| Description | Tracks 1 - 9: Actuality with a young men and Charles Parker in Todmorden, West Yorkshire. The young men take turns to recite extracts from the verbatim accounts of children to the Child Employment Commission (1842) in their own Yorkshire accents, directed by Parker who records multiple takes. The extracts are about the experiences of a young boy working in the coal mines.
Tracks 10 - 12: Actuality with people who have been diagnosed as blind in a rehabilitation centre in Torquay, and Charles Parker. This recording appears to have been made as part of the 'Blind Set' project. See MS 4000/6/1/54 for related recordings.
Total: 32.06 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0765380 |