| Ref No | MS 4000/5/2/4/1 |
| Title | Sound recording of actuality inserts for lecture 'Spoken Language As We Find It!' by Charles Parker at NATE Annual Conference, Easter 1965 (includes extracts from the radio ballads) |
| Level | File |
| Date | 09 April 1965 |
| Description | Track 1: Duration (min/sec): 0.41 Description of track: Extract from 'The Big Hewer' radio ballad actuality
Track 2: Duration (min/sec): 4.36 Description of track: Extract from 'The Big Hewer' radio ballad actuality (to 1.52);
followed by extract from radio programme 'East Anglian Miscellany' about tomb of St Edmund at Bury St Edmunds
Track 3: Duration (min/sec): 2.33 Description of track: Maggie Cameron talking [Scottish accent]
Track 4: Duration (min/sec): 2.24 Description of track: Extract from 'The Big Hewer' radio ballad actuality with Mrs Cummings talking about being widowed by age 28 years and death in mining communities
Track 5: Duration (min/sec): 2.44 Description of track: Extract from BBC radio programme 'Saturday Club'
Track 6: Duration (min/sec): 2.50 Description of track: Extract from 'The Big Hewer' radio ballad actuality (subject talking to Charles Parker) (to 1.38);
followed by [extract from 'Song of a Road' radio ballad actuality]
Track 7: Duration (min/sec): 3.04 Description of track: Extract from 'Song of a Road' 'The Big Hewer' radio ballad actuality (to 1.17);
followed by 'The Big Hewer' radio ballad actuality
Track 8: Duration (min/sec): 4.39 Description of track: Extract from 'The Big Hewer' radio ballad actuality (subjects talking to Charles Parker)
Track 9: Duration (min/sec): 2.01 Description of track: Extract from 'The Travelling People' radio ballad actuality
Track 10: Duration (min/sec): 4.45 Description of track: Extract from 'The Body Blow' radio ballad actuality (subject talking to Charles Parker)
Track 11: Duration (min/sec): 7.39 Description of track: Extract from 'The Travelling People' radio ballad actuality (c3 mins of silence at end of track)
Total duration: (min/sec): 37.56 |
| Related Material | See CD recording of the fourth radio ballad 'The Big Hewer', the second radio ballad 'Song of a Road', the eighth radio ballad 'The Travelling People' and the fifth radio ballad 'The Body Blow'. Accompanying written documentation for the radio ballads is at MS 4000/2/82, MS 4000/2/74, MS 4000/2/97 and MS 4000/2/87 respectively |
| Physical Description | Listening copy: 1 x CD-R serial number NF220 T093 9174
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 |
| Access Status | Open |
| Language | English |