| Description | Charles Parker interviews Sam Larner
Track 1: Charles Parker asks Sam about his childhood; he talks about big families in Winterton, Norfolk, when he was a child, families would have a child a year, 1.48 mins
Track 2: describes visiting a family who kept a pub in a village near Tralee, Ireland, who lived in a house with their chickens and pig, changes in living conditions since he was young, keeping houses clean, 3.17 mins
Track 3: talks about the sweets he used to get when he was a child and the songs he was taught at school, being paid for singing songs, 1.47 mins
Track 4: Charles Parker asks whether he learnt 'the old songs', being paid to sing by an old ostler, 1.11 mins
Track 5: describes the local clubs coming into the pubs and demanding beer, and paying him to sing, 1.44 mins
Track 6: talks about his grandmother, whose husband was drowned, she saw his drowning in a vision, talks about Ned Fawcett, who told him tales about being in a party that searched for Franklin's expedition in the North Pole, 2.00 mins
Track 7: talks about the reading room in the village, recalls Ned Fawcett's tales, 1.45 mins
Track 8: talks about his brothers and sisters, nine in total, two died in infancy, 1.32 mins
Track 9: talks about all his brothers going to sea, working braiding nets, his sisters went into service, 1.01 mins
Total: 16.10 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA DH444B0793374 |