Record

Ref NoMS 4000/6/1/17/51/C
TitleCD Rom listening copy
LevelItem
Date29 February 1960
DescriptionCharles Parker and Ewan MacColl interview Sam Larner, a fisherman from Norfolk, England

Track 1: talks about going to sea on a trawler, the 'Boy Bob', the crew, working gutting fish, 3.17 mins
Track 2: talks about other ships and voyages he made, 1.23 mins
Track 3: Charles Parker asks Sam Larner about his first trip as a deckhand; he talks about teaching the cabin boy how to cook, 1.57 mins
Track 4: talks about getting his first berth on 'The Snowflake', hauling nets, getting paid £14, 2.17 mins
Track 5: talks about going back to being a cook on a trawler, 'The Boy Bob' in 1897, 3.12 mins
Track 6: talks about his pay for fishing in 'The Boy Bob', fishing for mackerel, mackerel making his hands sore, 2.05 mins
Track 7: describes a lifeboat going out to a ship in a storm, seeing a family drowned, 3.42 mins
Track 8: continues Track 7, 1.53 mins
Track 9: talks about miners having disasters same as fishermen, they both carry on, 0.57 mins
Track 10: Ewan MacColl asks Sam Larner about his yearly pay, he talks about courting, 1.54 mins
Track 11: Sam Larner talks about what he used to do for entertainment, singing in pubs, first going to the pub in Yarmouth, 1.54 mins
Track 12: talks about going to the cock fights and boxing, fishing in longshore boats, Ewan MacColl asks about fishing on different grounds, 1.45 mins
Track 13: Sam Larner lists the names of the sailing ships he worked on from 1892 onwards, 2.09 mins
Track 14: talks about working on the steam ships, working as a 'high shipman', 0.51 mins
Track 15: Silence, 3.56 mins

Total: 33.18 mins

Dubber's reference number: PLA KF549C0500980
Extent1
FormatCd-rom
Access StatusOpen
LanguageEnglish
Add to My Items

    Showcase items

    A list of our latest and most exciting new items.