| Description | Charles Parker interviews a group of travellers in Bishop's Froome, Herefordshire.
Track 1: recording setup, sound of a child crying, a mother talking to a child, asking the child if he likes to be washed, 1.42 mins
Track 2: Charles Parker asks a woman about selling pegs, she talks about other things she makes to sell, he asks about sites, a woman says people don't care about travellers, she says she calls herself a ''gypsy'', 2.25 mins
Track 3: Charles Parker asks a woman traveller what she means by ''gypsy'', she says it means a Romany, that 'gypsies' have a variety of accents depending where they grew up. She says that she grew up in Wales but has travelled around the country, Charles Parker asks what they do in the winter, she talks people not giving her or her husband a job because she does not have a permanent address, 2.04 mins
Track 4: Another woman talks about not being allowed on the ground at Epsom Races and the women discuss whether the government will make caravan sites for travellers, 1.02 mins
Track 5: a man talks about always being told to move on, being sent back to their own county, but they have no county, he talks about not going to school regularly, he can read and write a little, he talks about children not being able to go to school because he has to move for work, he would like to settle down because travelling is a hard life, 2.44 mins
Track 6: a woman says that she wouldn't like to live in a house because she likes living in the fresh air and she wants her children to live in the fresh air, she says that she should not decide for other families, she would like to travel all her life, she talks about doing land work 'since she had her husband'; before this she used to sell flowers, pegs, and lace. A woman says she thinks that there won't be a travellers' life in 20 years' time because it's not possible to work without education these days, 3.28 mins
Track 7: a woman talks about travellers being 'very forward' in their own life, they have televisions and electricity. A woman talks about applying to get a house, 2.34 mins
Total: 16.02 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA AD335C0496374 |