Idea 61: London Underground Localised Announcements

Employee training

"Repeat after me, "Awright guvners, we're now arriving at Maahl End. Mind the apples and pears""

A whole range of different accents and dialects are found in London, and certain areas and destinations conform to type. But the pre-recorded voice-overs on the train announcing the arrival into certain stations is always a kind of bland, uniform, BBC English clipped voice. (Especially the Circle Line which sounds a bit like Princess Diana).

So it might be fun if the announcer was asked to pre-record each station in the stereotypical voice of someone from that area. So cockney in the East, through city boys, through Rasta, through Indian, through posh south-west. Same announcer, different voices. Obviously some places are more difficult than others - eg do you go posh or Rasta for Notting Hill (perhaps it could be posh white until Notting Hill Carnival time)? But I'm sure they'd work it out.

Feasibility Rating: 8