| Description | Tracks 1 - 3: Actuality with young men and Charles Parker in Knottingley, West Yorkshire. The young people take turns to recite extracts from the verbatim accounts of children to the Child Employment Commission (1842) in North Eastern accents, directed by Parker who records multiple takes. The extracts are about an explosion in a pit as experienced by a young man.
Tracks 4 - 6: Actuality as above, but the extracts are read by an adult man, 'William Harrison'. The subject of the extracts is the working conditions in the mine for children.
Total: 15.07 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF571E0016180 |