Record

Ref NoMS 4000/6/1/17/7/C
TitleCD Rom listening copy
LevelItem
Date8 February 1960
DescriptionCharles Parker, Peggy Seeger, and Ewan MacColl interview Mrs Stephen, a Scottish woman who works gutting herring. Probably recorded in Yarmouth.

Tracks 1-8: she talks about coming from Scotland and travelling home for Christmas, her family, what her children do for a living, travelling to work gutting herring, where the good herring fishing is, at Lerwick and Fraserborough, working in the fresh air, enjoys the company
Tracks 9-11: Charles Parker interviews another woman, whose name is not given, about herring gutting; she shows him how to gut a fish; he records the sound of cleaning a herring

Total: 16.46 mins

Dubber's reference number: PLA 2M440A0783474
Extent1
FormatCd-rom
Physical DescriptionSound levels are too high on Tracks 8-10; Track 11 is almost inaudible.
Access StatusOpen
LanguageEnglish
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