A bit of DuckDuckGo-ing reminded me that it was Valkyrie Squadron. This page, to be specific: http://www.valkyriesquadron.com/archive/chapter-2…

As an aside which webcomic linked to this article by the by?

The problem with turning to professionally produce British media–such as audiobooks and the World Service–is that you tend to get a very narrow band of highly polished "Queen's English". It's not as bad as the supremely clipped tones of the Postwar newsreaders, but generally a very limited selection. Stephen Fry in particular, though a joy to listen to, sounds like the uppermost of the English crust.

A better alternative is BBC radio, offered for free on the Internet. Listen to the wide variety of panel games, readings, and radio plays particularly on Radio 4 and Radio 4 Extra. Not only is there a lot of entertainment value there, but just about every regional accent is available for perusal in a twenty-four hour period.

"EH SEE EF AM IN A FIGHT, MAN, SOMETIME AH FERGET TE TEK EM OOT…"

"So where did you hide the money?"

"Ooaaar..stuffed it out a cows arse!"

also, i concur about Mr Ellis' execution of Alice's dialogue. tres subtle, tres chic.

— Baz.

Audiobooks from English speaking authors is a good way to go too like Stephen Fry.

@Amuletts: That all Dwarfs seem to be Scottish is one of the many cultural misunderstandings. I believe Games Workshop always cast their Dwarfs and Squats (if you've played Warhammer 40k long enough) with Northern English accents because, as we all know, many of the English miners came from Yorkshire. Like insisting that *all* folk music must have come exclusively from Ireland and Scotland rather than across the British Isles as a whole it does mean that you've boxed yourself in on a creative level.

@D.Bethel: Thats really intruiging, for the film Downfall, actor Bruno Gantz requested either newsreel footage or audio of Adolf Hitler speaking in normal conversation so he could best act how Hitler was in normal circles rather than what we see at the rallies and speeches. Apparently there is only one audio recording of Hitler talking normally and he, like Castro, sounds shy, introverted and almost mumbled his words which was why Gantz acted like he did and it made the film feel all that much more authentic for the trouble which was superb.

I feel for Hispanic characters your method would work best as it gently informs the reader that what kind of culture the character is from and doesn't infringe on the story.

@Tim: I was going to cite Warren Ellis as a fantastic example. In Freakangels he sets himself the extraordinarily tough task of writing in a Mancunian girl Alice. Manc isn't as hard an dialect as Geordie, Scouse or Weegie but its still tough to convey it through text. How he does it though is absolutely brilliant in its sublety because he just uses the odd bit of slang such as "summat" or "fookin'/fook" and lets her manner of speaking do the rest which reads well.

Don't get me wrong– accented dialouge can be used to effect– in fact, we're a few pages off from introducing one such character in Spy6teen– but it is for the purposes of a later reveal…still, that character sticks around for some time, so I might be shooting myself in the foot…
I will say that you can get away with it at times and if it fits the character– after all, would Nightcrawler be the same character without the occasional "Mein Gott!"?

…you have got me thinking though– I might go back to the script and turn down the accent dial a tad. When it finally pops around, let me know what'cha think!