| Description | Track 1: Ewan MacColl talks about the history of carols, 1.45 mins
Track 2: Ewan MacColl talks about being moved by Verdi's Requiem Mass and how it appeals on many levels to different people and about the beauty in a 'negro' convict singing, the effects of the Industrial Revolution on the people and on the cities, the factories and slums, 1.51 mins
Track 3: He talks about how men responded to these conditions: revolutionary movements; drinking; or escaping to religion, for example the revival groups, 2.22 mins
Track 4: Peggy Seeger talks about man needing to come to terms with nature and then having to come to terms with man; Ewan MacColl talks about the church drawing a line between its congregation and a group of people who are creative, 1.55 mins
Track 5: He says that a lot of our popular art is 'damned awful' and sings phrases from popular songs he dislikes, 1.40 mins
Total: 9.38 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF573E0684480 |