| Ref No | MS 4000/5/1/14/14 |
| Title | Sound recording of 'A' Roving 4' |
| Level | File |
| Date | [13 August 1968] |
| Description | Weekly radio programme of interviews, song and music whilst travelling around the British Isles. The programme visits the Isle of Portland of f the south coast of England, Dorset and the Hebrides on the west coast of Scotland and interviews include those with Flora [McNeil]
Track 1: Duration (min/sec): 0.24 Description of track: Loud tone
Track 2: Duration (min/sec): 1.44 Description of track: Introduction to radio programme recalling last week's programme (see MS 4000/5/1/14/13) and this weeks contents; explains the 'jigging' tune used for the programme
Track 3: Duration (min/sec): 2.22 Description of track: Song, an Irish blarney chorus song by a pair of 'Liverpool lasses'; move to a stone quarry on Isle of Portland of f the coast of Dorset
Track 4: Duration (min/sec): 3.50 Description of track: Talks about traditional equipment and working practice used in the Portland stone quarry; singing in the quarry;
Track 5: Duration (min/sec): 1.51 Description of track: Singing in the quarry; talking about the 'French Song' they sing
Track 6: Duration (min/sec): 0.36 Description of track: Singing the 'French Song'
Track 7: Duration (min/sec): 1.55 Description of track: Move from south coast of England to west coast of Scotland to music played by 'The Kentish Travellers' to the southern most islands in the Hebrides
Track 8: Duration (min/sec): 1.17 Description of track: Talks to Flora [McNeil] about her repertoire of Scots Gaelic traditional songs
Track 9: Duration (min/sec): 1.50 Description of track: Flora [McNeil] sings in Gaelic 'The Misty Mountain'; part translated by interviewer
Track 10: Duration (min/sec): 2.41 Description of track: Song ['Jamboree'] by Colin Wilkie and Shirley Hart with the Twelve Buccaneers move programme back to south coast of England, Portland Bill
Track 11: Duration (min/sec): 4.08 Description of track: Norwegian naval author tells of the wrecking of his ship of f this coast; sings a shanty; story behind the composing of the tune 'The Atlantic Roaring' told by John Doherty
Track 12: Duration (min/sec): 3.51 Description of track: John Doherty plays 'The Atlantic Roaring' on the fiddle; John Doherty is a travelling peddlar around Donegal and plays the fiddle and tells stories as he travels
Track 13: Duration (min/sec): 1.31 Description of track: John Doherty plays 'The Flowers of Edinburgh' on the fiddle; introduces Irish group 'The Tinkers' singing song sung by Flora [McNeil] earlier but a different version and in English
Track 14: Duration (min/sec): 5.16 Description of track: 'The Tinkers' singing as detailed in Track 14 [c3 mins of silence at end of track]
Total duration: (min/sec): 33.16 |
| Related Material | See MS 4000/5/1/14/13;15-18 for other programmes in series |
| Physical Description | Listening copy: 1 x CD-R serial number CF129 K006 5774
Original tape:
Size: 7" tape reel
Gauge: 1/4" tape (0.625cm)
Speed: 7.5ips (19cm/s);
EQ Curve used: IEC
Track configuration: Half Track Mono
Dubbing Date: 12/02
Notes: Loud tone Track 1 |
| Access Status | Open |
| Language | English |