Sound Recording, St. Andrews
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]
Metadata
| Identifier | tp88348d |
| IRN | 414921 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A870r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/tp88348d |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Read, John |
| Date | December 1957 |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool, Duration: 57' 05". |