Dream Me Up Scotty!

2013-12-2359m14+

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!

Cast:Alex Norton,

Genre:Documentary,

country:United Kingdom,

Production:BBC Scotland, Hopscotch Films,

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