Ref NoMS 4000/6/1/33/47/C
TitleCD Rom listening copy
LevelItem
Date15 August 1963
Description Actuality with a woman who lived woith travellers for most of her life, Charlotte Lucas.

Track 1: Lucas speaks about learning the travellers' language, and about how the travellers looked after her. 3.58 mins
Track 2: Lucas talks about telling fortunes alongside hawking goods, 3.08 mins
Track 3: Lucas talks about how she and her other hawkers would approach selling from door to door, and about the songs they would sing and stories they told each other as they walked around hawking. 2.18 mins
Track 4: Lucas recounts a ghost story about a doctor who helped a young girl and her mother that lived in a slum tenement.
Track 5: She describes the travelling people that she associated with in her youth, with reference to their illiteracy and their alternative education. 2.57 mins
Track 6: Lucas talks about a traveller and his dog which understood travellers' language. 2.05 mins
Track 7: Lucas and her companion, an adult male talk about salmon fishing without the need for expensive equipment. 3.03 mins
Track 8: The man talks about travelling from place to place with his father 2.32 mins
Tracks 9 - 10: He talks about various travelling people that he has associated with and talks about his Irish father
Track 11: Lucas talks about being called a "buck" by the travellers to mean that she was not born as a traveller, and how that was considered an insult. 4.17 mins

Total: 33.40 mins

Dubber's reference number: PLA KF549C0335980
Extent1
FormatCd-rom
Access StatusOpen
LanguageEnglish
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