| Description | Charles Parker interviews 'Gypsy' Williams, a traveller from St Albans, about Christianity.
Track 1: 'Gypsy' Williams talks about working to help the traveller community with his wife using fees he gets from preaching sermons; he talks about going to church - he is a member of the Open Brethren in Woking, Surrey. He talks about holding services in Sunday schools and wayside camps, helping travellers with social and welfare issues, visiting them when they are in court or in prison, and discusses the numbers of travellers in the country, 3.35 mins.
Track 2: they talk about the help that the travellers need. Williams says that travellers will welcome anyone who will help their children because children are the most important thing to travellers, he talks about encouraging mothers to send their children to school and holding services for children, encouraging schoolmasters to welcome traveller children, 1.17 mins
Track 3: They talk about the need for the Gospel and Bible among travellers and he talks about the travellers' belief that they are not needed and the rise in the number of travellers who are interested in Christianity, 2.33 mins
Track 4: He talks about prejudice against travellers catching on in every county and the need for permanent camps for travellers which include a place of worship at the centre of the camp. Charles Parker talks about the need for jobs; Mr Williams says that travellers are willing to work and that he has been to the Labour Exchange to ask if they will employ travellers, 2.55 mins
Track 5: Charles Parker asks about the change in attitude towards travellers in the general population. Mr Williams talks about people being afraid of gypsies and the need for permanent camps, and for gypsies to convert to Christianity. He talks about travellers being despised and rejected 1.59 mins
Track 6: He talks about proposals for families to get a licence for their family to move in with them in different parts of the country. He talks about a welfare officer in Hampshire and camps in Hertfordshire, which have travellers who are caretakers responsible for the cleanliness of the camp, 2.32 mins
Total: 14.55 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA EH445A0357674 |