{"id":54222,"date":"2025-04-27T07:50:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T07:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/54222\/"},"modified":"2025-04-27T07:50:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T07:50:14","slug":"bbc-veteran-kate-adie-ni-accent-wasnt-much-loved-by-viewers-and-ian-paisleys-voice-in-particular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/54222\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC veteran\u00a0Kate Adie: \u2018NI accent wasn\u2019t much-loved by viewers, and Ian Paisley&#8217;s voice in particular\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Celebrated war reporter also recalls time she thought she\u2019d been shot while working in Belfast\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kate Adie on the red carpet in London\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1cf51621-26d6-467d-86a8-ea735113f8c6.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Kate Adie on the red carpet in London<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Former war correspondent Kate Adie has revealed that the Northern Irish dialect wasn\u2019t particularly popular in an old BBC list of the UK\u2019s most hated regional accents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">But the veteran TV reporter, who last week revealed that the Birmingham accent came out top in the unofficial list,  claimed Ian Paisley\u2019s voice was near the bottom of the league table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celebrated war reporter also recalls time she thought she\u2019d been shot while working in Belfast Kate Adie on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[192,2378,6414,14991,1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-54222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-bbc","9":"tag-belfast","10":"tag-ian-paisley","11":"tag-ivan-little","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114408838056879119","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}