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'What are you going to do about your accent?' The fight against the bias that sees Northern actors 'cast as servants'

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The breadth of accents in the UK is so diverse that travelling just a few miles can make a massive difference to how a person's voice sounds.The rich burrs of a Lancashire dialect differ from the stresses and cadences of Manchester voices - synonymous with Coronation Street or the Gallagher brothers - or the guttural sing-song of the Liverpool dialect, a riff on the Irish and Welsh accents of immigrants.Even within the city of Manchester, different suburbs can have different accents.But one thing people from across the North have in common is the risk of being judged for the way they speak in London-dominated industries.Maxine Peake recently described how Northern actors end up being cast as servants because they are seen as uneducated.But.

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