Sound Recordings, Northumberland, Durham, Staffordshire, Nottinghamshire and South Wales
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Northumberland, Durham, Staffordshire, Nottinghamshire and South Wales
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A757r
Creator(s): BBC; Parker, Charles (1919-1980)
Site Location(s): Subject - County Durham, England, United Kingdom( 54.6766, -1.76654 ); Subject - Northumberland, England, United Kingdom( 55.25, -2 ); Subject - Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.1277, -1.01227 ); Subject - Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.8577, -2.03686 ); Subject - Wales, United Kingdom( 52.5, -3.5 )
Date(s): [1950s]
Size and medium: 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool; Duration: 29' 12".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414808
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
'The Big Hewer', the fourth of eight radio ballads transmitted by the BBC Home Service between July 1958 and April 1964. This programme was produced by Charles Parker, written by Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger and broadcast on the 18 August 1961. Continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A756r.
The programme is a documentary about the lives of coal miners in the coalfields of Northumberland, Durham, Staffordshire, Nottinghamshireand South Wales, and incorporates folk songs and actuality. The subjects discussed include drinking among miners, tunnels, water, anthracite coal, coal seams, machine cutters, unemployment in the 1920s/1930s, miners' pride, militancy, humour, health, deaths, mechanisation in mining, working conditions; [announcement - programme title, names of writers, musical directors, singers and instrumentalists, informants, producer].
The contributors on this recording are Ewan MacColl, A. L. Lloyd, Isla Cameron, Lou Killen, Ian Campbell, Joe Higgins, Peggy Seeger (auto harp, guitar, mandolin, 5-string banjo), Alf Edwards (English concertina, harmonica, clarinet), Alfie Kahn (tin whistle), Bryan Daley (guitar), Jim Bray (double bass), Dave Swarbrick, Ben Davies, John Williams, Dafydd Thomas, Evan Williams, Philip Weekes, Dick Beamish, George Newman, Ernest Black, Jack Elliott, Rees Elliott, Johnny Pandrich and George Earl.
Access and usage
Reproduction
Access
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© BBC
Physical and technical conditions
19cm/sec.
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