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Ref NoMS 4000/6/1/69/32/C
TitleCD Rom listening copy
LevelItem
DateFebruary 1972
DescriptionEdited clips from the actuality recordings, put together for the radio programme 'Snowballs in Calcutta', together with inserts consisting of programme credits, recordings of Indian folk songs and film music, and songs performed for the programme.

Track 1: clips from actuality recordings about when people were born or how old they are, childhood games and experiences 1.38 mins
Track 2: clips from actuality recordings about political consciousness, with inserts of Indian folk song with female vocals 0.52 mins
Track 3: clips from actuality recordings about when people were born, how old they are, their background and career plans, and their outlook on life in India 2.22 mins
Track 4: clips from actuality recordings about poverty and injustice in India, and the influence of English culture in Indian education 2.47 mins
Track 5: recording of song 'The Vagabond' 0.25 mins
Track 6: clips from actuality recordings about poverty and injustice and the political theories of Capitalism and Marxism 1.37 mins
Tracks 7-8: clips from actuality recordings about the poverty that many people in India live in, the growth of their political consciousness, and their Socialist beliefs, land reform and the struggles of peasants in India, Indian unity and the influence of British imperialism, and reactions to Gandhi and his politics
Track 9: clips from actuality recordings about people's opinions of Gandhi and American culture 3.24 mins
Tracks 10-11: clips from actuality recordings about the Indian film industry and the formula of plot lines
Track 12: man recites poem beginning 'now that the first passion of the lover is gone', clips from recordings of Indian music and from actuality recordings about people's opinions about revolution 2.25 mins
Track 13: recording of Indian song, clips from actuality recordings about people's opinions about revolution, man recites poem beginning 'our feverish brains catch a heap of broken images' 1.41 mins
Track 14: clips from actuality recordings in which a woman reads from a poem or prose with a political theme 2.21 mins
Track 15: programme credits 1.18 mins
Track 16: clips from actuality recordings about the need for political and social change in India 1.13 mins

Total: 30.46 mins

Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0873680
Extent1
FormatCd-rom
Access StatusOpen
LanguageEnglish
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