| Description | Charles Parker interviews Mr MacCall Boyd, headmaster of Oakdale Junior School in Poole, Dorset, about children from the travelling community at the school. Charles Parker also talks to some of the children at the school.
Track 1: Mr MacCall Boyd talks about his expectations about the travelling children's knowledge about nature and wildlife, and the reality of their knowledge. He states that they have a strong sense of colour and are not keen to conform to the black and white school uniforms, and that many of the children tell vivid stories which he thinks they must have heard from their own parents and grandparents 2.59 mins
Track 2: he talks about the lack of religious understanding of the traveller children, and their sense of superstition, which he thinks have been amplified by the prejudices of the general public. He thinks they have a sense of there being a supreme being, and that their religion is very sincere. He says that they want to play the same games as children from the settled community, though they seem to have less conception of team work 3.48 mins
Track 3: he discusses his interest in the travelling community and his pleasure at having traveller children in his school. He thinks that travellers make a contribution to society and that they are a fascinating group of people 1.42 mins
Track 4: he talks about the need to treat people as human beings, to make people recognise their own responsibilities, and that the good in people will come out. He thinks there is too much emphasis on the badness in people. He considers the reasons for negative attitudes towards travellers which he thinks is partly due to the jealousy of the settled community of their freedom 3.08 mins
Track 5: Charles Parker asks a group of children to explain the game they are playing 1.08 mins
Track 6: sounds of children playing a game 0.22 mins
Track 7: Charles Parker talks to Brian Bond, a child from the traveller community, about his education at the school, his friends, and the games he plays 2.01 mins
Track 8: Charles Parker asks a group of children about their school routine, and asks Brian Bond whether he has school dinners, sounds of children playing and running in the playground 2.20 mins
Total: 17.30 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA 7L44B00357874 |