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Radio Ballads Scripts
MacColl, Ewan (1915-1989); Parker, Charles (1919-1980)
1958-1960
This file contains four typed transcripts of production scripts for programmes in the BBC's Radio Ballads series, by Ewan MacColl and Charles Parker. These are a copy of the production script for 'The...
The Dialect of Miners in Ashington, Northumberland
Thompson, Brenda J
1968
A study of the dialect spoken in Ashington, Northumberland, based on interviews with five miners, all of whom had worked (or still were working) at Ashington Colliery. The Introduction includes biog...
Sound Recordings, Northumberland, Durham, Staffordshire, Nottinghamshire and South Wales
BBC; Parker, Charles (1919-1980)
[1950s]
'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 Pegg...
Sound Recordings, Northumberland, Durham, Staffordshire, Nottinghamshire and South Wales
BBC; Parker, Charles (1919-1980)
[1950s]
'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 Pegg...
Sound Recordings, Kent
Barry, Michael V (1935-)
1958-1959
[Collector announcement]; Charles Joiner, recorded in Staple in December 1958; talks about storing apples in earth; first thatching job, aged fifteen/sixteen; describes thatch sewn onto barn roofs; hi...