| Description | Track 1: Test signal 0.32 mins Track 2: Programme introduction 0.14 mins Track 3: 'The Streets of Brummagem' 1.42 mins Track 4: Girls sing an unidentified song 0.20 mins Track 5: 'The Lark in the Morning' 0.57 mins Track 6: 'The Lark in the Morning' 0.48 mins Track 7: Documentary readings, discussion of self sufficient peasant economy during the Middle Ages, reading of John Ball 1.12 mins Track 8: West Midlands carol 'King Herod and the Cock' with documentary readings from John Bromyard 1383; George Edmunds 1819 on the parish of Birmingham, proposing himself for election to the board of Poor Law Guardians; Birmingham Broadside news item 1819 2.27 mins Track 9: Unidentified song about rat catchers and a cheese 2.23 mins Track 10: Unidentified song 0.27 mins Track 11: 'Fuddling Day' 1.50 mins Track 12: Documentary readings about the beer and brewing trade in the nineteenth century 0.33 mins Track 13: Unidentified song beginning 'It was a Jolly Sailor Boy' 3.14 mins Track 14: Unidentified song beginning 'Come all you Jolly Labouring Men', documentary readings on the enclosure of common land in the West Midlands and the growth of the city of Birmingham 2.43 mins Track 15: 'Van Dieman's Land', interspersed with documentary readings about poverty and the poor law 3.17 mins Track 16: 'Cruel', interspersed with documentary readings on poor law expenditure in the parish of Northfield 1817 1.34 mins Track 17: Documentary reading from William Cobbett 1830 and on the growth of Birmingham in the nineteenth century 0.40 mins Track 18: 'Brave Dudley Boys' 2.10 mins Track 19: Documentary readings from nineteenth century Birmingham trade union directories 0.40 mins Track 20: 'The Streets of Brummagem' 0.33 mins Track 21: Programme credits 0.26 mins
Total: 29.07 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF534B0485580 |