| Description | Tracks 1-6: Actuality with Colin Melbourne and Alderman Bennet, Stoke-on-Trent, recorded for 'The Potter's Gift' 1960. Colin Melbourne discusses china, cobalt and glaze, blue printed ware and spode, the creative process of designing patterns for pottery, and the quality of pottery and form. Alderman Bennet discusses the changed atmosphere in Stoke because less smoke is being produced by the pottery industry, though iron and steel works still polluting and talks about the problem of slagheaps
Tracks 7-33: 'Seeds of Love' presented by A. L. Lloyd, BBC Third Programme, undated
Track 7: Programme introduction 0.14 mins
Track 8: Marjorie Westbury sings 'Seeds of Love' 2.20 mins
Track 9: Discussion of opinions about love songs and eroticism in folk music, exploration of English amatory songs which do not often appear unexpurgated in printed collections 1.54 mins
Track 10: Ewan MacColl sings 'Blow away the morning dew' 3.16 mins
Track 11: Discussion of euphemisms, delicate metaphors and erotic meaning in amatory folk songs 0.52 mins
Track 12: A. L. Lloyd sings song beginning 'I wish my love was a red rose grown on yon garden wall..' sung to the tune 'New London' 0.36 mins
Track 13: Discussion of bawdy folk songs embodying ancient ritualistic ideals of love and the survival of trace of 'primitive sex worship' as an analogy with the germination of seeds 1.33 mins
Track 14: A. L. Lloyd sings 'The cheapest grain - the wanton seed' 1.30 mins
Track 15: Discussion of the simple scene set in amatory folk songs
Track 16: Ewan MacColl sings 'The Mower' 2.24 mins
Track 17: Discussion of problem of folk creation in folklore and an early English erotic ballad called 'The talk of ten wives' 2.10 mins
Track 18: Marjorie Westbury sings 'Daughter daughter whistle' 1.52 mins
Track 19: Discussion of different characters and situations in amatory folk songs 0.52 mins
Track 20: A. L. Lloyd sings 'The bird and the bush' 2.10 mins
Track 21: Discussion of ceremonial folk music 1.00 mins
Track 22: Marjorie Westbury sings 'The husband with no courage' 2.16 mins
Track 23: Introduces song sung by south of England quarrymen 0.17 mins
Track 24: Ewan MacColl sings song beginning 'It's of a stone cutter boy returning from his work...' 2.24 mins
Track 25: Discussion of song about a humorous song about a young man paying a night visit to his girl who never removes the badge of his trade, introducing a miner's version 0.27 mins
Track 26: A. L. Lloyd sings 'With me pit boots on' 2.27 mins
Track 27: A. L. Lloyd introduces the sixteenth century fragment 'Western Wind' and recites it, then discusses the song 'The Grey Cock' 0.57 mins
Track 28: Ewan MacColl sings 'The Grey Cock' 2.20 mins
Track 29: Discussion of double sentiment of gaiety and irony in many amatory folk songs and moral ballads 0.52 mins
Track 30: Marjorie Westbury sings 'Lovely Joan' 1.13 mins
Track 31: Discussion of the limited publication and unexpurgated printing of erotic folk songs
Track 32: Ewan MacColl sings 'The foggy dew' 2.24 mins
Track 33: Programme credits 0.26 mins
Total: 57.28 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF573E0691580 |