When you hear the news on BBC Radio Stoke, do you expect to hear a local accent? Does it make it easier to listen to if you don't have to decipher the news from beneath a ‘foreign’ accent? As a first-year Broadcast Journalist trainee at Staffordshire University it's important to get the right accent when reading the news. I was lucky enough to get a master-class in how to read the news from one of the best at Radio Stoke. Helen Thomas guided me through a simple passage and gave me some tips on how to be a good newsreader. It was harder than I thought! I guess I had never really thought about how much you need to change your accent when reading the news. Take a listen to hear how I did ... | 
