal offence to speak Standard English? Susan Lea Tothill Street Ramsgate Kent ...

... actors passing through drama schools stripped of their regional accents, their emotional range bottled up. Shakespeare did not speak with an RP accent. But so long as the debate on the skills of stage communication is conducted from positions of prejudice ...

... another actor was telling a similar tale about her audition for a Midlands small-scale company, when she had been told: No one speaks like that nowadays. Well, of course they do. Actors of my generation, for a start. I had to smile. We have come full circle ...

... also imagined a latter-day Shakespeare setting off from Stratford with Hamlet in his pocket. Hamlet contains more than 30 speaking parts It is the sort of play a modern manager would refuse to produce on the ground of expense, apart altogether from ...

... from Susan Lea (March 16, Letters, page 7) and John Samson (April 6, Letters, page 9). One is heartily sick of hearing cat-speak by which I mean 'how now brown cow' rhyming with 'meow', other adenoidal vowel sounds, adjectives being used where there should ...

... colleagues will take a leaf out of lan's book and learn the value of dignity and benevolence in this term of office. I believe I speak for all my colleagues on Council when I say it is a great shame that Ian did not stand for the General List as well as his ...

... application should depend. How they could reach the decision not to oppose without allowing the distinguished building to speak for itself angers me. All may not yet be lost, so keep the objections coming emphasising these ooints. Michael Earl Vice Chair ...