| Description | Track 1: Introduction and readings about estates and landowners, 1.58 mins
Track 2: A discussion about English gentry; Mr. Hastings, 3.34 mins
Track 3: Money and the behaviour expected of the gentry; readings relating to gentry life; 3.11 mins
Track 4: Readings relating to gentry life, including the style of country houses and education, 3.13 mins
Track 5: Readings about gentry life including education and what a new pupil at Eton should bring with them, country houses, 'power', animals kept by the gentry and the death of a groom, 3.11 mins
Track 6: Readings about to gentry life including: Mrs. Boothby-Scrimshaw's son's political aspirations, Lord Bridgewater's house and the self-confidence of the gentry, 2.06 mins
Track 7: Readings about the conduct of landlords; readings gentry life, 2.34 mins
Track 8: Discussion about gentlemen's sons travelling to foreign countries and the nobility and gentry's 'annual visit to the metropolis'; 2.59 mins
Track 9: Discussion about Mr. Hastings; reading of a document which 'deplores the desertion of the country by the gentleman and good yeomanry'; the sale of the 'Baldoon' Estate in 1784 and the resulting changes; discussions about gentry life, including: marriages and clothing, 3.10 mins
Track 10: Discussion about marriages and marriage for money; gentry life including pregnant workers, dog kennels and tenants 2.51 mins
Track 11: Readings about gentry life, including a story relating to brothels, deer hunts, port drinking, sideboards and chamber pots, tenant farmers and a reduction of rent, 3.26 mins
Track 12: Readings about gentry life, including an average gentleman's daily routine, dogs and their keeper, manorial halls, profits of colleries, opposition to the reform bill, 2.54 mins
Track 13: Discussion about gentry life including the stupidity of the gentry, the reform bill, Mr. Hasting, Lord Chesterfield's death, the Duke of Northumberland's death, 2.43 mins
Track 14: The cost of the funeral of the Countess of Darlington; the gentry's profiting from industry (this discussion is cut short); unidentified person recites the net income of the Duke of Bedford's estates, 1832; 2.54 mins
Track 15: the loss of communities; unidentified people discussing voting; unknown song, 2.26 mins
Track 16: Pride and dignity; land owning, 1.16 mins
Track 17: Credits of the programme 'The British Gentleman' which gives the names of the readers, commentators and other people involved in the making of the programme 0.38 mins
Total: 45.06 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA 1of2 KF565D0347080 |