| Ref No | MS 4000/5/2/4/2 |
| Title | Sound recording of actuality inserts for NATE lecture 'English In Practice, Aspects of Creative Expression' by Charles Parker at Hull |
| Level | File |
| Date | 11 March 1967 |
| Description | Track 1: Duration (min/sec): 0.57 Description of track: Extract of Walter Thornton and Wally Kinder talking about becoming blind [from 'The Blind Set']
Track 2: Duration (min/sec): 4.32 Description of track: Extract of Ben Davies talking about dangers of dust underground as a miner (extract from 'The Big Hewer' radio ballad actuality) (to 0.50);
followed by interview Hartley and Shawcross about Capital Gains Tax (to 1.54);
followed by followed by extract from radio programme 'East Anglian Miscellany' about tomb of St Edmund at Bury St Edmunds (to 3.00);
followed by Sam Larner and others reciting rhymes from the sea [extract from 'Singing The Fishing' radio ballad actuality] (to 3.48);
followed by talking about the cuckoo (English in Primary School NATE evidence)
Track 3: Duration (min/sec): 8.17 Description of track: Caroline Hughes sings 'Cuckoo' (to 0.30);
followed by Maggie Cameron talking about pipes (to 3.00);
followed by extract from 'Song of the Road' radio ballad actuality (to 4.15);
followed by extract from 'On The Edge' radio ballad actuality (to 5.50);
followed by extract from modern interpretation of 'Romeo and Juliet' starting 'Now - pink shirt..' (to 6.52)
followed by Ben Davies, miner, talking about being able to speak three languages Welsh, a little English and 'master of the underground language' (extract from 'The Big Hewer' radio ballad actuality) (7.17);
followed by Mrs Wickens a blind woman talking about clouds [from 'The Blind Set']
Track 4: Duration (min/sec): 1.52 Description of track: Ronnie Balls speaking and Ewan MacColl singing opening 'To Make A Fisherman' [Extract from 'Singing The Fishing' radio ballad actuality]
Track 5: Duration (min/sec): 8.23 Description of track: Harry Cox singing 'The Whale Catchers' (c3 mins of silence)
Extracts of former tracks
Total duration: (min/sec): 24.01 |
| Related Material | See lists of actuality and written notes of this lecture at MS 4000/1/3/1/20/1.
See CD recording of the fourth radio ballad 'The Big Hewer', the third radio ballad 'Singing The Fishing' and the sixth radio ballad 'On The Edge'. Accompanying written documentation for the radio ballads is at MS 4000/2/82, MS 4000/2/78 and MS 4000/2/92.
See also written documentation on 'The Blind Set' a BBC Radio 4 programme produced by Charles Parker on the experience of blindness, 1968 (MS 4000/2/124B) |
| Physical Description | Listening copy: 1 x CD-R serial number NF220 T093 8774
Original tape:
Size: 2 x 5" tape reel
Gauge: 1/4" tape (0.625cm)
Speed: 7.5ips (19cm/s);
EQ Curve used: IEC
Track configuration: Half Track Mono
Dubbing Date: 12/02 |
| Access Status | Open |
| Language | English |