Record

Ref NoMS 4000/6/1/17/20/C
TitleCD Rom listening copy
LevelItem
Date28 February 1960
DescriptionCharles Parker and Ewan MacColl interview Sam Larner and Dorcas Larner:

Track 1: talks about his mother dying in 1925, 0.39 mins
Track 2: Charles Parker asks Sam to describe the first day he went to sea as a cabin boy, how we felt when he went aboard the ship, 1.58 mins
Track 3: describes meeting the men on the ship, working coiling the ropes, 1.41 mins
Track 4: describes how he felt when the boat first cast off, 1.21 mins
Track 5: talks about feeling lonely while at sea, feeling down when the boat leaves the harbour, 1.28 mins
Track 6: describes being on the boat towed out of Yarmouth harbour, 1.02 mins
Track 7: describes 'feeling the old north sea roll', 1.39 mins
Track 8: describes the tug casting off, putting up the sails, the wind, 1.05 mins
Track 9: describes 'feeling alive' when the tug cast off, tells how sailors talk to their ships, sailing to the fishing grounds, 2.01 mins
Track 10: talks about getting a good wind as they sailed towards the fishing grounds, talks about the sails on the ships, 1.22 mins
Track 11: talks about his ambition to handle the sails, and the sailors shouting to each other as they put up the sails, 1.16 mins
Track 12: talk about seeing the Smith's Knoll lighthouse, 0.45 mins

Total: 16.23 mins

Dubber's reference number: PLA YL458D0961674
Extent1
FormatCd-rom
Access StatusOpen
LanguageEnglish
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