Why Not Voice Over Thick British Accents?

The BBC world Service will, from time to time, choose to voice over an interview if the guest’s accent is particularly hard to understand, but while listening to an Outlook interview a few weeks ago Bernadette Farquhar from Barbados found she could barely make out what a Scottish guest was saying. Now she is asking about the process behind deciding which accents should be voiced over and which should be left au natural.

In search of answers Rajan spends some time with producer, Deiniol Buxton, presenter, Matthew Bannister and interpreter, Youssef Taha as they record an interview with a Tunisian fisherman who speaks Arabic.