On Sunday night’s Countryfile on BBC One, Shauna Lowry met 94-year-old Castledawson blacksmith Barney Devlin who inspired Seamus Heaney’s poem ‘The Forge‘.
The BBC has been criticised for using subtitles.
Blatant condescension or an essential service?
YOU decide.
BBC slammed for using subtitles for Castledawson man in Countryfile programme (Mid-Ulster Mail)
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Oh come on! I lived in the North for many years- this man is VERY hard to understand. Even with the subtitles!
The audio compression on that video isn’t helping him out much either.
His dentures aren’t helping either. They sound a little loose, makes people way harder to understand and I’d say interferes with the recording too.
Have seen pieces featuring travelers on RTE that were subititled. And recall too going to see Some Mother’s Son in a cinema in New York – parts of that had subtitles. Suppose that’s different though.
I could have done with subtitles during Interstellar, and whenever Ian McKellan is talking. Whisper acting; how I loathe thee.
Ian McKellen isn’t in interstellar.
He might have been on the other side of the horizon of that big hole though…. just sayin’
Are you saying Middle Earth is real but on the other side of a black hole?! Mind. Blown.
…who knows, after all *SPOLIER ALERT FOR INETRSTELLAR* we still don’t know who made the hole or when….
It’s far from thon lavlie eccent that Shauna was reared.
It’s fair enough. I’ve lived in Cork my whole life but I could have done with subtitles at some points in The Wind that Shakes the Barley.
I love Countryfile. I could mostly make out what he was saying, but the subtitles helped.
Meh…
Now come on, the anvil is a unicorn? I would have never had got that without subtitles and probably would have remained shouting at the TV demanding to know the meaning for some time thereafter.
Nailed it !
Reminds me of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfSnaY1Wp_U
Pretty hard to pick up in fairness, not helped by the poetic descriptions used.
Bring back “Bon voyage” with Shauna, Cathal O’Shannon and some other fella. Repeats obviously. Or Shanua could go back and redo the bits Cathal done- RIP.
Loved watching that show…..