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Sound Recording, St. Andrews

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A870r

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recording, St. Andrews

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A870r

Creator(s): Read, John (1884-1963)

Site Location(s): Subject - Somerset, England, United Kingdom( 51.0833, -3 )

Date(s): December 1957

Size and medium: 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool; Duration: 57' 05".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414921

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

[Collector announcement]; Professor John Read, reading extracts from his book, 'Farmer's Joy' (Edinburgh: Nelson, 1949). The first is from chapter nineteen, The Camel Play Actors, in which he gives an account of the production in 1912 of his Somerset dialect play, [?Conjurer Linton], at Queen Camel. [Tr. 2]


[Collector announcement - other extracts from 'Farmer's Joy']; John Read reads 'The Old Inn' ( 'The Punchbowl'). [Tr. 3]


[Collector announcement]; John Read reads 'In the Cider Orchard'. [Tr. 4]


[Collector announcement]; John Read reads 'The Story of Vall-Teacher'. [Tr. 5]


[Collector announcement]; third of three 'Tales o' Zam'el Toop', from the collector's first dialect book, 'Wold Ways A-Gwain: Scenes from a Western Countryside', published in Yeovil in 1914 (and dedicated to Thomas Hardy). Collector reads 'How Zam'el Got Upsides Wi' Camel Clock'. [Tr. 6]

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Physical and technical conditions

9.5cm/sec. Loud background hum throughout.

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