| Description | Track 1: Band sings a song with chorus ‘Walking the Soho Road’, 2.41 mins
Track 2: Applause, 0.30 mins
Track 3: Compere announces the interval, sound of audience talking, 1.04 mins
Track 4: Sound of instruments tuning, 0.32 mins
Track 5: A man talks about Charles Parker and the founding of Banner, 1.45 mins
Track 6: Band sings song with chorus ‘Hold the Line’, 2.40 mins
Track 7: Woman introduces a song from the Banner show ‘Steel’ and using the EMI midget tapes, describe Charles Parker interviewing people during a picket, 2.37 mins
Track 8: Phil McLaughlin talks about the Corby steel works, 0.37 mins
Track 9: Song about steel workers, 3.12 mins
Track 10: Song about Kevin Casey, a steel worker, 2.52 mins
Track 11: Man talks about the closure of Rover works in Solihull and recalls Charles Parker leading Banner in a performance on the train on a way to a demonstration, 1.45 mins
Track 12: continues Track 11, introduces a sketch and a song from 'The Motor Trade', 1.51 mins
Track 13: Sketch about a pair of pliers, 4.10 mins
Track 14: Song with chorus ‘Stand Up Now’, 0.56 mins
Track 15: continues Track 14, 2.22 mins
Track 16: Philip Donnellan tells a story about Charles Parker during the making of ‘Song of a Road’ and discusses Charles Parker’s career, 2.11 mins
Track 17: continues Track 16, discusses why the Radio Ballads were finished and talks about projects they collaborated on from 1964 onwards, the first of which was ‘Landmarks’, 1.12 mins
Track 18: A woman talks about Charles Parker making ‘Romeo and Juliet’ which used techniques developed in the Radio Ballads, 1.51 mins
Track 19: Philip Donnellan talks about television programmes for which Charles Parker made the soundtracks ‘The Colony’, ‘The Irishman’, which was not transmitted, and BBC television controllers, invites Peter Cheeseman, the manager of theatre onstage, 2.41 mins
Track 20: Philip Donnellan talks to Peter Cheeseman about working with Charles Parker on ‘the first theatre documentary’; talks about reflecting the creativity of the Potteries, 2.10 mins
Track 21: continues Track 20, 1.27 mins
Track 22: Philip Donnellan talks about vernacular speech, making a film ‘Where do we go from here?’, and ‘BD8’, and its equivalent radio programme ‘The Blind Set’, and blind people’s reactions to it, 2.23 mins
Track 23: Philip Donnellan talks about Dilip Hiro and his recordings in Wolverhampton, India, Ceylon, and America, 0.50 mins
Track 24: extract from ‘Too Shy in These Matters’, a programme about Asian teenagers in Wolverhampton and Birmingham, the ban on beards and turbans at work and long hair at school, 2.23 mins
Track 25: Philip Donnellan comments on ‘Too Shy in These Matters’ and talks about the use of music in documentaries, talks about Dilip Hiro and Charles Parker’s work on ‘No Surrender’, a programme about Ireland, 1.24 mins
Total: 48.18 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA 1 of 2 KF549C0334380 |