Voices. He heard his uncle's voice ...

We were watching the programme about the British landscape (studying mainly Victorian landscape painters and seeing how the places had changed with the passing of time), where the centre of focus had travelled from the east coast to Dorset, to Wales, to Devon; in Wales there was a male voice choir singing 'Gwlad, gwlad ...' etc - you know, the other standard Welsh song sung at rugby matches - not the one about saucepans.

Anyway, one of the Welsh blokes asked David Dimbleby (him wot presents the programme) what 'dialect' (I think he meant accent) he had. DD replied that he spoke the dialect he was taught at his father's knee - BBC English. He went on to say that it was a dying voice. I wish he'd made the point that it's as important as any other tongue, and should be given the same importance and preservation as, say, Welsh? After all, it's one of the few accents that everyone understands ...