| Description | Tracks 1-4: Recordings of children's speech lessons at the York Academy of Speech and Drama, in which children are taught not to speak in regional accents
Track 5: Mrs Savage, a teacher at the York Academy of Speech and Drama, reads a passage from the York Mystery Plays in standard English, 1.17 mins
Track 6: Charles Parker talks to Mrs Armstrong about 'the backward North Country tone' and whether Mystery Plays should be presented in regional accents; she says that overseas visitors who come to see the plays will not be able to understand Yorkshire English, they talk about the 'slovenly speech' of the students she teaches, 3.44 mins
Track 7: Charles Parker talks to a girl called Clare about why she takes elocution and drama lessons - they discuss whether she should lose her Yorkshire way of speaking, 1.00 mins
Track 8: Mrs Savage asks a child called Ian to read a passage from 'Paddington Bear', 1.12 mins
Track 9: Sounds of machinery and voices, 3.48 mins
Track 10: Sounds of machinery, conversation with a group of women who are looking round York Minster, 1.23 mins
Track 11: Interview with a carpenter who works in York Minster, he used to work on nuclear submarines, 1.37 mins
Track 12: noise of machinery, 1.12 mins
Total: 22.51 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D1005080 |