| Description | Weekly radio programme of interviews, song and music whilst travelling around the British Isles. The programme visits the Channel Islands and the port of Lerwick, Shetland Isles and interviews include those with Robert 'Bob' Copper and Mrs Elliot of Birtley
Track 1: Duration (min/sec): 0.29 Description of track: Loud tone
Track 2: Duration (min/sec): 1.18 Description of track: Introduction to radio programme roving around the British Isles listening to tunes and songs and how they are regarded in different localities, the same tunes being called by different names; Northern Ireland trio introduced to play three reels, the 'Rakes of Mallow'; an Anglo Scots Irish reel 'The Mason's Apron' and 'The Girl I Left Behind Me' also known with the Morris Dancers title, making it a Sussex tune, of 'Brighton Camp'
Track 3: Duration (min/sec): 3.28 Description of track: Playing first reel 'Brighton Camp'; conversation about song 'Two Young Brethren'
Track 4: Duration (min/sec): 3.23 Description of track: Robert 'Bob' Copper and his late father singing 'Two Young Brethren' at Rottingdean, near Brighton, Sussex; Robert Copper talks about his family dating back in the parish registers to 1609; describe changes in that area in Sussex but traditional songs have not altered
Track 5: Duration (min/sec): 2.47 Description of track: Recording in 1952 of some of the Copper family singing a sea song
Track 6: Duration (min/sec): 5.03 Description of track: Shirley Collins and others in the chorus singing 'Babes In The Wood'; talk about a drink 'Milko Punch' drunk to celebrate the first Sunday in May in Guernsey made of rum, milk and an egg
Track 7: Duration (min/sec): 1.10 Description of track: Song in French
Track 8: Duration (min/sec): 3.23 Description of track: Programme moved from Channel Islands to the Port of Lerwick, Shetland Isles to meet Tom Anderson, fiddler and Willie Johnson, guitarist; sea faring tunes played
Track 9: Duration (min/sec): 1.30 Description of track: Mrs Elliot of Birtley talking about songs from her childhood and singing extracts
Track 10: Duration (min/sec): 3.14 Description of track: [Elliot family] singing; talks about family sing songs each week in the pub
Track 11: Duration (min/sec): 2.27 Description of track: Song ['Bonnie Lass']
Track 12: Duration (min/sec): 6.02 Description of track: Elliot family singing 'The Wild Mountain Thyme' [c4 mins of silence at end of track]
Total duration: (min/sec): 34.14 |