| Description | Track 1: Ewan MacColl interviews a man, possibly E Mallet: they talk about the 'race barriers', 'new races coming in', the question of Britain's responsibility to the Commonwealth, his feeling that new immigrants have been 'pushed onto' people in Britain, he says he is conscious of being British and he is glad to be white because white people have better circumstances, Britain is one of the best countries in the world, the church's loss of power
Tracks 2-6: Ewan MacColl interviews a woman, possibly M. Dawson, talks about a competition for the best decorated street; the prize was a bed in the Thornsby hospital. She describes singing and dancing on the street, talks about her mother and another woman collecting money in the street to buy bunting, paint, balloons, and streamers, and presents for the children, a party in the street, bringing a piano into the street, Ewan MacColl asks why the people in the streets wanted to do it, she talks about the neighbourly feeling in the street. Ewan MacColl asks why people don't do things like that now; she says that modern people are less neighbourly and can buy all their entertainment.
Total: 16.27 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF571E396080 |