BBC won't employ 'posh" voices any more, says Charlotte Green "Received pronunciation, or accent-less accent, is on the wane," she says. The BBC's days of employing people who sound like me are more or less over. Green, 57, whose melodious voice was once described as "a marvel, something to make one feel safe and secure, like being tucked up in bed with a hot water bottle," accepted voluntary redundancy from the BBC earlier this year. The alumna of Haberdashers" Aske's School for Girls had worked at the corporation since she joined as a studio manager at the World Service in 1978. She specialised in news reading since 1998, and her work on the Radio 4 Today programme and on The News Quiz made her voice one of the most recognisable on the BBC. The accents of other Radio 4 announcers have upset some listeners. Kathy Clugston, a native of Belfast, once received a poem from a man complaining that " 'Gordon Brown" should not rhyme with 'Battle of the Boyne" ." Neil Nunes is another announcer who divides listener opinion. Nunes was raised in Manchester but born in Kingston, Jamaica. His deep tones prompted a number of complaints when he was hired in 2006, with some claiming that he sounded "too American" to introduce shows such as The Archers. In 2004, some of the country's best-known actors warned that a shortage of actors who could speak "posh English" was destroying the quality of British drama. Dame Eileen Atkins, Prunella Scales, and the Oscar-winning screen writers Sir Ronald Harwood and Julian Fellowes argued that greater emphasis should be given to received pronunciation rather than encouraging regional accents.