| Description | Track: 1 Silence 0.10 mins
Tracks 2-11: 'To Make a Fisherman' comprising actuality and excerpts from songs about herring fishing including 'shoals of herring' and songs sung by speakers. See MS 4000/6/1/44/1/C for track listings.
This is followed by actuality of Gordon Greenhalgh, recorded 12 March 1967 for the 'BD8' programme (Tracks 12-14), discussing the transcription of books for blind people.
Track 12: Greenhalgh discusses the limited amount of literature transcribed for blind people who are denied choice. Seen as scandalous if blind people want erotic or pornographic literature to be transcribed. Talks about transcribing a book by Harold Robbins for a group of blind people 3.48 mins
Track 13: Thinks that it's good for blind people to have a new kind of literature to read. Feels he would be vilified by society if he transcribed erotic literature for blind people, and the press would report that an ex convict was transcribing pornography for blind people. Blind people can't lead a full life when their access to literature is limited. Charles Parker comments on the authoritarian state of control of people with disabilites 2.25 mins
Track 14: Charles Parker comments that the programme is called BD8 because he sees analogies between the life lived by blind people and the situation for inmates of concentration camps, with boundaries imposed on them from outside. Greenhalgh talks about society's attitudes towards blind people, who he thinks are kept in a position of dependence. 2.37 mins
Track 15: Silence 6.02 mins
Total: 29.42 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF573E0691480 |