| Description | A previous recording of music can be heard behind the tracks on this CD.
Track 1: Probably BBC Radio News?, 1.14 mins
Track 2: Introduction to the programme, followed by readings and discussion about the sea, 2.23 mins
Track 3: Discussion about numbers of people in the armed forces around the time of the Napoleonic wars; being a soldier; unknown song; reading a recruitment drive for the Navy, 3.05 mins
Track 4: A letter regarding a deserter; unknown song; punishments given to deserters; being in the Navy and on board a ship; unknown song, 3.11 mins
Track 5: People being lured into the Army and 'press-ganged' into the Navy; life as a sailor in the Navy; unknown song, 2.58 mins
Track 6: The hunger of a young soldier?; motives for joining the armed forces; the 'supreme power' of the captain of 'a seventy-four gun ship' and the bosun; conditions on ship and the 'dignity of danger'; unidentified person describes seeing an hundred gun ship; unknown song; enlisting in the Navy; 3.17 mins
Track 7: Description of the main deck of a ship; unknown song; unidentified person describes the lack of privacy on board ship; sailors and prostitutes; unknown song, 3.07 mins
Track 8: Discussion of daily routine (presumably as a sailor); a sailor's life, including class-distinctions at sea, 2.36 mins
Track 9: Punishment and seeing a man die from his punishment; a description of battles; unknown song, 3.01 mins
Track 10: The weight of the sailors' kit; the poor quality of the sailors' food; conditions that bring about mutiny; a petition from sailors regarding poor pay and poor provisions; unidentified person states that service in the Army and Navy should 'fall to the lot of lower ranks of life', 2.25 mins
Track 11: The futility of war; descriptions of battle and their feelings about battle; 3.10 mins
Track 12: Unidentified people describe battle and their feelings towards it and recite stories relating to battle, 3.11 mins
Track 13: Plundering dead soldiers; unidentified person describe battle and their feeling towards it and recite stories relating to battle, 2.54 mins
Track 14: Fatalistic view towards war; unknown song; unidentified people discuss death and injury in battle; unknown song,2.48 mins
Track 15: Readings from letters; the 'dignity of danger' of being in the armed forces; unidentified person describes being discharged from the armed forces; unknown song; description of a ship after 8pm, 3.15 mins
Track 16: Reading from a letter; unidentified person describes joining the Navy; unknown song, 2.37 mins
Track 17: Credits of the programme "The Dignity of Danger" which gives the names of the readers, commentators and other people involved in the making of the programme, 0.54 mins
Track 18: Epilogue, 'The Sword of Spirit' (recording finishes partway through), 3.37 mins
Total: 49.45 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0347280 |