881. The first non-native speaker to read the UK TV news (with Barbara Serra)

Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson

Luke Thompson

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🗓️ 6 May 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Barbara Serra is an award-winning Italian journalist who has spent much of her career reading the news in the UK on various high-profile well-established English language news networks including the BBC, Channel 5, Al Jazeera English and Sky News.

Barbara has quite a specific relationship with English. It’s her dominant language but not her native language. She has a certain accent, which does place her outside the UK somehow.

So how has this affected her career as a news reader and reporter? What is the story of her English? What kind of challenges has she faced while reading the news in the UK? And what does this all tell us about learning English, what it means to improve your accent, the relationship between accent and identity, the definition of “native” and “non-native speaker”, the status of different English accents in the English speaking world?

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0:43.0	Hello listeners, welcome back to Luke's English podcast.
0:51.0	Today on the podcast I'm talking to Barbara Sarah, the
0:55.4	Italian journalist who reads the news on television in the UK. She's a very
1:00.0	interesting guest and has lots of interesting things to say about the way her identity and
1:05.2	career have been shaped by her relationship to the English language.
1:10.4	We're going to talk about reading the news in the UK when you sound like a foreigner.
1:15.0	Lots of questions around identity and accent and all sorts of other things that Barbara has experienced in her time
1:21.0	as a broadcast journalist.
1:22.0	I think you'll find it very interesting as a learner of English
1:24.8	looking to improve your English as much as possible in different contexts both personal and professional.
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