| Description | Tracks 1-5: Ewan MacColl talks to M. Brown: they discuss his views on the monarchy, his feelings about being English and his family history and his Irish and Lithuanian ancestry; his identification with industries in Teeside; he talks about slums in Teeside and the need to improve living conditions - this hasn't happened although the industry has the money; his memories of the Coronation in 1953, not enjoying processions and pageantry; he believes that pageantry encourages prejudice; how he would feel if he met the Queen - he would treat her like anyone else; whether the monarcy has any useful function, perhaps in Rhodesia or in the case of a nuclear war; compares belief in monarchy to a belief in God
Track 6: Silence, 2.34 mins
Total: 16.56 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KFKF573E0686380 |