he is speaking slowly presuambly so people can understand, and in a lot of places people speak fiarly slowly, again thats a Glasgow thing to speak very quickly, its a good opportunity for any to study becasue he is speaknig verys slowly, howevr there is a very distinctive English "geordie" twang to his accent which you often find in border accents, again its yet another example of one of many Scots accents.
Archangel -the lady in 3 lives of Thomasina was Susan Hampshire who now plays "Molly" in Monarch of the glen. when Monarch first started Molly had an English accent you could have cut glass with , now she has an Edinburgh "lilt"