Record

Ref NoMS 4000/6/1/31/9/C
TitleCD Rom listening copy
LevelItem
Date25 February 1963
DescriptionCharles Parker interviews Alex Griffiths, a boxing promoter, and members of the Midland Boxing Association.

Tracks 1-19: Alex Griffiths talks about the number of fights, tournaments, boxers' pay, professional prospects, the order of bouts, getting into boxing, promoting fights
Track 20: Recording setup
Tracks 21-25: Lou Phillips, a boxing promoter, Ray Baker, a boxer, Billy James, Secretary of the Midland Boxing Association, an ex-professional boxer, Billy Barton, and Bill Cain, President of the Old Boxers Association, Sammy Twyford, governor of the Barton Arms and former boxer, Bill Doughty, ex-professional boxer, Jack Tranfield professional boxer introduce themselves and give their addresses; Charles Parker asks about the history of the Midland Boxing Association, which was formed in Birmingham to help old boxers, he talks about the membership and hungry boxers, living during the Depression era, payment and exhibitions
Track 26: Recording setup, 0.24 mins
Track 27-28: Charles Parker buys the boxers a drink and asks if they know old songs and ballads - they say they don't
Track 29: Silence, 4.03 mins

Total: 1.06.15 mins

Dubber's reference number: PLA KF549C0352680
Extent1
FormatCd-rom
Access StatusOpen
LanguageEnglish
Add to My Items

    Showcase items

    A list of our latest and most exciting new items.