Dream Me Up Scotty!

A history of the Scottish accent on television and film.

59 mins
Alex Norton discovers how showbusiness has handled the portrayal of the Scottish accent. For over 100 years audiences have struggled to understand our braw brogue: silent Harry Lauder films attempted an accent in the captions, and in Hollywood's golden era , everyone wanted to paint their tonsils tartan- but as examples from Katharine Hepburn, Orson Welles and Richard Chamberlain show, they couldnae. Then Disney made Brave and proved that it disnae have to be all bad!

Alex Norton

Presenter

Brian Howell

Sound Recordist

Marco Cervi

Additional Camera

Alex Cain

Sound Mixer

Dhivya-Kate Chetty

Assistant Production Manager

Ewan Angus

Executive Producer

John Archer

Producer

Jack Archer

Researcher

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