Peter Kay's Accent in 'Cradle to Grave'

[mulhuzz]

how the hell was that allowed to be broadcast? I watched it mute with subtitles after the first 10 words from his mouth.

very surprised at Danny Baker - who i assume had a lot of editorial control given he wrote the series and it's based on his book/life - for allowing that as a 'South London' accent.

As the native speaker of an accent that is very often absolutely brutalised by impersonations/impressions I'm used to hearing shit accents. But that was something else.

If you haven't seen it, here you go

or here...

[AndrewT]

I'm perfectly sure Baker knows the accent is all over the place, but they're good mates and Kay is the big name that gets something like this made and given a big marketing push.