Of all the UK accents, Cockney is one of the most famous, but it’s also one of the trickiest to pull off. Best known for identifying working-class Londoners, actors like Michael Caine and Jason ...

Of course, Hepburn’s singing was dubbed inadequate for My Fair Lady and while the actor still recorded all the songs herself, another singer’s voice was utilized for the majority of the film. But ...

There are people in your life you believed completely the first time you met them. Not because they said anything particularly wise, not because they had a resume you’d vetted, but because of the way ...

Ever wonder how hard it would be to master a Cockney English accent? With an audition less than a day away, actor Marty is up to the challenge! Watch as dialect coach Page Clements teaches him a ...

One of Dick Van Dyke’s most memorable movies is Mary Poppins, where he played jack-of-all-trades Bert. Other than his song-and-dance numbers, another memorable trait Van Dyke brought out in one of the ...

Barbara Windsor as Peggy Mitchel in the BBC soap opera Eastenders. BBC Or maybe you think of Dame Barbara Windsor, who died on December 9. She was a cockney icon, born in 1937 in Shoreditch, east ...

As the Modern Cockney Festival enters its third year, people in south east England with a Cockney connection reflect on what it means to them. Throughout March, the month-long event organised by Grow ...