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Northern England. To those of the metropolitan southeast in particular, it's a strange and alien place full of salt-of-the-earth lower-class types who talk foonae, notable only for football, pop music, and flat caps. To some Londoners, this is more or less anywhere north of the M25, the motorway surrounding Greater London, forgetting about The Midlands.note Another popular informal boundary between the North and South (with The Midlands again being lumped in with the North) is an imaginary line drawn from the Wash to the Bristol channel. Northerners, however, draw it from the Humber Estuary to the Dee Estuary, excluding the unloved Midlands which are lumped in with the South. Some slightly kinder Northerners use the "Mansfield/Hucknall" - both of these places are in Nottinghamshire - rule which says that Mansfield is in the North, Hucknall is in the South, and the border is somewhere vaguely between the two Geographically, the North is usually classed as comprising the counties of Yorkshire, Lancashire, Merseyside (including Liverpool), Durham, Northumberland, Tyne & Wear, Cumbria, and parts of Lincolnshire and Derbyshire, Greater Manchester and some parts of Cheshire. The ITV regions Oop North are Granada, Border, Tyne Tees, and Yorkshire. It's less crowded than southern England, though not half as rich or full of TV bosses.note Though thanks to a concerted effort by the BBC (and other media organizations such as ITV) to relocate a large chunk of its resources to Salford and Manchester, this is beginning to change. The media sometimes portray it as a stereotypical place of urban deprivation, coal mines, and men in flat caps. Expect stories about working-class struggle, unemployment, crime, alcoholism, wife beating, and old men having humorous adventures. There may well be trouble at t'mill. The setting of many a Kitchen Sink Drama. Northerners are sometimes held in the same low regard as Australians and Texans for being too loud, proud, and generally insufferable, like in At Last the 1948 Show's Four Yorkshiremen sketch. But surveys have shown that Northern accents (particularly Yorkshire) are thought to be the most "trustworthy", thanks to the no-nonsense stereotype. Just as in the South, urban regions — and especially factory or mining towns — of the North of England often vocally support the Labour Party, especially concerning trade unions (think of all those coal mines, steel mills, and so on). Express praise for Margaret Thatcher at your own risk.note However, Labour's support is less prominent than it used to be, many of the same mining areas whose jobs she took away have started voting for the Conservatives, especially after Brexit which somewhat changed England's political geography, due to a lot of traditionally Labour areas being very supportive of Brexit, even though ironically economic assessments have shown they'll be among the people worst-hit by Brexit. As noted above, British TV creators largely don't live in the north, but many grew up there and remember the north-south divide in those days, which is likely why the trope persists on British TV. It's important to remember, however, that this only applies to urban and industrial areas: rural areas of the North in counties like Yorkshire have always been some of the safest Conservative constituencies in the country (eg Harrogate). The trope name reflects a northern pronunciation of "up North" in the phrase is "Ee, it's grim oop North".note Incidentally, "ee" sounds like a cross between "aye" and "hey" and "oop" rhymes internally with "foot" not "soup" While living Oop North certainly isn't fun, it should not be confused with Grim Up North. Not to be confused with the American counterpart, Ap Nort'. (Not least because, in the US, many of the stereotypes associated with Northern England are instead spread out between Appalachia and a different part of the Midwest, known as the "Rust Belt".) |
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Lucky Jim: Jim hails from Northern England, and sometimes affects a Northern accent when he's trying to make people like him, playing on the stereotype that the accent is trustworthy. | |
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Father Peter Clifford from Ballykissangel is a Manchester native transplanted to Ireland. | |
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The Damned United, based as it is on the true story of Brian Clough's management of Leeds United in The '70s. | |
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In A Hard Day's Night, Ringo skips out of the studio to roam London on his own - when a policeman shouts at him for hurling a brick in the river he shouts back "Southerner!". Meanwhile, the band's manager frets on Ringo's potential misdeeds, what with his being "released on the unsuspecting South". | |
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Several of the stories in Viz, as the comic originated in Newcastle; most notably the character of Sid The Sexist. | |
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Sheepridge, birthplace of Dick Simnel in Raising Steam: he and his mother speak in Northern dialect. | |
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Scary Go Round is set in the fictional town of Tackleford in West Yorkshire. That it has a seafront despite West Yorkshire being landlocked can be put down to Rule of Funny. | |
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Coupling. Though Jeffery is supposedly Welsh, Richard Coyle is from Sheffield, and his Northern accent becomes more noticeable in later series. | |
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Badger was set in Northumberland (about as far Oop North as you can get). | |
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Brass. Parodies the trope to within an inch of its life sending up a number of northern stereotypes and genres. Including Agatha Christie, D.H. Lawrence, Brideshead Revisited, working class vs ruling class, and so on. | |
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"The Northlands" (north of Mossflower) in Brian Jacques' Redwall series. | |
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Pioneering 1960s and 1970s police drama Z Cars is set in a fictional division of the Lancashire Constabulary. | |
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Hard Times is set up north. This being Charles Dickens of course, an author who was about as Northern as Mick Jagger, it's believed he had to look up the dialect in a book to make sure he got the Lancashire accent and slang right. Only the poor, uneducated people spoke this way though. | |
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The Likely Lads, a pair of Geordies.note Though they were played by two northerners, neither were Geordies - Rodney Bewes was a Yorkshire native, while James Bolam grew up in Sunderland. Also the sequel, Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads? | |
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Wolfwalkers is set in Ireland, but Robyn and her father Bill are from England and they both have Northern accents (Sean Bean uses his native Sheffield accent as Bill). It fits with their portrayal as working-class citizens trying to get by under the Lord Protector's strict rule, and their Northern accents also set them apart from the Lord Protector's Received Pronunciation. | |
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From Bloodborne, we have Eileen the Crow, who speaks in this accent in the English audio. She's from outside Yharnam, originating from an unspecified region called "the hinterlands". Given that all native Yharnamites have southern English accents (even though the architecture, names, and so on are based on Czech and Austrian cities), it conveys that she's from a close but distinct area with more of a rural flavour. | |
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Claude Rains from Heroes is from Blackpool, according to the show's PrimaTech Files website, but he has Christopher Eccleston's Salford accent. Eccleston is like the poster boy for this trope. | |
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Whistle Down the Wind depicts both the rural and urban North. Both are rather depressing. |
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Years and Years is set in Manchester, with filming having taken place there. A subplot also involves some of the characters visiting Liverpool. | |
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Dan Dare's batman Digby hails from Wigan. Dan himself is from Manchester. | |
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In Beneath a Steel Sky, the mechanic that the player meets at the start of the game originally had a Yorkshire accent, but this was changed for the final release as US playtesters couldn't understand what he was saying. The factory owner Lamb, though, still has a Yorkshire accent that's happily very apparent even in the text version. | |
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Car Share is very vaguely set in and around Manchester. People recognising the streets and roads travelled by two people going to and from work have said it looks like one Hell of a commute. | |
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Jack Staff is set in Castleford, Yorkshire. | |
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YUNGBLUD, from Doncaster, South Yorkshire. | |
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24-Hour Party People, the semi-fictional account of Manchester's Factory Records and that city's regeneration. Also Control, the Ian Curtis biopic, which was naturally filmed in a lot of the same places. |
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Gentleman Jack is set in Regency-era Halifax and the surrounding country. | |
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Brassed Off concerns the (fictional) Grimley Colliery Band, from a (fictional) area of The North. The plot deals with a brass band (very Northern) made up of miners (also quite Northern) being made redundant (again, Northern) by the managers (definitely Southern, from the one example seen on screen). | |
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All Creatures Great And Small and its remake, plus any other versions of James Herriot's books. NB this is the rural north so there are some differences. | |
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Frankie Goes to Hollywood, also from Liverpool. | |
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Lucy Baker from Layton Brothers: Mystery Room seems to be from Yorkshire. | |
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Also Control, the Ian Curtis biopic, which was naturally filmed in a lot of the same places. | |
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Brookside, a Soap Opera about a housing estate in Liverpool (filmed in a purpose-built housing estate, in Liverpool) | |
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Ed Sheeran, born in Halifax, West Yorkshire, but raised further south in Framlingham, Suffolk. | |
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Kinky Boots is set in Northampton, played as the boring, bankrupt small town representing the endangered values of Charlie's father, and which the fashionable fiancée desperately tries to leave or convert to flats. While the people are very nice, they're a bit small-minded about their new co-worker, a drag queen from London. Strange really, as Northampton is about as midland as you can get. It's actually less than a hundred miles from London. There's even an argument about it. |
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Mrs. Whitlow, the indefatigable housekeeper of the Unseen University in Discworld is implied to have this accent. Though she usually puts on what she thinks is a "posh" accent when talking to the wizards. Lancre is partly based on rural Lancashire (with added geographynote whereas Lancashire is rugged and hilly by the standards of England, Lancre is set in the Discworld equivalent of the Himalayas), a county known for its witches. Terry Pratchett used some names from historic witch trials for some of the Lancre witches. Aspects of Lancre appear to be Homage to the rural Cheshire of Alan Garner: The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and its sequels are set in the north-east of the county, where the Cheshire Plain (The Chalk) becomes the remote foothills of the Pennines (Lancre) and deal with the magical and mystical lore of the area. Sheepridge, birthplace of Dick Simnel in Raising Steam: he and his mother speak in Northern dialect. |
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Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps is set in Runcorn in Cheshire. | |
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Oop North | |
Oop North / int_49a88442 | comment |
In Final Fantasy XIV, Ala Mhigan characters are given Northern accents to distinguish them from The Queen's Latin found elsewhere in Eorzea. Ala Mhigo is also the focus of much of Garlean tyranny, which has decimated their culture and economy. Additionally, Ala Mhigo's main industries (which have been devastated by Garlean rule) are mining and quarrying. | |
Oop North / int_49a88442 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Oop North / int_49a88442 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Final Fantasy XIV (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Oop North / int_49a88442 | |
Oop North / int_4b434423 | type |
Oop North | |
Oop North / int_4b434423 | comment |
In Pokémon Sword and Shield, it's implied that characters from Spikemuth (like the members of Team Yell, Piers and Marnie) have a Northern accent. Spikemuth appears to be a Dying Town, complete with shuttered-up buildings, trash-filled streets, and populated almost entirely by the games' villain team. | |
Oop North / int_4b434423 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Oop North / int_4b434423 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pokémon Sword and Shield (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Oop North / int_4b434423 | |
Oop North / int_4d23c | type |
Oop North | |
Oop North / int_4d23c | comment |
Waterloo Road is set in Rochdale, a town that is part of Greater Manchester. Or Lancashire if you ask the locals. | |
Oop North / int_4d23c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Oop North / int_4d23c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Waterloo Road | hasFeature |
Oop North / int_4d23c | |
Oop North / int_4e433e78 | type |
Oop North | |
Oop North / int_4e433e78 | comment |
In Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the same Python, Yorkshire native Michael Palin, deliberately plays the King of Swamp Castle as a grasping, avaricious Northern stereotype, complete with broad accent. | |
Oop North / int_4e433e78 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Oop North / int_4e433e78 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Monty Python and the Holy Grail | hasFeature |
Oop North / int_4e433e78 | |
Oop North / int_4f61b4c6 | type |
Oop North | |
Oop North / int_4f61b4c6 | comment |
Sam Fender from North Shields (near Newcastle) sings in his native Geordie accent, and writes from the perspective of growing up in a working-class Northern neighbourhood. | |
Oop North / int_4f61b4c6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Oop North / int_4f61b4c6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Sam Fender (Music) | hasFeature |
Oop North / int_4f61b4c6 | |
Oop North / int_4fedc167 | type |
Oop North | |
Oop North / int_4fedc167 | comment |
FairyTale: A True Story is based on the Cottingley Fairies case, which naturally means the majority of it takes place in Yorkshire. | |
Oop North / int_4fedc167 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Oop North / int_4fedc167 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FairyTale: A True Story | hasFeature |
Oop North / int_4fedc167 | |
Oop North / int_5016e2a7 | type |
Oop North | |
Oop North / int_5016e2a7 | comment |
The Sarah Caudwell novel The Sibyl in her Grave features a bank director with a very pronounced Lancashire accent, which is commented on numerous times by various people. Most of them talk about how remarkable it is he's risen to his prominent position what with the disadvantages he must have had. The gentleman is actually very well educated with a First from Oxford and quite capable of speaking with a Southern accent, but found that other Englishmen were more inclined to trust him with the Northern accent. Then he kept it and started exaggerating it - and the "provincial Northerner" persona - to make fun of a snobbish coworker he particularly disliked, but no one ever realised it was a joke. | |
Oop North / int_5016e2a7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Oop North / int_5016e2a7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hilary Tamar | hasFeature |
Oop North / int_5016e2a7 | |
Oop North / int_503c05af | type |
Oop North | |
Oop North / int_503c05af | comment |
In the Flesh is set in the fictional town of Roarton, Lancashire. | |
Oop North / int_503c05af | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Oop North / int_503c05af | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
In the Flesh | hasFeature |
Oop North / int_503c05af | |
Oop North / int_514a6627 | type |
Oop North | |
Oop North / int_514a6627 | comment |
Soft Cell formed in Leeds in the late 1970s when Marc Almond and David Ball were students at what was then the local polytechnic. note Now renamed Leeds Metropolitan University. | |
Oop North / int_514a6627 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Oop North / int_514a6627 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Soft Cell (Music) | hasFeature |
Oop North / int_514a6627 | |
Oop North / int_5320ab5e | type |
Oop North | |
Oop North / int_5320ab5e | comment |
The Columbo episode "Etude in Black" features a Northern English car mechanic living in Hollywood and specialising in foreign and classic cars. John Cassavetes plays the murderer of the week and invokes stereotypes by patronisingly addressing the mechanic in the "What ho, old chap! Don't you know?"-type drawl characteristic of an American actor having trouble with a British accent. | |
Oop North / int_5320ab5e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Oop North / int_5320ab5e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Columbo | hasFeature |
Oop North / int_5320ab5e | |
Oop North / int_55a75640 | type |
Oop North | |
Oop North / int_55a75640 | comment |
Inspector George Gently is in North East England, centring on Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland and County Durham. Gently himself is a transplanted Londoner, but most of the rest of cast sport Northern accents. | |
Oop North / int_55a75640 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Oop North / int_55a75640 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Inspector George Gently | hasFeature |
Oop North / int_55a75640 | |
Oop North / int_57f118d6 | type |
Oop North | |
Oop North / int_57f118d6 | comment |
The Kaiser Chiefs are from Leeds. | |
Oop North / int_57f118d6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Oop North / int_57f118d6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Kaiser Chiefs (Music) | hasFeature |
Oop North / int_57f118d6 | |
Oop North / int_585e589f | type |
Oop North | |
Oop North / int_585e589f | comment |
Kes, written by a man from Barnsley, South Yorkshire, is set there. True to form, everyone speaks Tyke, wears a flat cap and the place is crapsack. With the possible exception of flat caps... Truth in T.V. |
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Oop North / int_585e589f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Oop North / int_585e589f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Kes | hasFeature |
Oop North / int_585e589f | |
Oop North / int_5908ee91 | type |
Oop North | |
Oop North / int_5908ee91 | comment |
In The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, the Dunmer (Dark Elves) tend towards Northern English accents, presumably due to the connotations of cynicism and general working-class-ness, although there are a few Cockney voice actors in there for the same reason. Taken to a surreal extreme with Raven Rock's Lancastrian guard captain in the Dragonborn DLC. | |
Oop North / int_5908ee91 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Oop North / int_5908ee91 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Oop North / int_5908ee91 | |
Oop North / int_593cb16d | type |
Oop North | |
Oop North / int_593cb16d | comment |
The Plague Dogs, a Darker and Grittier sequel (book and film) to Richard Adams' Watership Down, is set in England's Lake District. | |
Oop North / int_593cb16d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Oop North / int_593cb16d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Plague Dogs | hasFeature |
Oop North / int_593cb16d | |
Oop North / int_5bab9c7d | type |
Oop North | |
Oop North / int_5bab9c7d | comment |
Mokera from Helios Eclipse. | |
Oop North / int_5bab9c7d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Oop North / int_5bab9c7d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Helios Eclipse (Manga) | hasFeature |
Oop North / int_5bab9c7d | |
Oop North / int_5d06bc89 | type |
Oop North | |
Oop North / int_5d06bc89 | comment |
The miniseries Our Friends in the North was about four friends from Newcastle, including Christopher Eccleston (again, though playing a northerner from a different region) and Gina McKee (who is actually from there). Newcastle is portrayed in the series as grim, but to be fair London is portrayed as being, if not quite as grim, one hell of a lot sleazier and more dangerous. | |
Oop North / int_5d06bc89 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Oop North / int_5d06bc89 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Our Friends in the North | hasFeature |
Oop North / int_5d06bc89 | |
Oop North / int_5d354f8 | type |
Oop North | |
Oop North / int_5d354f8 | comment |
David Lister from Red Dwarf is from Liverpool (as is the actor who portrays him, Craig Charles). | |
Oop North / int_5d354f8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Oop North / int_5d354f8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Red Dwarf | hasFeature |
Oop North / int_5d354f8 | |
Oop North / int_5ea5d855 | type |
Oop North | |
Oop North / int_5ea5d855 | comment |
Watch Ross - given that Ross Grant is a Manchester native and the episodes follow him going about his day in the city. As he's an actor and voiceover artist, the vlogs show a lot of the film and television industry there - including guests from Hollyoaks, Emmerdale and Coronation Street. | |
Oop North / int_5ea5d855 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Oop North / int_5ea5d855 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Watch Ross (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Oop North / int_5ea5d855 | |
Oop North / int_61d4e874 | type |
Oop North | |
Oop North / int_61d4e874 | comment |
Many characters in Conker's Bad Fur Day, like Mr. Cog who when turned upside down becomes southern. And camp. | |
Oop North / int_61d4e874 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Oop North / int_61d4e874 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Conker's Bad Fur Day (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Oop North / int_61d4e874 | |
Oop North / int_629cd094 | type |
Oop North | |
Oop North / int_629cd094 | comment |
In Dragon Age: Origins (or at least its expansion, Awakening), Amaranthine seems to be home to more northern characters than the rest of Ferelden and is fittingly located in the North of that country. Like Yorkshire (known occasionally to its locals as God's County) it's seen hard times but is also valued as a jewel of northern Ferelden. | |
Oop North / int_629cd094 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Oop North / int_629cd094 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Dragon Age: Origins (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Oop North / int_629cd094 | |
Oop North / int_64093163 | type |
Oop North | |
Oop North / int_64093163 | comment |
PAYDAY: The Heist and its sequel give us James "Hoxton" Hoxworth, a crude lewd, violent, foul-mouthed thug with an extra-thick Yorkshire accent and a lower-class upbringing in Sheffield. | |
Oop North / int_64093163 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Oop North / int_64093163 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
PAYDAY: The Heist (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Oop North / int_64093163 | |
Oop North / int_64dc9897 | type |
Oop North | |
Oop North / int_64dc9897 | comment |
The Pilgrimage of Grace in Season 3 of The Tudors...the differences in accents between the rebels and the Powers That Be down south were striking. Also helps illustrate how old this trope is too. | |
Oop North / int_64dc9897 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Oop North / int_64dc9897 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Tudors | hasFeature |
Oop North / int_64dc9897 | |
Oop North / int_6572f71e | type |
Oop North | |
Oop North / int_6572f71e | comment |
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell references the North-South rivalry by having the North ruled by a king of the Land of Faerie and only conditionally united with the South until his return. | |
Oop North / int_6572f71e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Oop North / int_6572f71e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell | hasFeature |
Oop North / int_6572f71e | |
Oop North / int_6664e2f7 | type |
Oop North | |
Oop North / int_6664e2f7 | comment |
Queer as Folk (UK) was set in Manchester, around the Canal St area. | |
Oop North / int_6664e2f7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Oop North / int_6664e2f7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Queer as Folk (UK) | hasFeature |
Oop North / int_6664e2f7 | |
Oop North / int_68198b8c | type |
Oop North | |
Oop North / int_68198b8c | comment |
The Stranger Times takes place in Manchester. The industrial history of the city is a recurring feature of the narration. | |
Oop North / int_68198b8c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Oop North / int_68198b8c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Stranger Times | hasFeature |
Oop North / int_68198b8c | |
Oop North / int_69e5a831 | type |
Oop North | |
Oop North / int_69e5a831 | comment |
The very funny comics of Bill Tidy, most notably The Fosdyke Saga (which used to appear in the Daily Mirror) and The Cloggies (in Private Eye) were firmly based Up North. The Cloggies obviously was a team of clog-dancers, while The Fosdyke Saga told the story of the Fosdykes, a Lancashire family who by a stroke of luck inherited Salford's biggest tripeworks and took place between the turn of the century and the 1930s; usually Sir Jos Fosdyke's three sons were busy travelling around the world on various tripe-related quests and stunts. A successor strip The Last Chip Shop in England documented the Resistance movement against fast food which, in a dystopic Britain, was trying to drive all the competition out of existence. the fast-food Corporation was a double Shout-Out against both Americanised fast-food chains, and a Southern government colluding with them to drive Northern tradition into extinction. |
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Oop North / int_69e5a831 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Oop North / int_69e5a831 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Fosdyke Saga (Comic Strip) | hasFeature |
Oop North / int_69e5a831 | |
Oop North / int_6abf16c2 | type |
Oop North | |
Oop North / int_6abf16c2 | comment |
Big Finish Doctor Who: The Eighth Doctor's companion Lucie is from Blackpool. | |
Oop North / int_6abf16c2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Oop North / int_6abf16c2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Big Finish Doctor Who (Audio Play) | hasFeature |
Oop North / int_6abf16c2 | |
Oop North / int_6ad790d3 | type |
Oop North | |
Oop North / int_6ad790d3 | comment |
Jeremy Clarkson of Top Gear (UK) is from Doncaster, but went native as a southerner and rarely brings out his original accent. The phenomenon of "more northern than thi" (as in Good Omens above) was also referenced in the Polar Special, as they approached the magnetic north pole: Whether he had any 'original' accent at all. More upper-middle-class people tend to have quite neutral accents fairly similar to what Clarkson has now. For example, Michael Palin is from Sheffield but doesn't have any kind of stereotype "northern" accent (although, like Clarkson, he does a good impression of that accent). Or think of Jessica Jane Clement from The Real Hustle...(ok, you can stop thinking now), who has a bit of a Yorkshire accent at times. Then Christopher Eccleston shows up as a Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car, and the two have a brief discussion about who's more Northern. From series 27, the presenting lineup contains Paddy McGuinness, who is from Bolton, and Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff from Preston. Both have heavy northern accents, which can sometimes make them difficult to understand for viewers not familiar with their accents. |
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Oop North / int_6ad790d3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Oop North / int_6ad790d3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Top Gear (UK) | hasFeature |
Oop North / int_6ad790d3 | |
Oop North / int_6cb2d709 | type |
Oop North | |
Oop North / int_6cb2d709 | comment |
Harry Potter: In the sixth book, Spinner's End is in the north, around 200 miles from London; the descriptions are evocative of old textile towns like Rochdale, Stockport, Brighouse, and Halifax. Which side of the Pennines it's on is a matter of debate, with equally convincing arguments. An essay on the Harry Potter Lexicon by Claire M. Jordan states: "Of these locations, the Manchester/Salford area is probably the most likely." In the movies, Snape speaks with a West London accent - because Alan Rickman was originally from Hammersmith, so that can't be used to prove or disprove this theory. Another Lexicon essay asserts that based on the details given in the books, Neville Longbottom and his relatives appear to be from Lancashire. In the UK audiobooks, Stephen Fry gives Nymphadora Tonks a strong Yorkshire accent, probably drawing from her use of "wotcher". All of which leads to a certain Fridge Logic: if all wizards spend their early adolescence at the same boarding school, they should all have the same accent. This was part of the point of boarding school for the British well-to-do in the nineteenth century. (Yes, even if they're originally from Ireland, Scotland, or Yorkshire.) |
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Oop North / int_6cb2d709 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Oop North / int_6cb2d709 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Harry Potter (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Oop North / int_6cb2d709 | |
Oop North / int_6d1e3c97 | type |
Oop North | |
Oop North / int_6d1e3c97 | comment |
The moors where the werewolf appears in An American Werewolf in London. And apparently, no hospitals until you go hundreds of miles down south to London. Oh there were plenty, the hard part was finding pretty nurses with a deep interest in strange, hairy men. |
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Oop North / int_6d1e3c97 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Oop North / int_6d1e3c97 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
An American Werewolf in London | hasFeature |
Oop North / int_6d1e3c97 | |
Oop North / int_6d27b424 | type |
Oop North | |
Oop North / int_6d27b424 | comment |
In the 1989 TV mockumentary Norbert Smith: A Life, the actor being profiled, Norbert Smith (played by Harry Enfield) appears in a kitchen-sink drama entitled It's Grim Up North, which runs through just about every cliché of the council-estate/Angry Young Man dramas of the period, including out-of-wedlock pregnancy, bitter family rowing, women in headscarves, and ugly flowered wallpaper. | |
Oop North / int_6d27b424 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Oop North / int_6d27b424 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Mockumentary | hasFeature |
Oop North / int_6d27b424 | |
Oop North / int_6e613de1 | type |
Oop North | |
Oop North / int_6e613de1 | comment |
Andy Capp — and his granddaughter Mandy Capp — are from the North-East. Andy has evolved since the 1950s as the archetypical Geordie ne'er-do-well. His son Buster Capp was for a time the lead feature in a children's comic (Buster was created for the eponymous comic; Andy and Flo did occasional cameo parts). It is implied that Buster grew up and married, as the third generation of the Capp family is attitudinal single mother Mandy, whose exploits are now a Daily Mirror comic strip. Mandy has children... | |
Oop North / int_6e613de1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Oop North / int_6e613de1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Andy Capp (Comic Strip) | hasFeature |
Oop North / int_6e613de1 | |
Oop North / int_6eed44ab | type |
Oop North | |
Oop North / int_6eed44ab | comment |
Parodied ruthlessly in Dead Ringers. | |
Oop North / int_6eed44ab | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Oop North / int_6eed44ab | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Dead Ringers | hasFeature |
Oop North / int_6eed44ab | |
Oop North / int_72a1ac51 | type |
Oop North | |
Oop North / int_72a1ac51 | comment |
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas features Shaun Ryder of the Happy Mondays voicing Maccer, a Salfordian musician who is the embodiment of the Madchester music scenenote the game was set in 1992, by which time the Madchester genre had peaked and mentions Manchester and Salford at every other opportunity upon his first encounter. | |
Oop North / int_72a1ac51 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Oop North / int_72a1ac51 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Oop North / int_72a1ac51 | |
Oop North / int_73660c17 | type |
Oop North | |
Oop North / int_73660c17 | comment |
Four Lions is set and filmed mostly in Sheffield. Omar works as a security guard at Meadowhall. The hospital scene is the main entrance of the Northern General Hospital. | |
Oop North / int_73660c17 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Oop North / int_73660c17 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Four Lions | hasFeature |
Oop North / int_73660c17 | |
Oop North / int_739e1887 | type |
Oop North | |
Oop North / int_739e1887 | comment |
Distant Voices, Still Lives follows a working-class Liverpool family with an abusive, rage-filled father throughout the 1940s and 1950s. It's not entirely clear what the father does for a living, although in one scene he's washing a horse, and his children are nearly killed in a 1940 German bombing raid when they're out selling bundles of kindling. | |
Oop North / int_739e1887 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Oop North / int_739e1887 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Distant Voices, Still Lives | hasFeature |
Oop North / int_739e1887 | |
Oop North / int_7504c972 | type |
Oop North | |
Oop North / int_7504c972 | comment |
Tony Hill and Carol Jordan: All the novels are set in a fictional Northern city, Bradfield. | |
Oop North / int_7504c972 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Oop North / int_7504c972 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Tony Hill and Carol Jordan | hasFeature |
Oop North / int_7504c972 | |
Oop North / int_766418fa | type |
Oop North | |
Oop North / int_766418fa | comment |
The Lakes is really set Oop North - the Lake District of Cumbria is about as far Oop North as you can get in England before you start seeing people in kilts. This drama-mystery revolved around sexual and violent goings-on under the surface of a rural lakeside community. | |
Oop North / int_766418fa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Oop North / int_766418fa | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Lakes | hasFeature |
Oop North / int_766418fa | |
Oop North / int_78a7f8ff | type |
Oop North | |
Oop North / int_78a7f8ff | comment |
Open All Hours, about a miserly shopkeeper, also set in Yorkshire (although Ronnie Barker, from Bedfordshire, and David Jason from London provide very unconvincing Yorkshire accents). | |
Oop North / int_78a7f8ff | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Oop North / int_78a7f8ff | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Open All Hours | hasFeature |
Oop North / int_78a7f8ff | |
Oop North / int_79502c29 | type |
Oop North | |
Oop North / int_79502c29 | comment |
Wendy in Ladies In Waiting comes from Durham, wears a flat cap, and speaks in such a thick North East accent that other characters can have trouble understanding her. | |
Oop North / int_79502c29 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Oop North / int_79502c29 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Ladies In Waiting (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Oop North / int_79502c29 | |
Oop North / int_7b0dba33 | type |
Oop North | |
Oop North / int_7b0dba33 | comment |
Where the Blake sisters in A Pearl for My Mistress hail from. Neither is overjoyed by it. | |
Oop North / int_7b0dba33 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Oop North / int_7b0dba33 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
A Pearl for My Mistress | hasFeature |
Oop North / int_7b0dba33 | |
Oop North / int_7c48915b | type |
Oop North | |
Oop North / int_7c48915b | comment |
In Gunnerkrigg Court, Annie's mother Surma is from Yorkshire. | |
Oop North / int_7c48915b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Oop North / int_7c48915b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Oop North / int_7c48915b | |
Oop North / int_7d07c9d2 | type |
Oop North | |
Oop North / int_7d07c9d2 | comment |
Louis Tomlinson of One Direction hails from Doncaster, while former member Zayn Malik comes from Bradford. Harry Styles grew up in Cheshire. | |
Oop North / int_7d07c9d2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Oop North / int_7d07c9d2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Louis Tomlinson (Music) | hasFeature |
Oop North / int_7d07c9d2 | |
Oop North / int_7d5e43b0 | type |
Oop North | |
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Bill Oddie of The Goodies, born in Rochdale (a satellite town of Manchester), would often play up his Northernness, for instance in the episode where he introduced the world to Ecky Thump, the Lancashire art of self-defence (consisting of hitting people over the head with a black pudding). There's also this bit from the I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again version of Othello: Tim Brooke-Taylor, the personification of an upper-class soft southern Nellie in the Goodies, is also (just about) from Oop North: his family still run the Brooke-Taylor legal practice in Buxton, Derbyshire (a place which is pretty much at the otherwise ill-defined southern border of "the North". Shading into the Midlands places like Glossop and Buxton just about squeak in. But Leek and Derby, just down the road, are unanimously considered as being in the Midlands). |
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The Mighty Boosh: Despite his attempts to appear more exotic, Howard Moon is "clearly from Leeds". He's occasionally described as Northern in an insulting tone, or it's said that it's the origin of his unsophisticated behaviour, despite the fact that Howard is an upright, mild-mannered kind of guy. When he gets drunk, he apparently throws ladies in his 'wheelbarra— come on, ye dirty vixen, ye know ye want it.' Julian Barratt, the actor who plays Howard, is also from Leeds. | |
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Emmerdale, a Soap Opera about people in rural Yorkshire (and filmed in Yorkshire!)... | |
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Clifford and Mrs. Basket from The Last of the Baskets come from Northern England and fit all the lower-class stereotypes of Northerners, much to the irritation of their stuffy butler, Bodkin. | |
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Parodied on A Bit of Fry and Laurie, with a Northerner (Hugh Laurie) who is determined to prove to a Londoner (Stephen Fry) that the North is actually quite civilized, thank you very much. This prompts the Londoner to mess with him by claiming that Londoners have developed eternal life by drinking petrol. | |
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Although Wuthering Heights is set in the North and most of the characters were born and lived their lives there, the character of Joseph is significant in that he's written with a thick and an almost impenetrable Yorkshire accent (that contains several words and turns of language that today no longer exist) that no other character in the novel shares. | |
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The protagonist Keith T Maxwell of the IOS game Galaxy on Fire speaks with a noticeable Liverpudlian accent. | |
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Cabaret Voltaire, from Sheffield. | |
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FreakAngels has the Mancunian Alice who definitely qualifies for loud and proud and is a sister of gunrunners. | |
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Abigail Thorn of Philosophy Tube is from Newcasle upon Tyne. | |
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Coronation Street, a very long-running Soap Opera about working-class people set and filmed in (Greater) Manchester... | |
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Several of the comedians from Taskmaster have been from the North and have endured mild teasing about their accents, including Chris Ramsey, Sarah Millican (who are actually from the same town), Jon Richardson, and Lee Mack. Chris Ramsey intentionally turned this to advantage in a prize task to bring in the item that sounds the funniest when you say it over and over, by contributing a "coukbouk." | |
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Last Tango in Halifax is set in and around Halifax and Harrogate in Yorkshire. | |
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Both Martha Costello, the main character of Silk, and her trainee, Nick Slade, are from the north, although it's never specified where. They're frequently pitted against Martha's rival, who comes from Cambridge, and his trainee, the daughter of a London judge. | |
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Vera is set in Northumberland, and central character Vera Stanhope has a strong northern accent and the Verbal Tic of referring to everyone as 'pet'. | |
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Billy Elliot, a story about a young Northern boy who takes up ballet and tries to hide it from his gruff father. It turns out that, although other men in the town have a problem with men doing ballet, his father is just glad his son has found a way to avoid spending his life working in a coal mine like he did. | |
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In the English dub of Xenoblade Chronicles 2, people from the Leftherian Archipelago speak with Northern Englander accents, including main protagonist Rex. Leftheria is shown to have a slightly more humble and rural culture than other nations. | |
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Doing It Right This Time: Mari Makinami (who's a bit of an O.C. Stand-in) turns out to be from Liverpool. | |
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The Brittas Empire: Whilst the show takes in the fictional Southern town of Whitbury, Colin has a strong Geordie accent and Julie is stated to be from the North. Julie's Northerner status actually comes back to bite her when she falls in love with a Conservative Southerner called Alex and encounters a cultural clash, to the point that she eventually throws him out for attempting to give her elocution lessons. | |
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Greg Holgate, a.k.a. The Stupendium, is a Londoner themselves, but in their Animal Crossing: New Horizons music videos, they voice Tom Nook with a Northern accent. At the end of "Nook, Line, & Sinker" they lampshade this by saying, "Tom Nook here; yes, yes, I'm from Yorkshire, don't question it." | |
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On Chef! (1993), Cyril was an uncultured Northerner. His finishing school-educated daughter Renee, however, spoke with a really posh accent. Lenny Henry's character mocked both Cyril for having a Northern accent and Renee for not having one. | |
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Mister Winterbottom in Dinner for One is a stereotypical Northerner (with a stereotypically Northern name). | |
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Enter the Farside is set in Manchester and the main character, Shaun, comes from Staffordshire. It's assumed he has a Stoke accent, though it's never been mentioned explicitly. | |
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While their earlier albums such as Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not and Favourite Worst Nightmare especially feature Turner's Sheffield accent, their newer albums such as AM have Alex Turner singing more clearly in an American accent (influenced by his decision to move from Sheffield to Los Angeles). | |
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Michael from I'm Alan Partridge is Geordie. The actor playing him is not but nails the very, very specific accent. | |
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Harold Larwood the infamous Bodyline bowler | |
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Comedienne Diane Morgan from Mock the Week and talking head "Philomena Cunk" on Screenwipe is from Bolton and has quite a thick Bolton accent. | |
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Jamie from The Haunting of Bly Manor is from somewhere around Yorkshire, her father was a coal miner, and she is a rough-around-the-edges gardener working on the grounds of the titular manor. The identity of the unnamed narrator as Jamie herself are given away by both characters' (approximately, in the case of Carla Gugino's half of the character) Northern accents. | |
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The original UK version of Shameless (UK) is set in the fictional council estate Chatsworth in Stretford, Greater Manchester. | |
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Sgt. Shadwell of Good Omens is in some ways a very sour Northerner, resentful of Southern England. Unfortunately, his accent makes him completely impossible to place, and he has accused Scots of being Southerners. He's referred to in the book as hating all Southerners, and by inference to be standing on the North Pole. Additionally, the demon Crowley asserts early on in the book that Manchester was his greatest work. Neither he nor his angelic counterpart Aziraphale took responsibility for Milton Keynes, but they both reported it as a win for their side. |
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Annie Haslam, the long-time lead singer of the progressive rock band Renaissance, is from Blackpool. For extra Northern cred, the band wrote and performed the theme song for Tyne Tees TV's The Paper Lads. | |
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ZeroLenny is from the Northwest, and as such sports a thick accent. He’s not afraid to lean into it at times and start shouting “LET’S GO FOOKING MENTAL� like a Football Hooligan. | |
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In Monty Python's The Meaning of Life the second Miracle of Birth sketch is set in the Third World, i.e. Yorkshire. Right after the baby is born via a stork dropping it down the chimney, the father comes home and announces that the mill is closed. In Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the same Python, Yorkshire native Michael Palin, deliberately plays the King of Swamp Castle as a grasping, avaricious Northern stereotype, complete with broad accent. |
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Take That (Band) were formed in Manchester, their southernmost member being Robbie Williams. | |
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Countess Lisl von Schlaf, in For Your Eyes Only passes herself off as a German noblewoman, until she and James Bond get alone together; as her nightie starts slipping, so does her Germanic accent. Bond guesses she's from Manchester. She answers, "Close, Liverpool." This scene is the Trope Namer for Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping via paraphrased dialogue. | |
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I, Daniel Blake is set and filmed in Newcastle-upon-Tyne (though the Jobcentre scenes are not actually filmed at the jobcentre in the middle of Newcastle), Daniel himself is portrayed by local actor and comedian Dave John's using his local (Wallsend to be specific) accent. The relocation of downtrodden Londoner Katie (played by genuine working-class Londoner Hayley Squires) and her children to a city she's not familiar with due to housing shortages, and her having to rebuild a new support network forms a large part of the plot. | |
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The two humans in Poacher are Englishmen with incredibly thick Yorkshire accents. The protagonist, Derek Badger, is a laid-back Unfazed Everyman who even answers the question of "Where are you from?" with a simple "Oop north." Due to language drift, the Blemineg also speak in thick Yorkshire accents. This confounds Derek's spirit ally Rebecca to the point where she has to use his brain as a translator. |
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In the Final Fantasy series (or Final Fantasy Tactics A2 at least), the written dialogue for the Bangaa race makes one think they have accents like this (or else classic Lowland Scots). | |
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Last of the Summer Wine, the longest-running sitcom in the world, is about a group of pensioners living in Yorkshire. | |
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Phil Lester (AmazingPhil) hails from Lancashire just north of Manchester and has a rather broad and endearing accent, although it's dialled down since he moved to London. He often jokes that it comes back in full force whenever he goes to visit his family. | |
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The 2006/7 BBC series Life on Mars is set in a 1973 Manchester that may or may not be entirely imaginary. Its Sequel Series Ashes to Ashes (2008) is set in London, but three of the Mancunian characters from the parent show, most notably Gene Hunt, appear. | |
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The Actors' Life Podcast has several guests from the north, given that the host (Bobby Calloway) is a part of the above-mentioned Ross Grant's community. Ross himself is a guest on the twentieth interview. Sarah Elisabeth Flinton hails from Sheffield and talks about often having to do roles in an RP dialect because her natural accent is harder to understand to non-Brits. Dawn Wolfe is from Newcastle and talks about how the industry there is often overlooked. |
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Aardman's other famous work, Chicken Run, is set in Yorkshire. However, not all of the characters have Yorkshire accents (Mr. and Mrs. Tweedy do, though the chickens' accents are from all over the UK). | |
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Game of Thrones has to have more Northern English accents in it than any American production of anything, ever. Justified, since Westeros is more or less a Fantasy Counterpart Culture of Medieval England, northern Westeros is Oop North. Appropriately enough, it's (mostly) the characters from the northern part of Westeros that have northern (usually Yorkshire) accents, such as textbook Yorkshireman Sean Bean. Bean's contract specified that he be allowed to use his native accent for the role. The only major Northman general who speaks in RP is the Token Evil Teammate Roose Bolton. The farther up north the series goes, the thicker the accent, so wildlings from north of the wall have a much thicker Northern accent than the Starks and the other Northmen. Theon Greyjoy, the Starks' ward, also has a Northern accent despite being an Ironborn, to indicate his Going Native. Conversely, those associated with the Lannisters and/or the South tend to speak with RP (BBC English). The Northerners' general opinion of the South is broadly similar to cultural stereotypes between the South of England and the North. Ironically, Lena Headey, who plays Cersei Lannister, is actually from Yorkshire, and considers herself a "Northern girl". She doesn't use her original speaking voice to play the character. As for her son Joffrey, his actor’s actually from Ireland - Jack Gleeson has a strong Irish accent in real life (which is utterly impossible to detect in the sneering RP accent he affects for his performance as Joffrey). |
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AC/DC singer Brian Johnson grew up in the area around Newcastle. His dialect is often undecipherable, to the point where T.V. shows will sometimes give him subtitles during interviews. | |
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Hardcastle Industries, one of Alex's clients in the Alex comic strip, is based in the fictional Nothern town of Grimley. Alex had to move there for a time, leading to a lot of 'fish out of water' jokes about a London banker trying to adjust to life in the industrial north. | |
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Wallace & Gromit. Its precise setting was kept mysterious for a while, but was eventually revealed to be Wigan in Lancashire — the Yorkshire-Lancashire rivalry was referenced in A Matter of Loaf and Death when Gromit makes a solid attempt at throwing an about-to-explode bomb across the Yorkshire border. Though in truth, it was shown in A Grand Day Out that the setting was Wigan, just had to keep an eye out for it. | |
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Threads, the ultimate horror show of nuclear war takes place entirely in Sheffield and the surrounding towns. All the actors are pretty much native to the area, and the programme needs captions just so the rest of the country can make out what the hell everyone is saying. A joke at the time (probably started by a Southerner) held that the film had been set in Sheffield so they didn't have to spend any money building sets to depict it after the nuclear attack. | |
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Robert Smith of The Cure was born in Blackpool, Lancashire, but transplanted south to Horley, Surrey at age 3, followed by Crawley, West Sussex, where the band was founded, and presently resides in Bognor Regis. | |
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Mercer, Cutler Beckett's right-hand man from Pirates of the Caribbean, has a heavy Mancunian accent. | |
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The bleak provincial city of Grimble, where Rumpole of the Bailey defended a couple of cases. Judge Oliphant is a transplanted Northerner living and working in London. |
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The Royle Family, set in the sprawling wastes of Wythenshawe, the largest council estate in Britain. | |
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The Cult, from Bradford, West Yorkshire. | |
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The Ripping Yarns episode "The Testing of Eric Olthwaite" is a parody Coming of Age Story about a boy in Yorkshire who's so boring (obsessed with rainfall and shovels) that his family leaves him. | |
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Doctor Who: First Doctor companion Dodo Chaplet had a Northern accent. The Ninth Doctor speaks in Christopher Eccleston's natural Manchester accent, despite him being an alien because, as he puts it: "Lots of planets have a North." Parodied ruthlessly in Dead Ringers. "Love & Monsters": Victor Kennedy/The Abzorbaloff is played by Peter Kay, and sports the actor's natural Lancashire accent when unmasked. In the alternate universe of "Turn Left", Donna and many other residents of the South of England are forced to move to the North of England after fallout from an attack on London leaves much of the south irradiated. It gets worse. In "The Rebel Flesh", the Eleventh Doctor attempts a Northern accent when speaking to a bunch of Northerners; they have no response so he quickly gives up. Later, "The Crimson Horror" takes place in Victorian Yorkshire, the Doctor has to pretend to be a local, and much to his joy there is, in fact, trouble at t'mill. Eleventh and Twelfth Doctor companion Clara Oswald speaks with Jenna Coleman's Lancashire accent. "The Crimson Horror" is set in a (fake) mill in Yorkshire. A flashback shows the Eleventh Doctor and Clara adopting fake accents to investigate the trouble at t'mill. Thirteenth Doctor Jodie Whittaker hails from near Huddersfield, Yorkshire, and keeps her accent for the role. Her first line after regeneration in the 2017 Christmas Special, "Twice Upon a Time", indicates it may surpass Eccleston, as many fans who had been unfamiliar with her accent have said that they could barely understand what the line was.note It was "Oh, brilliant!" by the way. Thirteenth Doctor companion Dan Lewis (and his actor John Bishop) hails from Liverpool, and is so full of Patriotic Fervour for his hometown, he gives museum tours for free. |
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Ryse: Son of Rome at one point moves the story to Britannia- specifically, to York. The majority of Britons who Marius Titus goes up against have northern accents, in contrast to The Queen's Latin used by Romans. | |
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Ubisoft Reflections, creators of the Driver series and co-producers of The Crew (2014) and The Crew 2, are from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, which is shown during the credits of Driver 1. | |
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Dead or Alive, from Liverpool. | |
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Legendary post-punk group The Fall were founded in Prestwich, Greater Manchester and are a favourite of the influential John Peel. The North, particularly Manchester, is mentioned in their lyrics, most notably with "Hit the North". | |
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Educating Rita, set in Liverpool, filmed in Dublin. The film (and play it's adapted from) examine how education is not seen as a working-class thing, and Rita attempting to change herself to fit in with her classmates doesn't necessarily improve her life when she can no longer relate to her usual Liverpool peers. | |
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Fan Dan Go is set in Lonchester, which — aside from the general weirdness of the Fan Dan Go universe—is a rather larger city than Real Life Lancaster. | |
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Much to the awed confusion of the panelists and the delight of the audience, he also brought out the accent to read poetry on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. You can hear it here. | |
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The three Red Riding films, which deal with murder and police corruption in Ripper-haunted Seventies Yorkshire. | |
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The League of Gentlemen is set in the fictitious Northern English town of Royston Vaseynote The birth name of Northern comedian Roy "Chubby" Brown. They play up all the stereotypes of podunk rurality, although it's worth noting that the creators themselves are Northerners. | |
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The Human League and Heaven 17: Also from Sheffield. | |
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The children's series Byker Grove is set around a Newcastle youth club. Byker is a real area of Newcastle. | |
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Billy Liar, filmed in and around Bradford and Leeds, just as they were in the process of pulling down all the depressing Victorian slums and replacing them with... er... depressing modern tower blocks. | |
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Robin Hood (2010) has Russell Crowe attempt a Northern accent, although the fact that he often wandered into Irish was mocked in the UK (Cate Blanchett's Northern accent was much better). Also, the Northern Lords speak with strong Northern accents (unrealistic for the time as they would all have been Norman French, but never mind). | |
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Sting is from Wallsend, Northumberland. His musical and subsequent album "The Last Ship" (which are unrelated to the novel and TV series of the same name) are inspired by his childhood and the decline of the shipbuilding industry in Wallsend. | |
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Sonny 2 has Roald, whose accent comes from somewhere in the U.K. and where his group was forced is Grim Up North to boot. Word of God says he's Irish. | |
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The Worms franchise, made by Wakefield-based Team 17, has a variety of regional accents for the teams' soundbanks, including Yorkshireman, Geordie, and Scouse. | |
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Jamie Tartt from Ted Lasso has a strong Northern accent and grew up in Manchester, fitting the abrasive, confrontational stereotype. Keeley Jones is implied to be from up north as well since her mother is mentioned to have moved back up there, but her accent doesn’t reflect her background, it’s much more Londoner. | |
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The Beiderbecke Affair was set in Leeds, Yorkshire, although one of the protagonists was a Geordie. | |
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Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels features Gary and Dean, two petty criminals from Liverpool with thick Scouse accents. The exchange they have with the cockney Loan Shark Barry the Baptist pretty much sums up the whole North/South divide. Two of Guy Ritchie's other films also include Northern characters in minor roles. In Snatch., we have Gorgeous George, an unlicensed Yorkshire boxer (played by Yorkshire native Adam Fogerty), who gets knocked unconscious for picking a fight with the leader of a clan of Irish Travellers. Don't feel too sorry for him, though, he's unapologetically rude to the Travellers beforehand. In Rock N Rolla, we have Liverpudlian native Pete, best friend of drug-addicted London rock star Johnny Quid, and something of a Cloudcuckoolander's Minder. |
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John Constantine is originally from Liverpool. Furthermore, a large number of issues are about John making attempts to come to terms with what happened in Newcastle. | |
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The miniseries Blackpool and its sequel, Viva Blackpool (both were shown under the name Viva Blackpool in the US). | |
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Roanapur Connection: Where part of the first chapter takes place. Specifically, Newcastle and where Nathan is all but stated to consider as his home. Which also forms a heavy part of his motivations we have been told thus far of getting support for. Ganabati also notes Nathan's favourite sweets coming from one particular town in Northern England called Wigan. Which he also notes Nathan never took him there on his tour of Northern England. Which he suspects has some meaning to Nathan. | |
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This is very much averted today, at least aesthetically. For example, Sheffield, which is often stereotyped as a grimy industrial steel city stuck in the 1940s (most recently thanks to The Full Monty), has the most greenspace compared to urbanspace in Britain (mainly because the city's boundary includes a large unpopulated part of the Peak District). The steel industry shut down back in the seventies and eighties and most of the old, dirty factories have been knocked down and replaced with shops and apartments. Manchester and Leeds have done similar things themselves. Not only that, modern Sheffield apparently has more trees per person than any other city in Europe. And since all the old steel factories were demolished, more steel is made in Sheffield than at any other time in its history - it just happens to only need three men and a dog to do it. This has happened with Manchester largely because the IRA set off a bomb in the city centre in 1996. Although a terrible event at the time, it resulted in a huge amount of revitalisation for the city since there was suddenly a large amount of open space that could be replanned, and of course, lots of construction jobs suddenly available. Comedian Jason Manford probably puts it best in his gag about doing a gig in Belfast, where he mentioned he was from Manchester. Salford, a sort-of-sister-city, sort-of-district of Manchesternote long story short it was a completely different place until Manchester started expanding and eventually wound up absorbing it, amoeba-style, and now nobody's really sure what the hell's going on or which county it's meant to be in, is currently halfway through its own renovation due to an influx of students and the sudden relocation of the BBC to the quays. Which basically means everything's nice and shiny as long as you're within spitting distance of the university or Media City, but tends to turn back to urban decay the moment you get more than about ten metres away from the splendor. Very nice pubs, though. |
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Hollyoaks, a Soap Opera about young people set in Chester (but filmed in Liverpool)... | |
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Jeff from Warlock Games is an extreme stereotype of this: as well as his accent, his computer wallpaper is Jimmy Savile, and he prays to Ant and Dec. | |
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His observational comedy (as seen in Phoenix Nights and Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere, as well as his stand-up routines) draws heavily on the culture of the North-West of England. | |
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Four of the core characters from Auf Wiedersehen, Pet; Oz, Dennis, and Neville (from Newcastle) and Moxey (from Liverpool).note The three Geordies were played by genuine Geordies (Jimmy Nail, Tim Healy, and Kevin Whately), but Moxey was played by Hertfordshire native Christopher Fairbank. | |
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In Witchblade, a former wielder of the Witchblade Katarina Godliffe was from a farm near York in North Yorkshire. | |
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic The Secret Garden is very specifically set on the Yorkshire moors, complete with characters speaking in the distinctive dialect of the region. | |
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Ingested is from Manchester, though Lyn Jeffs currently lives in Wales. | |
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Elizabeth Gaskell's 1855 novel North and South is one of the earliest modern examples to contrast the differences between the (newly) industrializing North and wealthier South. | |
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Conrad Roth, the captain of the Endurance in Tomb Raider (2013), is from Sheffield. Lara even calls him a "Northern bastard" when she thinks he's died. | |
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The short-lived sitcom A Prince Among Men took place in Sheffield and features Gary Prince, who has a Scouser accent (Said accent is very similar to the one Chris Barrie used for Lister note who is also a Scouser in the Red Dwarf audiobooks). | |
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Wild Bill: The series takes place in Boston, Lincolnshire, so many characters have a strong local Northern English accent. It's noted to be a struggling region, with much resentment toward foreign workers coming in and farms in debt trying to stay afloat. | |
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The Bisexual: Sadie is from Burnley, in Lancashire, with a strong accent. | |
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My Summer of Love was filmed and set in West Yorkshire, following a working-class teenage girl having a lesbian affair with a posh RP-speaking girl. | |
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A less stellar radio comedy series, relying on stereotypes and cloying sentimental humour, was Castle's On The Air, featuring all-round entertainer Roy Castle and Northern comics such as Colin Crompton and Charlie Williams (see The Comedians, above in Live TV) in the music-hall tradition, inhabiting an idealised and sentimentalised Oop North. | |
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Frasier. Daphne Moon's from Manchester.note Actress Jane Leeves, by contrast, is from the Sussex town of East Grinstead. Her accent is not easily identified as Manchester by anybody familiar with the area and Daphne's siblings speak with accents ranging from RP to Scottish.note John Mahoney is from Manchester, but he lost his accent a long time ago while serving in the military. Interestingly, Mahoney is also a lover of fine arts and food and has taught David Hyde Pierce and Kelsey Grammer about them, so he's a complete anti-stereotype of Oop North! | |
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Get Carter is set in Newcastle, which is portrayed as a grim, crime-ridden city. Also, the famous car park scene is set in Gateshead, just across the Tyne from Newcastle. |
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Only Fools and Horses: For part of one episode, set in Hull in, whatisname: | |
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In the sixth book, Spinner's End is in the north, around 200 miles from London; the descriptions are evocative of old textile towns like Rochdale, Stockport, Brighouse, and Halifax. Which side of the Pennines it's on is a matter of debate, with equally convincing arguments. An essay on the Harry Potter Lexicon by Claire M. Jordan states: "Of these locations, the Manchester/Salford area is probably the most likely." In the movies, Snape speaks with a West London accent - because Alan Rickman was originally from Hammersmith, so that can't be used to prove or disprove this theory. | |
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Downton Abbey is set around an Earl, his family, and his servants, who live on an estate in North Yorkshire. Rightfully, most of the upper-class and middle-class characters speak with RP accents, with servants being locals with Yorkshire accents. The series creators went to great lengths to ensure that the actors playing the servants had proper local accents; most are Northerners and a plurality are from Yorkshire. Siobhan Finneran even matches her character's history: like O'Brien, she's of Irish descent but born in Northern England. |
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In the book of Layer Cake, a chapter is actually entitled "Oop North" and recounts the drug dealing protagonist and his associates (all Londoners) going to a meeting with their Northern associates. He frequently refers slightingly to "scousers" and portrays the residents of the region as a bunch of savages. "Scouser" is a common nickname for people from Liverpool though, and "scouse" for their accent and dialect. |
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God's Own Country is set in rural Yorkshire and features some thick Northern accents. Life is generally portrayed as harsh, and the people stoic. | |
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