| Description | Tracks 1 - 7: Actuality with Mrs Dalton and her friend Hilda Carr and Charles Parker. The two women are elderly members of Silkstone, West Yorkshire, mining community. The two women discuss the Yorkshire dialect and the different way that the younger generation speak. They also talk about how they cannot understand written broad Yorkshire despite speaking broad Yorkshire themselves, and they discuss going to Newcastle and hearing other accents and regional speech. The two women discuss songs from their youth and speak a little about the difference between people that attend the grammar school those that went to work at the mill instead. The two women discuss old sayings that they would use.
Tracks 8 - 11: A Yorkshire man, Jim Gough, recites an extract about the morality and nature of young women who worked in the mines in the nineteenth century. He does multiple takes directed by Charles Parker.
Tracks 12 - 13: Actuality with a Yorkshire woman and Charles Parker, she talks with Parker about why she feels more comfortable speaking in her broad Yorkshire dialect and accent. She gives her opinion on why broad accents and dialect were frowned upon at that time, and the benefits of being able to speak both broad and standard dialects.
Total: 31.32 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0312880 |