Accents

I'm interested to know what others think of the accents in South Riding. To me they seem to be a mixture of Northern accents rather than Yorkshire, or more particularly East Yorkshire. I know there was some discussion of this on the BBC messageboard and one person commented on the prevalence of the West Yorkshire accent. John Henshaw (Mr Huggins) is a great character actor but his Mancunian accent grates a little bit.

Mind you, I've noticed this in Coronation Street. Although its set in Manchester, many of the actors have very obvious Yorkshire accents.

I guess this sounds picky but coming from West Yorkshire I notice these things!

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