Idris Elba, sure. He sounded pretty Baltimore to me. Chiwetel Ejiofor was pretty good as well. But for a really, really bad American accent, look at David Jason’s turn in “Miami Twice,” or rather, you might want to spare yourself the agony.

If you think that’s shocking, look at the life of the actress Hattie Jacques.

Have you heard Beverley Knight? She sings like a black American. She’s black, sure, but she’s British.

I have never worked out how to read books that I didn’t buy through Play on the Play Books app. There are instructions that make no sense, because I don’t have an upload button in the app, even though I have enabled Upload pdf, and Play doesn’t show up in the options in Calibre Companion, which I use as my book…