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My northern accent got complaints on Radio 3!
Sunday Express
|April 28, 2024
TO MANY, she’s the bright and breezy breakfast presenter on Saturday morning radio.
But some snobby Radio 3 listeners have complained about Elizabeth Alker’s northern accent.
The host of Unclassified and the Breakfast show is from Rochdale in Lancashire, and lives in West Yorkshire.
And she admits her voice has upset some who tune into the BBC’s classical music station.
Elizabeth, 42, revealed: “Everyone in the public eye gets trolled, but one listener told me, ‘Working-class accents don’t belong on Radio 3’.
This story is from the April 28, 2024 edition of Sunday Express.
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