| Description | Assembly of cue material consisting of edited clips from the actuality recordings, put together for the radio programme 'The Blind Set', together with inserts consisting of programme introduction and credits, and songs performed for the programme.
Track 1: clips from actuality recordings, extracts from folklore and folk song about blindness 3.07 mins
Track 2: clips from actuality recordings, extracts from folk song 2.54 mins
Track 3: Ewan MacColl recites a poem beginning 'Look, where he goes he interrupts the town', clips from actuality recordings and folk song 2.29 mins
Tracks 4-6: clips from actuality recordings about employment for blind people, clips from 'Gaol Song', song beginning 'Oh when I was a little boy that's when the earth was young' and song beginning 'I like to be there when the engine starts' sung by Ewan MacColl
Track 7: Ewan MacColl sings song beginning 'Though my sight is gone forever', clips from actuality recordings 3.37 mins
Track 8-11: clips from actuality recordings about the rehabilitation process for people who have lost their sight, with reference to mobility and training in the use of the long cane, extracts from folklore, rhymes and songs about blindness
Track 12: Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger sing unidentified folk song 1.00 mins
Track 13: programme credits, clips from actuality recording with Lee Farmer, United States Veterans Administration at Torquay
Total: 33.06 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0965080 |