| Description | Charles Parker interviews several women at Bishop's Froome, Herefordshire.
Track 1: A woman talks about her mother, who lives in a caravan on a site and is not able to travel and work, but would like to travel if someone could drive her horses. She says that her father left her mother when she was five, and that she is one of 21 children. She explains that her mother will not go in a house, 2.40 mins
Track 2: she talks about being brought up to be a traveller, and says that being a traveller is in the blood. She talks about selling to get a living and says that she doesn’t believe in education. She says that she would settle in a green field, but she likes to keep moving because she needs fresh people and fresh minds. She talks about her father and rubbing themselves with hedgehog oil to cure aches and pains, living off the land. She says she is proud of the way she was raised, and talks about going selling and asking for old clothes for her children, 4.05 mins
Track 3: another woman says that children should have education and they will need education to get jobs because they can't deal in metal in the same way that they used to. She talks about traveller children being healthy and doctors and health visitors thinking they're dirty. Another woman talks about asking for food, 2.33 mins
Track 4: noise in a pub 1.11 mins
Track 5: a woman sings a song beginning 'I was a blackbird', 2.28 mins
Track 6: A man sings 'You'll never walk alone', 1.29 mins
Track 7: A man sings a song beginning 'The stars will remember the night we said goodbye', 2.52 mins
Total: 17.20 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA AD335C0496474 |