| Description | Tracks 1-10: A meeting held to plan the series 'Landmarks' including discussion about the use of music and song, the importance of capturing experience in song, a debate about how the songs work with pictures and how songs are derived from actuality, with reference to the Radio Ballads, in particular 'On the Edge', how putting speech over pictures can create a different effect and how putting songs over pictures can show up flaws in the songs, the importance of a common style in the series, with discussion about Ewan MacColl's singing - one man says he 'sings disdainfully' and denies the actuality - Charles Parker says he feels that 'there is nobody to touch MacColl'.
Total: 31.15 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF573E0656080 |