| Description | A discussion between Ewan MacColl, Charles Parker, and Peggy Seeger on the technique of the actuality radio ballad. There are featured illustrations taken from some of the programmes they have worked on together.
Track 1: Introduction to programme 1.11 mins
Track 2: Sequence from 'The Ballad of John Axon' 1.41 mins
Tracks 3 - 6: Charles Parker and Ewan MacColl discuss the first ideas they had about the radio ballad 9.79 mins
Track 7: Extract from 'Song of a Road' 3.02 mins
Track 8: Extract from 'Song of a Road' 1.12 mins
Track 9: Conversation about lyric writing in radio ballads - MacColl 2.54 mins
Track 10: Extract from 'Singing the Fishing' 5.21 mins
Tracks 11 - 19: Conversation about the creation of the radio ballads, with references to recording techniques, the instrumentation used in the music, and how the singers in the ballads were accompanied with Charles Parker, Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger
Track 11: 2.35 mins
Track 12: 1.43 mins
Track 13: 1.17 mins
Track 14: 2.11 mins
Track 15: 2.12 mins
Track 16: 2.14 mins
Track 17: 1.49 mins
Track 18: 1.13 mins
Track 19: 2.04 mins
Track 20: Extract from 'Singing the Fishing' 1.00 mins
Total: 44.00 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA 1of2 KF565D0099280 |