| Description | Tracks 1 - 5: Actuality with an elderly woman (Mrs Walker) from South Yorkshire, and Charles Parker. Mrs Walker talks about the traditional play, 'Old Horse', and why she thinks traditional plays are no longer performed. She includes reference to the Second World War. Mrs Walker talks about the local nobility, the Fitzwilliam family, in her area of Elsecar, South Yorkshire. Mrs Walker describes the players performing at the hall of this family at Christmas. Mrs Walker talks about her antipathy to the players using her house to rehearse.
Tracks 6 - 13: Actuality with people who have been diagnosed as blind, in a workshop with Charles Parker. A man talks about how the workshop is set up to train blind people to use the workshop machinery. The recording also includes an interview with a man talking about the engineering project This recording appears to have been made as part of the 'Blind Set' project. See MS 4000/6/1/54 for related recordings.
Total: 34.20 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0309980 |