Sound recording of 'A' Roving 4'

MS 4000/5/1/14/14

Sound recording of 'A' Roving 4'

[13 Aug 1968]

Weekly radio programme of interviews, song and music whilst travelling around the British Isles. The programme visits the Isle of Portland off the south coast of England, Dorset and the Hebrides on the west coast of Scotland and interviews include those with Flora [McNeil]

Track 1: Duration (min/sec): 0.24 Description of track: Loud tone

Track 2: Duration (min/sec): 1.44 Description of track: Introduction to radio programme recalling last week's programme (see MS 4000/5/1/14/13) and this weeks contents; explains the 'jigging' tune used for the programme

Track 3: Duration (min/sec): 2.22 Description of track: Song, an Irish blarney chorus song by a pair of 'Liverpool lasses'; move to a stone quarry on Isle of Portland off the coast of Dorset

Track 4: Duration (min/sec): 3.50 Description of track: Talks about traditional equipment and working practice used in the Portland stone quarry; singing in the quarry;

Track 5: Duration (min/sec): 1.51 Description of track: Singing in the quarry; talking about the 'French Song' they sing

Track 6: Duration (min/sec): 0.36 Description of track: Singing the 'French Song'

Track 7: Duration (min/sec): 1.55 Description of track: Move from south coast of England to west coast of Scotland to music played by 'The Kentish Travellers' to the southern most islands in the Hebrides

Track 8: Duration (min/sec): 1.17 Description of track: Talks to Flora [McNeil] about her repertoire of Scots Gaelic traditional songs

Track 9: Duration (min/sec): 1.50 Description of track: Flora [McNeil] sings in Gaelic 'The Misty Mountain'; part translated by interviewer

Track 10: Duration (min/sec): 2.41 Description of track: Song ['Jamboree'] by Colin Wilkie and Shirley Hart with the Twelve Buccaneers move programme back to south coast of England, Portland Bill

Track 11: Duration (min/sec): 4.08 Description of track: Norwegian naval author tells of the wrecking of his ship off this coast; sings a shanty; story behind the composing of the tune 'The Atlantic Roaring' told by John Doherty

Track 12: Duration (min/sec): 3.51 Description of track: John Doherty plays 'The Atlantic Roaring' on the fiddle; John Doherty is a travelling peddlar around Donegal and plays the fiddle and tells stories as he travels

Track 13: Duration (min/sec): 1.31 Description of track: John Doherty plays 'The Flowers of Edinburgh' on the fiddle; introduces Irish group 'The Tinkers' singing song sung by Flora [McNeil] earlier but a different version and in English

Track 14: Duration (min/sec): 5.16 Description of track: 'The Tinkers' singing as detailed in Track 14 [c3 mins of silence at end of track]

Total duration (min/sec): 33.16

<p>See MS 4000/5/1/14/13;15-18 for other programmes in series</p>

English

Listening copy: 1 x CD-R serial number CF129 K006 5774Original tape:Size: 7" tape reelGauge: 1/4" tape (0.625cm)Speed: 7.5ips (19cm/s);EQ Curve used: IECTrack configuration: Half Track MonoDubbing Date: 12/02Notes: Loud tone Track 1

Original tape reel (the tape was originally accessioned as T132 and the dubbing reference number was 152/PLA)

NSA copy of CD-R serial number 2291 2216 3741

Archive master CD-R serial number 2291 2216 3749