Quoting a previous Alan Milewczyk contribution:-

Where his accuracy is way
off, is in describing his contribution to local accents on the radio.
For a kick off, nationally, we had the likes of John Peel, DLT and Andy
Kershaw long before we were treated to Sweeney

Off the top of my head, how about the very Scottish Stuart Henry, highly Irish Terry Wogan, or the Australians and Americans that were 'famous' in the early days (albeit that those aren't 'regional' accents, but they are non-Queen's English accents).

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