Ref NoMS 4000/6/1/31/5/C
TitleCD Rom listening copy
LevelItem
Date22 February 1963
DescriptionCharles Parker interviews a group of boxers, including Tommy Fields, a black boxer from America, Harry Burgess, a trainer, Brian McCaffery, and Frankie Taylor, from London.

Tracks 1-7: Tommy Fields talks about how it feels to win and lose a fight, they talk about 'dirty fighting', which was worse before the War, poverty and 'hungry fighters', 'fighting to eat', crime, tells a story about his father attacking another man during work, the Klu Klux Klan
Track 8: Sound of people training in a gym
Track 9-11: Harry Burgess talks about professional boxing training, his family and background
Track 12: Frankie Taylor talks about gumshields
Tracks 13-16: Brian McCaffery talks about his amateur boxing career, how he became a boxer, his situation in London, the relationship between boxers
Track 17: Silence
Track 18-22: Brian McCaffery talks about the sport and tradition of boxing, boxers' temperament, the attitudes of boxers, how society views boxers.

Total: 1.07.03 mins

Dubber's reference number: PLA KF549C0352680
Extent1
FormatCd-rom
Physical DescriptionThe speed is occasionally too fast on Track 22.
Access StatusOpen
LanguageEnglish
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