| Description | Charles Parker and Ewan MacColl interview Mr and Mrs Jim West and Ann Oldman, a fisherman's wife, from Gardenstown, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Tracks 1-11: (volume very low on Tracks 1-5, parts of the track are inaudible) Mr and Mrs Jim West talk about aspects of their lives as a fishing family, with reference to the difficulties and dangers of being at sea, government policy on herring fishing, and difficulties in taking family holidays;
Tracks 12-22: Ann, the widow of a fisherman from Gardenstown, talks about her thoughts and experiences of being a fisherman's wife, her father, who was also a fisherman, how she met her husband, who was a fisherman from Lowestoft, how he came back to England to work, his death from thrombosis, and her feelings about his death.
Track 23: an unnamed fisherman talks about fish gutting.
Total: 1.06.29 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0266080 |