9 Unusual Sounds that Remind Me of England
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- As a Canadian living in England for the last 8 years, there's so much that feels like home now. And there are certain SOUNDS that actually remind me of the UK!
Check out these 9 unusual sounds that remind me of England - and my new home here!
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Hey! I'm Alanna - a thirty-something documenting my life as a Canadian living in England.
I share the ups and downs of an expat living abroad and what it's really like living in the UK. It's not always easy, but there's been so many wonderful experiences, too. I post a CZcams video every Tuesday plus an additional video every Saturday on Patreon + YT Memberships. I also livestream every Wednesday and Sunday at 5:30pm GMT/BST on Twitch.
Alanna x
I heard a piece on the radio a while ago. The widow of the man who recorded the "Mind the gap" announcement found that the system had been updated and the recording of her late husbands announcement had gone. She was understandably saddened, so she wrote to London Transport to ask if they could supply her with a copy of the recording. They did better than that, they reinstated the recording on her local tube station, so whenever she goes anywhere on the tube, her husband makes the announcement to "Mind the gap"
“Unexpected item in the bagging area” is what I want played at my funeral as the coffin is wheeled into the furnace…
Haha 😅
😂
🤣 Perfect!!!
Brilliant! 😂😂😂😂
I hear that every time I shop in Canada!
Pearl & Dean theme is called “Asteroids” written in 1968 by Pete Moore. He was a good friend of my folks - good fella. Have a great week.
I used to have this as my phone ringtone.
I loved the fact you used a really british phrase, and didn't notice. You said '......Standing there like a Lemon'. And you didn't batter an eyelid, lol. xxx
I think you mean "bat an eyelid" not "batter an eyelid".🤣
@@stumccabe Yep, totally pisspronounced my worms!
Not many people know that is rhyming slang - 'lemon curd'. I won't say what it rhymes with but it was mostly used when someone was 'sold a lemon' - something that was no good.
@@stumccabemaybe she punched someone in the eye 😅
@@simonwatson5299 Excellent response Simon!👍
There's a lovely story about the "Mind the gap" voice. Oswald Laurence was a theatre actor and lived in London with his wife, Dr Margaret McCollum, until his death in 2007. Margaret was devastated at the loss of her husband, but one place where she could relive the happy memories was on the platform at Embankment station, where she would sit and listen to Oswald’s voice. One day in November 2012, she made her regular visit to the platform only to find her husband was no longer there as the PA system had been updated. Deeply saddened by what had happened, Margaret was comforted by station staff, who were unaware of the value the previous recording held for her.
As the PA system had now been digitalized, it seemed an almost impossible ask to retrieve the tapes and reinstate the announcement with Oswald’s voice. However, Transport for London staff delved deep into the archives and found the old tapes, which were digitalized and restored. If you ever visit the Northbound platform of the Northern line at Embankment station, the voice of Oswald lives on to the present day.
That is quite beautiful.
Is it his recording that just constantly goes "MIND THE GAP, MIND THE GAP, MIND THE GAP"? I prefer that one to "mind the gap between the train and the platform".
@@karlgookey Yes, the original booming voice.
That is one of the things that made me fall in love with England. The appreciation, the care... what a heartwarming story ❤
Wow. Pearl & Dean jingle at the cinema is so nostalgic and old! Yes!
I can't hear it without thinking of the Milton Jones joke: "My parents names were Pearl and Dean, or as we called them, Mama and Papa-papa-papa-papa Papapaaah."
There used to be an audible groan whenever that came on. Years after they'd changed it the original came back once and it got a cheer.
I believe it was library music. For those who don't know Pearl and Dean are/were a company that sold pre-film slots to advertisers
Asteroid by Peter Moore, 1968.
Reminds me of that song: 'MacArthur park.'
'Whhheeeyyyy!" if you drop a glass in the pub.
Church bells, deffo. Very different to European ones.
The warning noise at a railway level crossing.
If you live in Southport (near Liverpool) the honking of the pink-footed geese flying from the inland fields to the coastal marsh every night during the season. They kept me sane while I was lying awake at boarding school, and I will be forever grateful.
For many years those geese used to fly directly over our house in Maghull on my birthday (October), without fail, whether or not they did on any other day of the year.
"Cashier number three, please."
😂 great one!
"Please remove the item from the bagging area"
"Please place the item in the bagging area"
"An assistant is coming to help you"
"Payment declined"
"Please try again"
The Post Office? I haven’t heard that one for a while since our Post Office was relocated into WHSmiths.
The BBC radio 'pips' on the hour...Big Ben chimes...the drum roll at the start of the National Anthem...Dr Who music...the sound of a Merlin engine when a Spitfire flies overhead (I'm near Beachy Head so that happens a lot)...the noise of an Underground train approaching...'Mind the Doors' and the accompanying beeps!...what have you started Alanna!
Yes, the Rolls-Royce Merlin! - "An exhaust note composed by Elgar!" - Alain de Cadanet...
A friend of mine had moved from the U.S and he said the thing that makes him know he's in England is hearing 'BOLLOCKS!' when someone messes something up 🤣
(usually dropping car keys)
😂
😂
I like making a pigs ear
53 years old, lived in England all my life, never heard someone ask a magpie how it's wife is.
I always greet magpies, have done since I was a small kid in the 70s, something I've picked up from grandparents.
Me neither and i'm 65
My parents (who where born in the 1930s) would always say 'Good morning/afternoon/evening Mr magpie we're on our way to....' and state their destination, they said it was bad luck to do otherwise.
I thought you were meant to salute them? Probably varies by region.
I'm 53 ive heard it loads
I always used to hear those birds in the morning outside my bedroom in my childhood house - I was told they're wood pigeons. I quite like them as they only really make noise when I'm awake and it's quite comforting.
Using the word 'Cinema' is also very British. Here in Canada I find it confusing when people say they are going to the theatre when they are going to watch a film, even after 27 years of living here. For me it is the sound of sea gulls that most reminds me of home in the UK.
We often don't notice how the soundscape around us is changing. The childhood sounds I remember most clearly are the rasp of a Morris Minor's exhaust on the overrun, the jingle of glass milk bottles in metal crates combined with the whine of an electric float early in the morning, the "be ready" bell ringing on a station platform to signal the approach of a train, the whistle of a shunting steam engine and squeal of loose-coupled goods wagons in the night, and the rag and bone man's cry in the street. Nowadays my local buses have a recorded voice that says "Gerroff 'ere for th'ospital".
I know what you mean. When I was very little (in the early sixties) I remember being woken at about 6.00am to the sound of the clip clop of the milkman's pony. The same with the rag and bone man who would yell out his unintelligible call for scrap metal. We even had horse drawn coal carts for a while. Then they were replaced with the whine of the electric milk float and the deep rumble of the coal lorry. But even they're gone now. So nostalgic.
Wood pigeons
@@jillybrooke29 yes.. I think they would. But should they?
lol. Blackbirds sitting on the gable of your house, chirping away.
They be Collared Doves i reckons, ms Brooke.
The way to tell the difference is that the call of collared doves has 3 'syllables' - a pigeon's call has 5 'syllables' - obviously, they're not syllables, but it's the only way I can think to describe it. They just have the same 3 or 5 syllable/beats coos over and over again.
@@Russell-w9k Correct! But, you can't beat a male blackbird aloft a tree or chimney pot singing his heart out during dusk.
Let us not forget the Shipping Forecast!
Good call!
"Aldi, Lidl, Tescoing later. That is the end of the shopping forecast" 😃
The most beautiful of all the sounds
i love the shipping forecast so soothing. Only tend to listen to it in the car usually when up early to go on holiday x
It's very handy living close to the coast of the sea areas covered in it. Even if only to know if going to be invaded by Seagulls dodging the worst of a force 8.
1 for sorrow,
2 for joy,
3 for girl and
4 for a boy,
5 for silver,
6 for gold,
7 for a secret never to be told.
Ah, Susan Stranks and Tony Bastable!
8 a wish,
9 a kiss,
10 is a bird you must not miss
- Theme song from 1970s ITV kids' show called Magpie. It was intended as a slightly hipper version of the Blue Peter style magazine show.
@@iainwasson6822
Magpie & How were great early 70's shows
8's a wish, 9's a kiss 10 is a bird you must not miss. Some people say, "Good morning Mr Magpie, how are your wife and children." I can't remember if they say afternoon if that's appropriate.
@@andrewbutler7681 Language !
Sparrows. We forget that the most common birds sing most sweetly! We are blessed to have a recurring family under the eaves.
The last orders bell in a pub.... Followed too soon after by "Time ladies and gentlemen please"😊
I Totally agree. 😁
I have heard the Pearl and Dean music at the cinema for as long as I can remember, and I am 56.
On my rare trips back to the UK, which are usually at Christmas time, waking up - especially on the first day, has a very British soundtrack of crows cawing in the trees in the garden, the irritating beeping music of BBC breakfast tv, which my mother has on a small tv in the kitchen, the loud clack that terminates the sound of an electric kettle boiling as it turns itself off, and the clatter of the letter box as the mail is delivered.
None of these are sounds that I ever hear for years on end, but are absolutely part of the British soundscape.
Yeah...the crows in the early am, cawing in the silence.
The words to the magpie rhyme were changed for the kids tv show of the same name. They made it child friendly.
I'm old enough to remember the real words which most people have either forgotten or aren't as old as me.
1 for sorrow,
2 for mirth.
3 for a death and
4 for a birth.
5 for silver,
6 for gold.
7 for a secret never to be told.
The Shipping Forecast on BBC Radio is another for me. Been around forever.
The jingle of the ice cream van !
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"When the jingles play, that means they have run out of ice cream" - Bad Parent!
Particularly Greensleeves stopping abruptly half way through a note.
Eric Morecambe looking out of the window when he hears a siren, "He won't sell many ice creams going at that speed".I
@@caw25sha Every van in every place I've ever lived in in the UK always plays bloody Greensleeves! EVERYWHERE!!
The sound of a rubber dingy being pulled up a beach and a thousand feet running in gravel.
True. Same for me. Smells and sounds - are the magic that might send you, in a heart beat, to the places you used to be living in.
I like the automated train announcements too, particular the ones on Great Northern trains with the pregnant pause in the middle of 'Welcome aboard this ... service to Cambridge' which just makes it sound totally sarcastic. For some reason, the train company name is just missing - it's been like that for years.
The sound of a kettle boiling. Magpies having a loud conversation at 5 am outside my window, in the trees. The barking of a neighbour’s dog on a quiet weekend afternoon( I like it)
Im nearly 62 and that Pearl and Deans music was played in cinemas when i was a kid
In wales I’ve not heard anyone say “good morning Mr. Magpie” however many people salute to magpies, myself included, regardless of how many are together. My brother salutes 3 timers PER magpie. Yes he looks like he’s clinically insane when passing 4 or more magpies
I'm from Wales too and have said "good morning" or "good afternoon Mr magpie, how are you today?" But not really everytime. For some reason I can't explain to myself, I have to salute a single magpie as this is bad luck or will bring sorrow if not, but I won't for 2 (for joy) etc. I wouldn't even say i am superstitious it just happens Haa 😂
Blackbirds at dawn and dusk. They're such a treat!
…..only in the Spring and early Summer unfortunately. 😁👍🏼
Church bells on a Sunday morning. The sound of frying bacon.... one more... that wave of conversation and voices that meets you as you walk into a busy local pub
Bell practice on a Tuesday evening.
@@billyhills9933 I seem to remember ours being on a Wednesday evening but I could be wrong. The church was really close though!
The whistling sound of a kettle coming to the boil
I think for me when I came back to the UK after living abroad it was church bells. Oh god - no pun intended - I hated them as a kid as my parents house was near the church and woke me up - now I love them.
Oh yes definitely church bells. All peals are different and all equally welcome at practise midweek evenings, Sunday service or weddings😊
Pearl and Dean brings back memories. When I was teen, I remember the cinema filled with teenagers singing along to Pearl and Dean, popcorn flying. I just remember crying with laughter as I had never seen anything like it before.
Saturday morning cinema:)
Yes, not heard it (until now) for about 15 years but I will remember it for my whole life!
As for why it's there, weren't they the marketing company who arranged all the ad's and trailors?
@@DarylPaterson we had local ads, the local steak house, the local fish n chips shop, which coincidently opened just as saturday morning cinema closed, the local cobblers where mum would take you to get your shoes repaired etc.
The Pearl & Dean theme brought back some memories!
Milton Jones used to joke "My grandparents are Pearl and Dean - or as we call them, Grandma and Grandpa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-papapa"
New superstitious fear unlocked. I’d never heard the magpie rhyme before.
We have a bunch of weird songs for animals in England. I still hear my Nan singing "Shoo fly, don't bother me" any time I see one.
The Magpie thing probably goes back a 1000 years. The greeting varies regionally - where I grew up it was "Good Morning Captain"
Platform Souls ( Poem on the Underground )
It’s an unloved piece of platform,
Where the punters never stand;
Each with eager expectation,
And their baggage in their hand.
For, as the train comes rushing in
And its doors swish open wide,
The travellers queue right next to them
To squeeze on for a ride.
But the platform in between the queues,
Is hardly used and bare.
Still, it stops some *Gaps* appearing -
So I’m glad that it’s ALL there !
When someone drops a plate in a pub and everyone goes “WHEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYYY” and claps
As soon as you said 'Pearl & Dean' I knew exactly what the sound was. I haven't been to the cinema for 30+ years. Brought back quite a few memories! Thank you!
That bird sound reminds me of being a teen/early 20s coming home from a night out, drunk, happy, been a good night blissfully ignorant of the rotten hangover I’m about to experience 😂 good times haha
Sounds that remind me of England is the sound of SeaGulls in the morning ( I live in Cornwall .. It's relentless but also nice )
Also what i find funny is when two people both say .. Hey ! You Alright ? ... And neither of them actually say how they are haha.
The football results on a Saturday afternoon on 5 Live. Not even a massive football fan but could listen to them forever.
My house backs onto a train station so all those announcements are burned into my brain. I hear them in my dreams.
Railway station. Seeing as how we're talking about British / English things rather than American.
Just started watching but if 'the pips' on the hour on Radio 4 isn't included I am rioting.
I don't listen to the radio 💔
@@AdventuresAndNaps blasphemy (joking, well, half joking)
... And the Big Ben bongs!
@@AdventuresAndNaps Then we need an "I listened to Radio 4 for a week" video...
@@AdventuresAndNaps I am a little disappointed Alanna that one of the sounds that reminds you of living here was not:
'Innit bruv'!
Or someone calling you a 'bint'!
I always seem to live within the sound of church bells. ATM, this includes bell ringing practice every Wednesday 7pm-9pm. Can be a pain during a hot summer with the windows open. Ah, to be in England. :)
Just be thankful you don't live near a mosque.
We get owls, wood pigeons, black birds, thrushes, even an occasional peacock and crow making rackets near my bedroom window.
Alanna, when ever I get on a train these days I'm always worried that the announcement will say " Welcome aboard, this is the South Eastern train service to Hell"🤣 . Also look up the story about the Mind the gap announcement a Embankment Tube station in London, it will bring a tear to your eye.
The cheer when someone smashes/drops a glass in a pub
@@gphill3954 "Sack The juggler" 😄
Great video Alanna! Lots of train references, that will please a certain part of your audience 😂
👀😂
I used to like the sound of the brake pumps going just before setting off on the old slammy door trains.
They went "Scrotum, scrotum, scrotum, scrotum, scrotum, scrotum, scrotummmmmmmmmm"
The hello/goodbye one is such a southern thing. Come further up north (For example I live in Stoke) and that "Hiya, you alright?" becomes "Ay up, duck yer orate?". And the "See ya later, bye, bye" becomes "See yer in a bit, duck t'ra".
🤣 Such a mix up throughout the country, but everyone would understand, at least most would. I love it.
I was in a bar recently in Wollongong and a magpie strolled in and yes, I said 'Good morning Mr Magpie how is your wife? ' Fellow drinkers thought this very strange and wanted an explanation. Apparently this bird comes in every day for lunch from the manager. Another thing we often heard when I was learning taking teeth out in Leicester Square Royal London was 'Mind the gap: stand clear of the doors please.' We would say this just as the tooth was coming out and the patient knew then that their ordeal was ending.
See a magpie when out cycling, I say 'Good morning Captain' - don't do the salute though
The song Magpie conjures up images of Susan Stranks and Jenny Hanley to me...
Nb. The most symbolic sound to me is that of English church bells. Yes, other countries have bells too, but they are hung entirely differently in continental Europe, and that means they can't be rung in the same way.
"Last orders please!" - do they even say that now? That used to be the call at 22:50 before the pubs stopped serving at 23:00.
Wasn't it "last call for alcohol"? 😁
@@priscillas.5314 It was the last orders for all drinks. At 11pm they allowed you 20 minutes to finish your drinks, then everybody had to leave as the pub was closing for the night. Some pubs did lock the doors with customers still in, and served after time illegally. This was known as a lock-in.
Our farmhouse was close to the byre ( at one time the buildings were all in a continuous line) . In winter when you came home late and drew up to the back door , on switching the car engine off you'd hear the gentle clinking of the cows chains in the byre. In summer time it would be all quite as it would still be light and they'd be out in the fields anyway.
Sail on by - the last thing on Radio 4 at night . Before you mock - Jarvis Cocker requested on Desert Island Discs.!
It's actually called "Sailing By" and was written by Ronald Binge in 1963. It's original use by the BBC was as an easily recognised station identifier for BBC Radio 4 to alert sailors that the shipping forecast was imminent.
I don't often say Hiya, but say You all right very often, or sometimes shorten it to just All right.
Also, people will call you 'dear', 'sweetheart', 'love', 'darling', and so forth.
Pearl & Dean is a company that sells cinema advertising slots to advertisers
Bless you for the sneezes
As someone born and bred in the UK I can honestly say that I NEVER heard that 'Good Morning Mr Magpie' thing until I was in my late 20's when my girlfriend of the time uttered it and I looked at her like she'd gone mad. She insisted it was a commonly used expression but, after asking around, I never found anyone else who'd heard it either...
I think it is a southern thing
@@lucylane7397 You might well be right, I grew up in the North West near Manchester, could indeed by a South thing!
I've never heard of it either and I live in the Midlands. Definitely a southern expression
I'm in the north west near Manchester too and I've known this saying all my life!
@@ShelleyNuttingnot a southern thing, it's used all over, but is quite uncommon these days.
One for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a funeral, four for a birth. That's the magpie rhyme I first knew, although I am aware there are several different ones, that's still my favourite.
There used to be a kid's programme on TV called Magpie. That is where I learned the song. Later in life I earned the nickname Magpie because I hoarded stuff.................😜
The sound of Big Ben and I don’t even live in London. 🤷♀️. I live outside Southampton. We get the occasional Spitfire fly over; all over goosebumps! Blackbirds singing in the garden on a summer evening. 😍😍😍
PS RAIN ON THE WINDOW! Will summer ever turn up🤦♀️
Re magpies, its said to bad luck for the lone Magpie as they are normally in pairs.
That cinema music takes me back 🙃 I love the sound of
Crows (my favourite bird song) lawn mowers, ice cream vans, music for ITV 10pm news (reminds me of laying bed as a child while mum and dad watched the 10pm news in the living room) theme music for Top of the pops, I'm instantly taken back to Thursday evenings in the 70s/80s
❤ I live close to the sea so get the seagulls screeching at 3.30am in the summertime 🙄
Looking at the train clip made me think of Ben Elton and “double seat, double seat, got to get a double seat “
I am also in my 50's
Wade ashore through the ripples of the piss lake
My family and I immigrated to America when I was 16, so I went back to high school (even though I had finished in England) In the school hallways everyone would say Hi as I walked by, and of course, I was saying HiYa. After a few weeks I decided to start saying Hi and I must say it was so much easier. 😁
I like the way we say “see you later” even to people we know we will never see again
The sound of Doves sounds like Wood Pigeons to me. The Magpies we have here are Eurasian Magpies. All birds have their own birdsong... which is why they used to sell vinyl record albums of birdsong .
Birds have accents, different songs in different places.
Doves are pigeons. Dove is the Saxon word, pigeon is the Old French. Same thing.
@@AutoReport1 Fair enough. I still have never heard anyone call a Wood Pigeon a Dove .
Wood Pigeons or Collared Doves are the most likely.
@@shaunw9270 They aren't the same thing, not in the way AutoReport 1 implies. They are very close and belong to the same bird family but the name dove is given to the smaller varieties and pigeon to the larger ones. So there is a difference, even if it's not much. 🙂
The children’s TV show (as mentioned in other comments) in the 1970s used to do some fund raising from their viewers and they would buy minibuses for Mencap. In the late 1980s I did some work for Mencap and drove around in a very well worn minibus with the Magpie logo on the side.
"Mind the gap" may date from 1968 but the Goon Show had a reference to "MInd the Doors" from the Underground in "The Scarlet Capsule" first broadcast on 2nd February 1959. Classic episode. 🙂
There,s a lot more to the Magpie song than you might think. The Unthanks sing "Magpie" at the BBC Folk Prom 2018
"Watcher" (coming)
"Cheerio" (going)
Both from "What cheer (news)?"
here's a song about a British bird "Blackbird" by the Beatles.
Other things like The Speaking Clock, dial 123 (not sure from a mobile) on a landline to get the exact time in the UK in an RP accent. There is a rhyme which even as old as I am still say when eating cherries. Once you are left with the discarded stones you count them by saying 'Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor, rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief.
It used to be TIM(e) or 846 I think therefore the speaking clock was called Tim.
@@caw25sha Thanks. I've just dialled it out of curiosity and it's a female voice, although I do remember a man and him saying 'The time sponsored by Accurist is...'
Here in Folkestone (Kent) it tends to be seagulls rather than doves. They are very loud and there are lots of them. The additional feature of the seagull is that they make it fairly pointless to wash your car as you can almost be guaranteed to have the little treasures drop something messy afterwards. My car is supposed to be red without the little white stripes which adorn it all the time!
Great video! For me it's not a sound but the smell of the underground, not pleasant necessarily but it's definitely "Ah yes, back in London!"
After watching this Channel for a few years - Alanna's voice now reminds me of England when I am abroad!
What about the sound of Mr and Mrs Fox having it away outside your bedroom window and thinking it was some woman getting assaulted!
The bells that used to be on small shop doors; a physical bell not some electronic chime or buzz. Haven't heard one for ages and I've bought one for my own front door instead of an electronic doorbell. It's more like the old servant's bell you'd see in Upstairs Downstairs with a bell on a coiled spring and a pull-cord.
Also milk bottles rattling in their crates as they were being delivered. Oh yeah! Skylarks! Doesn't feel like summer til you hear a skylark. And Sid James' laugh.
Honking geese flying through the night; a cricket ball hitting a bat; the Shipping Forecast; old steam trains passing by; and Scottish people saying doesn't as 'disnae' (eg "Have you seen the new Disney film?" "it disnae matter")
I visited Great Britain 15 years ago on a 21 day driving tour and fell in love with it. Sadly, I haven't been back due to ill health. What really caught my attention were the same words in England meaning something a bit different in the U.S. Dust bin for example. Not used here. I grew up in a midwestern state. A waste paper basket meant "dust bin". Garbage meant kitchen waste. Trash meant useless stuff tossed into the "garbage dump'. Trash also means litter not in a waste container. I just think so many words meaning the same but don't is interesting.
Fun fact. Our birds have regional "accents" in their song. City birds tend to have a higher pitch than country birds.
I am 70 years old and I’ve lived in many places around this country and I can honestly say I’ve never ever heard anybody say the good morning Mr magpie thing 🤷♀️
Nor me, and I'm a 53 yr old Midlander.
I always salute 1 magpie😂😂
That sound the underground makes when it's accelerating away from the station
The pearl and dean cinema theme was sampled by Goldbug in their 1996 cover version of "Whole Lotta Love", which peaked at number 3 in the UK Singles Chart and is credited with the resurgence of retro easy music in British popular culture in the 90s through to the 2000s.
QI. TY.
Definitely the Pearl and Dean intro music! Bah bah bah, bah bah bah, bah bah bah BAH!
I believe Perl & Dean are an advertising agency, and the jingle has been on in British cinemas since at least the 70's. The best bit was the post-localised ads, where there was a generic 'south east' narration with a sudden edit to a different voice for the name of the local service such as an Indian Restaurant or some-such.
I live in Essex and we always do "good morning my friend magpie good wishes to you and your family"
Also it's
1 for sorrow
2 for joy
3 for a girl
4 for a boy
5 for silver
6 for gold
7 for a secret never to be told..
My favourite thing about train travel is when you can tell that you’ve passed through an accent barrier
*(~in RP~):* “The next stop is for…” *(~Strong local accent~):* “bArNsLeY”
I get annoyed that the female voice announcing "Next stop, Luton" pronounces the town where I grew up without the "t". I don't.
Having said that, I may well be in the minority!
Pearl & Deane; bits of James Bond, bits of McArthur Park!…
You know you are truly Britishised when you sing along to the Pearl and Dean tune as you hear it!
Whoever wrote the theme tune to Farscape must have been a fan of the tune. I always wondered what it reminded me of and, listening out of context, I now realise it's the Pearl and Dean music :)
Ladybird, Ladybird, fly away home!
Oh yes Pearl and Dean, it was so wholesome and brilliant being able to go the cinema after lockdown and hearing that jingle again. I don’t even know what Pearl and Dean do, but you know the lights are about to go down for 2hrs and you’re ready for the film❤️
Pearl & Dean was spot on! Been hearing it since the early 60s, and yes, it says 'Cinema' to me! Great episode!
1:03 so you just thought "I wouldn't hear that anywhere else on Earth" , "that puts me right here in England", and it kicked off the other sounds.👍