| Description | Charles Parker and Ewan MacColl interview Ronnie Balls and Mr Bowles, fishermen from Yarmouth, Norfolk, England:
Track 1: sounds of glass clinking, men talking about folk music', 0.35 mins
Track 2: Ronnie Balls sings part of 'If I were a Blackbird', 0.32 mins
Track 3: Ewan MacColl explains that 'If I were a Blackbird' is a 'Jacobite code song', 0.26 mins
Track 4: Ronnie Balls sings part of 'If I were a Blackbird', 0.51 mins
Track 5: they talk about the song and differences in tunes, Ronnie Balls says that you have to experience fishing to understand it, talks about collecting Scottish bawdy songs, 2.55 mins
Track 6: talks about why Scottish fishermen go fishing - because there's no other work, class difference between fishermen in Scotland and England, development of Scottish fishing communities like Peterhead and Fraserborough; English ports being less dependent on fishing, Scottish people being more religious than English, 3.21 mins
Track 7: Ronnie Balls talks about his religious beliefs, no-one goes to sea voluntarily, sailors' fear of the sea and their feeling of release when they're on shore, 2.57 mins
Track 8: talks about fishermen's working patterns in England and Scotland and distances they travel to the fishing grounds, 2.37 mins
Track 9: talks about English boats fishing on Saturdays and Sundays when the Scottish boats aren't fishing, young people's expectations of life now they are educated, 1.35 mins
Track 10: Background noise, 2.27 mins
Track 11: Ronnie Balls and Mr Bowles talk about ships, 2.16 mins
Track 12: Mr Bowles talks about fishing after the First World War, how the size of cod increased during the War, 2.38 mins
Track 13: talk about prices of cod, 3.55 mins
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Track 16: they talk about dumping herring during the Depression, seeing herring piled up on the quay, numbers of catches in 1959 and 1907, 2.34 mins
Track 17: they talk about 'Black Tuesday' (27 October 1907), and his generation experiencing the loss of markets, being brought up to fishing, 2.35 mins
Track 18: describes seeing herring coming over the side, 'come on my little darlings', 3.18 mins
Track 19: describes holding the net when they're bringing it on board, talks about 'loaders', red herrings, 2.57 mins
Track 20: they talk about Shields, Scotland, 2.52 mins
Track 21: talks about getting his skipper's ticket in 1927 and the first ship he skippered, 3.07 mins
Track 22: 3.25 mins
Track 23: 2.21 mins
Track 24: they talk about loss of Russian herring markets following the First World War, talks about Lerwick harbour, Scotland, fishermen dumping their catch because there's no market, 2.43 mins
Track 25: they talk about the 'small men' doing better during the Depression, and talk about cutting the nets, 2.26 mins
Total: 1.04.47 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D1041480 |