| Description | The speakers on this programme are not identified.
Track 1: 'Masters and abject dependents'; unknown song; a description of 'a horrible room' occupied by a 'dozen haggard, untidy men', 1.57 mins
Track 2: Gentlemen and ladies; Friedrich Engels; workers; weaving; unknown song; football, 2.59 mins
Track 3: Working in a cellar as a weaver; being a child; work turning people into machines, 3.18 mins
Track 4: How the poor must be kept poor in order to remain industrious; working in the mines; unknown song; children describe working in the mines, 3.16 mins
Track 5: A discussion about a man called Francis Place - there is some recitation of his memoirs and comparisons with Disraeli; unknown song; discussion about Glasgow, 3.16 mins
Track 6: The movement of people from villages and market towns into large cities; the introduction of machinery and workmen's reaction to it, 2.58 mins
Track 7: Wages; a mob; gin and its effects on society; 3.23 mins
Track 8: The Luddite movement; unknown song, 2.28 mins
Track 9: The destruction of threshing machines; workers' worsening conditions and the conditions of work for children, 2.55 mins
Track 10: The hand-loom weaver and his working conditions; unknown song; a description of how workers are too tired to do anything once they finish work; unidentified person talks about chimney sweeps and child labour, 2.58 mins
Track 11: 'Elizabeth' describes her work in a flax mill, including her deformity and her long hours of work; A discussion about 'bending of the back' as a result of working in the factories; Coventry and its population of paupers; unknown song; crime and its prevalence amongst the proletariat; the number of capital crimes, 3.25 mins
Track 12: The number of executions between 1782 and 1841 in Lancashire; unknown song; the squalid conditions in England; crime arising as a result of starvation; the need to uphold the rights of property; 3.20 mins
Track 13: Crime and punishment and transportation of criminals to the Australian colonies; unknown song; being 'transported', 2.41 mins
Track 14: Protests; transportation; unknown song; a man discusses his belief that the working classes need to help themselves, 3.06 mins
Track 15: Credits of the programme 'The Two Nations' which gives the names of the readers, commentators and other people involved in the making of the programme, 1.19 mins
Track 16: The epilogue, 'Thy Will Be Done' (recording finishes partway through), 2.00 mins
Total: 45.21 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA 1of2 KF573E0537380 |