BBC to show short Aardman films voiced by viewers including Scots father and son duo

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The BBC has announced it will broadcast a host of short films created by Aardman Animations which have been voiced by viewers from across the UK - including a father and son duo from Paisley.Three of the six films will air on Friday and feature unscripted dialogue from audience members matched with stop-motion clay animal characters created by the studio behind the Wallace And Gromit and Shaun The Sheep films.The first of the 30-second films features a family from Port Talbot in Wales, transformed into hamsters, who talk about the TV shows they like to watch, and a family from Birmingham, reimagined as foxes, talk about their love for MasterChef.There will also be a father and son from Paisley depicted as dogs in the back seat of a car, who will discuss how they related to a son and father team who appeared in Race Across The World.The three films will air on BBC One on Friday before The One Show and will appear across BBC coverage throughout 2024, as well as in cinemas and across social media platforms.The shorts, with dialogue from audiences’ descriptions of BBC content, form part of the corporation’s Things We Love campaign, which aims to provide an entertaining insight into the UK’s favourite BBC content.The collaboration between the broadcaster and the animation studio is a return to Aardman’s Creature Comforts’ format, which originally appeared as a short film in a documentary style and applied it to the lives of wild animals and pets.The families in the films were discovered through the corporation’s audience engagement programme, where thousands of people are interviewed each year about their opinions on the BBC and its coverage.Three more films created by Aardman Animations, representing other parts of the UK,