He has, but that wouldn't have attracted me either. Maybe as a presenter I'd have got to like the person - but I love the voice.

Glaswegian is my local accent and not one of the most popular in the UK, even so I love Darius's speaking voice. There's nothing harsh about his accent and he speaks quite softly.

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It depends which part of Glasgow. There were areas that I felt I needed a translator for.

I also have trouble understanding the stronger Glasgow accent. As for a strong Belfast accent - forget it.

I have a good ear for language but I find broad Aberdonian impossible to get more than the gist from.

 

Of the accents I've encountered south of the border, I found I had to really concentrate to understand anything much in West Country and Cornish accents.

I don't understand a thick Geordie accent either.

I think it's just a case of tuning in. It can take a while. I worked with a Glaswegion and spent months translating for him. A few years later and I was struggling again to understand. I was a bit like that in listening to one of the TV programmes. I didn't like it much but it fascinated me that I felt the need for sub-titles. I can't remember what it was called. Something like Ras C Nesbit? I don't really remember.

I tend to panic before I've had a chance to tune in.

You'd be Ok after the panic died down. It's just when you're not used to it and don't get time to adjust. When I moved to the South of England, a lot of people couldn't understand me.

Some years ago, when we stayed with an old fisherman and his family in the Highlands, I missed out on a lot of the tales he used to tell us in the evenings. Hubby had to do a resume afterwards.

It makes you know how people with a hearing problem feel. Just not quite there with things.

I often feel that way without the hearing problem !!!!!!

But it makes you aware of others difficulties - not that I don't feel like yelling when my father-in-law can't understand anyone as he wont wear his hearing aids because "i have very good hearing, i don't need them"

The sound system on GWTW was one of the best I've ever heard in a theatre.

It was patchy at times though. At the beginning they didn't switch to the cast member speaking quickly enough and, at the end, they sometimes hadn't got the balance between orchestra and actors.

Wouldn't have thought it was so difficult. The theatre was quite compact so volume was not demanding, it was just the

quality that had to be delivered.

I think the good sound system helped me to hear and remember more of the songs' lyrics. So thank you, belatedly, Paul Groothuis.

Knowing just how many changes were made to the show, it was amazing the sound engineer got it right most of the time.

I don't think I'll ever forget walking into the auditorium of the New London for the first time and seeing the stage setting for Gone With The Wind. It was gobsmacking, such a contrast to the location, the undistinguished outside and mundane staircases.

 

I'm so glad I was able to go down to London a couple of times.

Took your breathe away, didn't it? And you felt so much a part of it. Brilliant.