Record

Ref NoMS 4000/6/1/17/55/C
TitleCD Rom listening copy
LevelItem
Date1 March 1960
DescriptionCharles Parker interviews Sam Larner

Track 1: Test tone, 0.24 mins
Track 2: Sam Larner talks about being ill and going to the doctor, who advised him to leave fishing, 2.20 mins
Track 3: talks about singing 'The Englishman' at a British Legion dinner, 2.11 mins
Track 4: talks about getting a job on the roads and working on the road outside his cottage, talks about fishing being harder work than the roads, 1.21 mins
Track 5: talks about 'taking the rough and smooth in life' and saving money, 1.48 mins
Track 6: talks about earning enough money to live and keep his wife, talks about his rent, bills, and old age pension, 1.59 mins
Track 7: talks about having savings in the bank when he left fishing; being in a savings club with other fishermen; Charles Parker asks about fishermen being individualists and co-operation among fishermen, 1.46 mins
Track 8: they talk about diesel motor drifters, and compare them to steam drifters, 1.37 mins
Track 9: Sam Larner talks about the best boats he's been in, 2.22 mins
Track 10: Sam Larner tells a story about a skipper who killed a boy, 2.21 mins
Track 11: they talk about when this might have happened, probably in the 1880s, the cruelty of the trawling fleet, 2.02 mins
Track 12: talks about his father, 0.24 mins
Track 13: Silence, 0.46 mins

Total: 21.25 mins

Dubber's reference number: PLA KF549C0500380
Extent1
FormatCd-rom
Access StatusOpen
LanguageEnglish
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