Drama - Specialized Resources

English Accents & Dialects
Listen to England's changing voice. Extracts from the Survey of English Dialects and the Millennium Memory Bank document how we spoke and lived in the 20th century. Sponsored by the British Library.

IDEA international dialects of English archive
"Paul Meier maintains a repository of primary source recordings for actors and other artists in the performing arts. Housed by the Department of Theatre and Film at the University Of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. All recordings are in English, of native speakers, and you will find both English language dialects and English spoken in the accents of other languages. The recordings are downloadable and playable for both PC and Macintosh computers."