| Description | A set of actualities with Scottish travelling people.
Tracks 1 - 2: Actuality with a group of people from the Scottish travelling community. They discuss their attitude to money and the steroetype that wider society has of them being dishonest, despite them trying to earn "an honest living".
Track 3: An adult female traveller sings 'Berry Fields O'Blair', a traditional song describing the life of seasonal farm workers in Scotland, 2.54 mins
Track 4: Silence, 1.05 mins
Tracks 5 - 11: Actuality with a adult woman, Charlotte Lucas, and Ewan MacColl. Lucas talks about her family background and why her parents moved to Scotland from Bristol, England and from Ireland. Lucas describes working as a hawker with a group of travelling young women during her adolesence, with reference to singing on the streets and how they spilt the work between them. Lucas describes at times eating with people in their houses. She describes telling people's fortunes for money and describes her method with eggs and crystal balls. She talks about the hospitable nature of travelling people. Lucas describes the food that she ate in her youth and about bartering for food. She describes the farm work that she has done in the past.
Total: 35.28 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF549C0335880 |