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The 6 O'Clock News

 

'Unrelated Incidents' - No.3


this is thi
six a clock
news thi
man said n
thi reason
a talk wia
BBC accent
iz coz yi
widny wahnt
mi ti talk
aboot thi
trooth wia
voice lik
wanna yoo
scruff. if
a toktaboot
thi trooth
lik wanna yoo
scruff yi
widny thingk
it wuz troo.
jist wanna yoo
scruff tokn.
thirza right
way ti spell
ana right way
to tok it. this
is me tokn yir
right way a
spellin. this
is ma trooth.
yooz doant no
thi trooth
yirsellz cawz
yi canny talk
right. this is
the six a clock
nyooz. belt up.

 

The BBC filmed an interview with me about the poem and my work for a GCSE schools programme in 1998.

Here is the interview.

 

Short excerpts from some other relevant TL work and an audio recording of the poem itself can be found here:- //www.tomleonard.co.uk/main-publications/intimate-voices/notes-on-the-six-oclock-news.html