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If that's his accent, he can't help it. I feel like you guys are being questionably judgemental. The role of a continuity announcer is to inform the viewer of the next programme clearly, which he did.

There's a difference between an accent and someone's delivery. I've heard many different accents from across the country, but their delivery matches the mood of what they're going into or coming out of. I'm afraid for gravity of the event, it doesn't sound great from those BBC One examples in the thread... It is continuity basics.