Record

Ref NoMS 4000/6/1/17/30/C
TitleCD Rom listening copy
LevelItem
Date17 March 1960
DescriptionCharles Parker and Ewan MacColl interview Bill Smith, a fisherman from Portessie, Buckie, Scotland.

Tracks 1-3: sounds of boats and the sea, men talking and laughing
Track 4: Bill Smith talks about fishing during the First World War, 1.26 mins
Track 5: continues Track 4, 0.53 mins
Track 6: talks about his first job in the naval dockyard, 1.57 mins
Track 7: talks about shares, 1.28 mins
Track 8: talks about working planting trees and breaking stones for the Forestry Commission during the 1930s, 1.26 mins
Track 9: compares trawling with drifting, talks about his sons and separation from his family, 1.22 mins
Track 10: talks about not wanting his son to become a fisherman, work available in Buckie, 0.55 mins
Track 11: fisherman recites rhymes about the weather, 1.00 mins
Track 12: talks about the changes in fishing in the area since the 1930s, 1.20 mins

Total: 16.45 mins

Dubber's reference number: PLA 3M458B0840574
Extent1
FormatCd-rom
Access StatusOpen
LanguageEnglish
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