• The Vowel Sounds of RP - audio tutor The Phonetic symbols, most common spellings and audio of the English vowels.

• The Consonant Sounds of RP - audio tutor The Phonetic symbols, most common spellings and audio of the English consonants.

• Practice Sentences for RP Vowels Audio and text to help you practice the pronunciation of each of the 20 vowel sounds of British English

• Practice Sentences for RP Consonants Audio and text to help you practice the pronunciation of each of the 24 consonant sounds in British English

• RP Neutral - video tutor. The most important sound in English - the vowel we make when we think and which dictates the muscular movement pattern and 'posture' of our face.

• What is RP - Received Pronunciation?
A guide to Received Pronunciation, what we call the what we call the Standard British Accent.

• The American accent v The English accent
A guide to the major differences between the American Accent and the British English Accent

• Better Breathing Technique
How to breathe better and improve your voice

• Elocution Exercises for Clearer Speech
How to speak more clearlywith some of our simple, effective elocution exercises

Useful Links :

Lose Your Accent

Helpful for Accent Reduction and learning a Standard British English Accent.

• The BBC has dozens of interviews with native RP speakers on its website - www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews.
Look out for Anthony Minghella (director), Tony Benn (politician), Roald Dahl (writer), Jennifer Saunders (comedian). NB THIS WILL ONLY WORK WITH REAL PLAYER AS BBC HAS NOT UPDATED FILE FORMAT!

• Try here for BBC Newsnight interviews which will be working (and also in video). http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/newsnight_interviews/default.stm. At time of writing Stephen Fry and Joanna Lumley had interviews which would be good for RP. Plus Attenborough (in more interviews list at bottom) and Nick Clegg.

• American interviewer Charlie Rose has interviewed a whole variety of guests - including many with RP British accents that you can listen to and imitate. Try his website www.charlierose.com.

The site is huge with people from every possible background - so I would recommend searching for interviews with: Tom Aikens (chef), Martin Amis (novellist), Eileen Atkins (actress), Richard and David Attenborough (actor and TV presenter respectively), Kenneth Branagh (actor), Helena Bonham Carter (actress), Daniel Craig (actor), Ralph Fiennes (actor), Helen Fielding (author of Bridget Jones), Michael Gambon (actor), Emma Thompson (actress), Kate Winslet (actress). All these are reliably RP - although they may be interviewed alongside people who aren't...

Learn an Accent

These links are useful for actors wishing to adopt specific accents for a role or audition.

Accurate and precise audio samples are the first stage towards researching an accent. Factors such as age, generation, exact location and gender can all have a strong effect on an accent, and individual speakers can have peculiarities.

Ideally you want to listen to a very rich selection of appropriate material, with 3-4 very close matches to work in detail on. These sources will help.

• British Library Accent Resource - This is an amazing resource of over 25,000 recordings of different types. Great for sourcing a rich variety of accent material.

• IDEA The International Dialects of English Archive - Another superbly rich collection of accent samples - covering all accents in English, but particularly rich in US accents.

Other Useful Links

• Central School of Speech and Drama - MA in Voice Studies. The course on which all Speak Easily's coaches were trained.

This one year, full-time MA in Voice is an internationally recogised benchmark in Voice Teacher training. Many of the world's leading Voice Specialists have been trained or have taught on this course. It is the minimum qualification you should expect from someone you are paying to help you with your voice and speech.