{"id":82952,"date":"2023-12-12T03:02:50","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T03:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/?p=82952"},"modified":"2023-12-12T03:02:50","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T03:02:50","slug":"wombles-director-axes-madame-cholets-french-accent-in-new-adaptation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/world-news\/wombles-director-axes-madame-cholets-french-accent-in-new-adaptation\/","title":{"rendered":"Wombles director AXES Madame Cholet&apos;s French accent in new adaptation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1> Ooh la la! Wombles director Johnny Vegas AXES Madame Cholet&#8217;s French accent in new adaptation of BBC hit&#8230; because &#8216;she&#8217;s from Wimbledon&#8217;<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0The Wombles is set for a TV return 50 years after it first aired\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Wombles director Johnny Vegas has axed Madame Cholet&#8217;s French accent in a new adaptation of the BBC hit because the characters are &#8216;all from Wimbledon&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>A number of the books will be adapted for radio with Richard E Grant as narrator to mark 50 years since the stories first appeared on the BBC.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Vegas, the director of the adaptations which will air on Christmas Day, said no significant changes have been made to the stories &#8211; but admitted that one character will not sound the same.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Madame Cholet is known as the chef of the Wimbledon burrow and typically has a French accent\u00a0despite being from the London area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Comedian Vegas told BBC Radio 4&#8217;s Today prgramme: &#8216;We changed the accent of Madame Cholet from French. They were all essentially born in Wimbledon and they were all more or less of that region.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/12\/00\/78847911-12852631-image-m-61_1702341699081.jpg\" height=\"419\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The Wombles director Johnny Vegas has axed the French accent of Madame Cholet (pictured) in a new adaptation of the BBC hit<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/12\/00\/78847907-12852631-image-a-58_1702341669812.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Director Johnny Vegas (left) is pictured with narrator Richard E Grant (right)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/12\/00\/78847909-12852631-image-m-59_1702341672534.jpg\" height=\"469\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The characters were invented by Elisabeth Beresford in the late 1960s and were first seen in children&#8217;s novels before being turned into a TV show in the 70s<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/12\/01\/76698121-12852631-The_Wombles_were_created_by_Elisabeth_Beresford_in_1968_but_shot-a-77_1702342872914.jpg\" height=\"519\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The Wombles were created by Elisabeth Beresford in 1968 &#8211; but shot to global fame with the BBC series five years later (above)<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8216;We just thought &#8211; we know that &#8221;French people do not talk like that no more&#8221; and&#8230; why set her apart with a French accent just because she had a French name?&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The radio adaptations will track the lives of fictional characters Madame Cholet and Great Uncle Bulgaria Coburg, Tobermory, Orinoco, Bungo, Tomsk, Wellington and Alderney as they travel around Wimbledon common.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The characters were invented by Elisabeth Beresford in the late 1960s and were first seen in children&#8217;s novels before being turned into a TV show in the 70s.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The character&#8217;s live in burrows in Wimbledon Common where they try to help the environment by collecting and recycling litter &#8211; with their moto being &#8216;Make Good Use of Bad Rubbish&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Vegas said: &#8216;Everybody has a fondness for it and I didn&#8217;t realise quite how ahead of its time it was, the message that was contained within the story-telling&#8230; it was tidying and it was recycling.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s a wonderfully engaging story, Richard did a beautiful job when he came in and read and I think with a lot of books that we&#8217;ve transferred to radio, this could have been written [now]&#8230;[rather than] 50 years ago.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/12\/01\/76697591-12852631-Elisabeth_Beresford_pictured_with_Great_Uncle_Bulgaria_one_of_th-a-79_1702342904825.jpg\" height=\"929\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Elisabeth Beresford is pictured with Great Uncle Bulgaria, one of the most beloved Wombles characters<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/12\/01\/76698123-12852631-image-a-78_1702342890195.jpg\" height=\"518\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>ITV rebooted the series in the late 1990s (above). The revival lasted for three series before the Wimbledon Common dwellers were retired again<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/12\/01\/76696291-12852631-The_original_Wombles_Madame_Cholet_Tomsk_Bungo_Wellington_Great_-a-80_1702342917179.jpg\" height=\"645\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The original Wombles: Madame Cholet, Tomsk, Bungo, Wellington, Great Uncle Bulgaria,\u00a0Orinoco and Tobermory<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/12\/01\/70025831-12852631-The_Wombles_performing_on_stage_in_a_70s_Christmas_special_as_th-a-81_1702342940482.jpg\" height=\"424\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The Wombles performing on stage in a 70s Christmas special as they celebrated the decade\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/12\/01\/76697613-12852631-CGI_versions_of_the_Wombles_have_appeared_on_the_official_Facebo-a-82_1702343260289.jpg\" height=\"355\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>CGI versions of the Wombles have appeared on the official Facebook page for several years<\/p>\n<p>The cuddly creatures shot to global fame in 1973 with a BBC series of stop-motion animated shorts, narrated by Bernard Cribbins.<\/p>\n<p>The show came with an accompanying novelty band, led by musician Mike Batt, which performed the theme tune Remember You&#8217;re a Womble &#8211; and elevated the litter-pickers to the status of timeless British icons.<\/p>\n<p>Wombles returned to British living rooms in the 1990s after three series&#8217; worth of new episodes were produced by a Canadian TV company and screened on ITV, with Beresford and Batt returning to write the show and oversee its output.<\/p>\n<p>Beresford died on Christmas Eve in 2010\u00a0at home on Alderney in the Channel Islands.<\/p>\n<p>Five years later, Batt tried to reboot the show again with a cast including Cribbins and Ray Winstone.<\/p>\n<p>But the musician&#8217;s attempts to get the CGI series off the ground ended in failure after he sold the rights\u00a0to the show amid financial troubles; he declared himself bankrupt in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12852631\/Ooh-la-la-Wombles-director-Johnny-Vegas-AXES-Madame-Cholets-French-accent-new-adaptation-BBC-hit-shes-Wimbledon.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ooh la la! 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