| Description | Tracks 1 - 3: Actuality with young women and Charles Parker in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. The young women 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 conditions of working in a pit as young women and about how they missed going to school.
Tracks 4 - 5: Actuality as above, but the extracts are read by an adult man. The subject of the extracts is the working conditions in the mine for children.
Track 6: One of the young women ('Elizabeth Hegley') reads an extract in which a young miner describes her life, work, illiteracy and church attendance, with direction by Parker.
Total: 16.26 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0435780 |