| Description | Track 1: test signal 0.28 mins
Tracks 2-12: 'To Make a Fisherman' comprising actuality and excerpts from songs about herring fishing including 'shoals of herring' and songs sung by speakers. Most of the actuality comes from one speaker (Sam Larner) who talks about the number of men and boys employed in the fishing trade in his village and his first trip to sea when he left school at the age of 12. He discusses the hard work and long hours, and the harsh discipline he received from the older fishermen. Talks about his early work as a cook on board ship before being made deckhand, and learning rhymes about weather conditions to give him practical knowledge. He and other speakers discuss fishermen's relationship with sailing boats, talking to them as if to a human being, and the differences with steam drifters. There is further discussion about hauling nets and best techniques of using them to catch herring, descriptions of a good catch, and the feeling of coming into a harbour with a good catch like being a hunter coming home with meat, with the hunting instinct in men seen in fishing for herring. Speakers take pride in making a livelihood through fishing. Actuality ends with sound effects of nets and sea
Track 13: silence 0.34 mins
Total: 15.33 mins
Dubber's reference number: 2686/PLA KF573E0643580 |