' The French is gone off, look you, and there is gallant and most brave passages.'
Shakespeare's Fluellen was one of the first stage Welshmen '. Why do the English regard the Welsh accent as so funny? And how many varieties of it arethereanyway?
Patrick Hannan looks at
Its treatment in literature, listens to some famous people and gets some expert guidance onWelshidiom. Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS
BBC Wales
(Repeated: Sun 3.30 pm)