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Episode: 0116 – The Story Of Bailey And The Beach
Description: 0116 – The Story Of Bailey And The BeachBailey was brought up in New Zealand and so spoke English with that fantastic accent. She was a great newsreader and applied for a job at a radio station in the south-east of England. The news editor didn’t mind the slightly different inflection, Bailey was perfectly understandable and her slight accent added a certain point of difference to the sound of the station.Just because her vowels in ‘short e’ words like ‘dress’ or ‘bed’ sounded more like an ‘i’ (and gave ‘driss’ and ‘bid’) was no reason to deny her a job: th...