| Description | Track 1: Audience talking, 0.22 mins
Track 2: An unidentified woman sings a song that begins ‘In the morning we built a city’, 2.50 mins
Track 3: Applause, 0.11 mins
Track 4: An unidentified man talks about Charles Parker and about the plans for the show in his memory, 2.18 mins
Track 5: An unidentified man talks about Charles Parker’s days as submarine commander in the Navy and reads a quotation about the mass media, 2.26 mins
Track 6: talks about the radio equipment used by Charles Parker and joining the BBC, 1.21 mins
Track 7: reads part of an article by Charles Parker about joining the BBC, 1.05 mins
Track 8: talks about BBC programmes in the 1950s, 1.23 mins
Track 9: talks about ‘actuality’ and recording on acetate disks, 1.17 mins
Track 10: plays a film, which doesn’t work, 0.54 mins
Track 11: talks about the first portable tape recorder, 1.19 mins
Track 12: continues Track 11, 0.38 mins
Track 13: talks about the TR90 editing machine and introduces Ian Campbell, 1.04 mins
Track 14: Ian Campbell talks about music in the Radio Ballads, working with Charles Parker on ‘Cry from the Cut’, 1.12 mins
Track 15: Extract from ‘Cry from the Cut’: a woman sings ‘The Water is Wide’, 1.10 mins
Track 16: Extract from ‘Cry from the Cut’, 2.53
Track 17: Interview with Mary Baker, Charles Parker’s recording engineer; she talks about preparing the inserts for the Radio Ballads; how she got into radio, how she met Charles Parker, 2.07 mins
Track 18: Mary Baker talks about Charles Parker’s character, working hours at the BBC, what she learnt from working with Charles Parker, 2.56 mins
Track 19: Applause, 0.11 mins
Track 20: The compere invites Ian and Lorna Campbell onto the stage, 0.41 mins
Track 21: Ian Campbell talks about Birmingham in the 1950s and singing in a workers’ choir, 1.18 mins
Track 22: Lorna Campbell talks about meeting Charles Parker and working with him in his church, his Christianity, 1.38 mins
Track 23: Lorna Campbell sings a song from ‘Cry from the Cut’ which begins ‘It’s a Hard Life’, 1.31 mins
Track 24: Ian Campbell talks about being in a skiffle group in the 1950s, 2.46 mins
Track 25: Ian Campbell sings ‘The Barnyards of Dalgettie’, 0.48 mins
Track 26: The compere talks about American broadcasting and ‘ballad operas’ and its influence on Charles Parker, 2.39 mins
Track 27: Extract from ‘The Lonesome Train’, 2.32 mins
Track 28: The compere talks about the extract and introduces the first Radio Ballad, 0.52 mins
Track 29: Extract from ‘The Ballad of John Axon’, 2.16 mins
Track 30: Compere talks about the impact of ‘The Ballad of John Axon’, 0.30 mins
Track 31: A woman reads an extract from the original sleeve notes of the Radio Ballads, 0.48 mins
Track 32: Introduces a clip from a film of Peggy Seeger talking about the Radio Ballads, 0.16 mins
Track 33: continues Track 32, 1.13 mins
Total: 47.42 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA 1 OF 2 KF549C0334480 |