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Ep1 scene 7 pt1
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Street and Lane: Accents and radio drama
SCENE 7
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ARTHUR
Tha wants to fettle anon at Doddses ter scrit reight clatter, Eddie.
GNM
Carn't nathen. Doddsies happen to git fitched up frit bust and cloysed.
JOHNNY
Let me try one. Dodds is on his holiday at his villa in the Isle of Wight?
ARTHUR
Not even close.
JOHNNY
Bournemouth?
ARTHUR
Wrong. He says Dodds and co have ceased trading due to financial shortcomings beyond their control and closed down.
JOHNNY
Ask him what he's brought us then?
ARTHUR
What breetness of clatter has tha fetched up for wi then?
GNM
Leet Blenheim ochre. Nathen.
ARTHUR
Leet Blenheim ochre. Now then.
JOHNNY
That's no good. Blenheim's nowhere near Morocco.
ARTHUR
It's close. Like oxo and tea.
JOHNNY
They've ordered Moroccan Brown they'll want Morrocan Brown.
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