| Description | The speakers on this programme are not identified.
Track 1: Unknown song; a description of being out of work and travelling because of lack of work, 1.58 mins
Track 2: A discussion of 'men on trunk' (?); selling goods; getting 'sacked'; travelling because he was unable to find work; unidentified person describes travelling, 2.42 mins
Track 3: Discussion about being freed from 'bonds and indentures'; travelling; group sizes of men travelling to find work, 2.49 mins
Track 4: A man talks about 'Sam the singer'; travelling for work; unknown song; a description of staying in a 'barn at the rear of a pub', 3.15 mins
Track 5: Travelling and starving and having to steal food; stealing; unknown song; working in a dairy and then going to sea; unknown song, 3.32 mins
Track 6: A discussion about going drinking? (the speaker's accent makes it difficult to understand exactly what is being said); unknown song; a description of selling his clothes and belongings, 2.22 mins
Track 7: The effect of the summer harvest on the numbers of travellers and the fact that workers were expected to carry their tools with them in order to get a job; unknown song; a man explains that he has decided to become an 'animal trainer', 2.22 mins
Track 8: A discussion about August and September - the 'height of the travelling season'; joining 'the world famous menagerie of wild beasts of George Wumwell'; unidentified person discusses being a 'hand seller'; unidentified person discusses trying to be employed as an actor; 1.41 mins
Track 9: Continues Track 8; unidentified person discusses the money that was made from performing, 1.58 mins
Track 10: People talk about aspects of 'theatrical entertainment', including Punch and Judy booths; working at the fair; a person gives a sales pitch, 3.00 mins
Track 11: Sales pitches for various goods; elephants at the fair, 3.13 mins
Track 12: The wages of a clown; unidentified people discuss going to London; 3.16 mins
Track 13: Busking and 'travelling showman'; 2.33 mins
Track 14: The movement of travellers after the harvest and the fairs had finished (i.e. Autumn/Winter) and the jobs that the travellers would find in the towns during Winter, 3.21 mins
Track 15: The movement of travellers during the Spring, 2.19 mins
Track 16: Credits of the programme 'Wayfarers' which gives the names of the readers, commentators and other people involved in the making of the programme; start of programme 'Storytime' (track finishes mid-sentence), 1.15 mins
Track 17: Silence, 23.52 mins
Total: 01.05.30
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D1002780 |