Apparently, with the current interest in all things Ricardian, someone has been trying to work out what Richard III sounded like.
They seem to think he had a West Midlands accent - and Broadcasting House on Radio 4 demonstrated what he might have sounded like by inviting Noddy Holder into the studio to read out a note written by Richard himself, and the famous "Now is the winter of our discontent" speech from Shakespeare!
(Of course, Shakespeare himself was a Brummy, more or less! According to the Radio 4 comedy Old Harry's Game, anyway).
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