Record

Ref NoMS 4000/6/1/33/19/C
TitleCD Rom listening copy
LevelItem
Datec. 1963
DescriptionInterview with a 'settled' traveller.

Track 1: Actuality with a adult female traveller who has settled down in a house and Charles Parker. The woman talks about the future of travelling communities, with reference to a site that is threatened with closure. She talks about the "roaming spirit" of travellers. 2.59 mins
Track 2: The woman discusses travelling children's attendance at school, and talks about the tension between the town way of life and the traditional travellers' way of life. She talks about prejudice against travellers, 3.04 mins
Track 3 - 4: Parker, Peggy Seeger, and the woman discuss 'real Gypsies' and the difference between them and 'travellers'.
Track 5: The woman talks about the fears that travellers have about settling down in one place. She talks about her experience of mixing with a settled community. She sings a song 'My mother said I never should play with the gypsies in the wood...', 3.54 mins

Total: 16.12 mins

Dubber's reference number: PLA DH444B0776174
Extent1
FormatCd-rom
Access StatusOpen
LanguageEnglish
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