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 INDEX TO AUDIO CLIPS

This index groups the audio clips by general theme.  Click on either the wma (right click) or mp3 link next to the clip to hear the recording.  Click here for information about downloading audio clips.

CONTRIBUTOR

CLIP TITLE

CD REF

LENGTH

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AGRICULTURE

Ken Baker

Using a scythe

1/5

2:21

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Peter Batchelor

Reproductive life of the bee

1/5

2:22

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Gwen Burnell

Rearing poultry

1/3

1:35

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Arthur Heywood

Town versus country

1/6

1:32

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Lady Rosemary Hills

Catching mice at Cannington Farm Institute

1/1

1:47

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Frances Jenkins

Haymaking and rook shooting parties

1/3

2:26

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Frances Newton

Grandfather Fisher, tying the wool at 88

1/3

2:26

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David Ridd

Preparing sheep for showing

1/7

2:11

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Pam Wyatt

Running the farm

2/2

1:45

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Tom Yandle

Hurdling turnips

2/5

1:26

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BELIEFS
         

Harry Horrobin

CND and Dulverton home defence

2/3

2:27

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CHILDHOOD
         

Leslie Norman

Family & first pair of britches

2/8

2:02

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Ben Halliday

Chasing seals with Captain Woodward, as a boy

2/5

2:20

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Gwen Kirby

Father and the Great Western Railway tea basket

2/3

2:11

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Ken Oxenham

Sailing to Swansea

1/1

1:51

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Harold Reeves

First ferret

1/7

2:38

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Tom Richards

Childhood games

1/3

2:03

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Tony Takle

Building a hut in the wood

2/5

2:13

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Alma Tunstall

Childhood mealtimes

1/1

2:12

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CHURCH
         

Bill Partridge

Pausing in Luccombe church

2/4

1:47

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DOMESTIC LIFE
       

Horace Crang

Deliveries to Slattenslade, Martinhoe

1/4

1:49

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Millie Curtis

Mother, doing the washing

1/4

2:10

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Leslie Delbridge

Flooding at Woolcombe Farm, Sandyway

1/6

2:30

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Maud Harding

Selling cream from Torre Farm, Winsford

2/3

2:10

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Chris Nelder

Feral cats at Hartford Bottom, Brompton Regis

2/6

1:42

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Dick Rawle

Looking after himself

2/2

2:26

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Ada Tucker

Coming home to West Ilkerton after dances

2/1

1:39

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Olive Vigars

Working life since retirement

3/4

2:00

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HISTORIC EXMOOR
       

John Edwards

The Baker charity, Exford

3/1

2:01

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Lady Margaret Fortescue

Family background and the Fortescue estate

1/2

2:11

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Julian Luttrell

Parents' commitment to Dunster Castle estate

1/2

2:17

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HUNTING
         

John Blackmore

First hunt

1/8

2:15

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Dick Lloyd

Enjoying the hunt

2/5

1:46

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Dudley Parsons

Driving people hunting

3/3

1:48

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Ronnie Wallace

History of anti-hunting protest

2/7

2:00

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LANDSCAPE
         

Jim Collins

One of the most beautiful parts of the world

3/8

2:23

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Ann le Bas

Painting on the moor

2/1

2:20

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Ann MacEwen

Developing an interest in the countryside

1/9

2:05

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Maj-Gen Dare Wilson

The jewels in the landscape

2/7

2:01

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LYNMOUTH FLOOD, 1952

Derek Bales

Lynmouth flood, arriving with the army at Brushford

1/2

1:31

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Ted Lethaby

Lynmouth flood, ferrying passengers by bus

2/3

2:33

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Muriel Pearcey

Lynmouth flood, Brendon

2/4

1:47

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John Pedder

Lynmouth flood, the next day

2/7

1:48

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Peter Steer

Lynmouth flood, Exford

2/5

1:49

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MEDICAL
         

Dr Maurice Hardman

Visiting patients in his Brendon Hills practice

2/2

2:16

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Dr Ernest Mold

Mental health provision

2/6

2:09

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Hilda Parham

Giving birth at home

3/6

1:56

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PEOPLE
         

Paddy Kennedy

Jack Thorne, Bury blacksmith and taxi driver

1/5

2:27

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Mary Schofield

Friendship with Alfred Munnings

2/2

2:01

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SCHOOLDAYS
         

Walter Barwick

Miss Hayes and the cane

3/8

2:36

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Stan Curtis

Simonsbath School

1/2

2:21

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Alvina Irwin

Mrs Simpson, Kentisbury schoolteacher

1/6

2:05

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Tom Troake

Disciplined, then and now

1/3

2:08

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Gerald Winzer

Monica Little, riding to school at Exford

1/8

1:45

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VILLAGE LIFE
         

Edna Clatworthy

Keeping things going in the village

2/5

1:43

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VISITORS
         

Jean Campbell

Stabling the Munnings' horses

1/2

1:39

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Ada Richards

Taking in visitors

1/4

1:52

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WARTIME
         

Alan Bawden

The rabbit train in wartime

2/1

2:19

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Dennis Corner

Plane crash on Porlock beach

2/4

2:37

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John Milton

Poaching salmon during the war

1/5

2:18

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Bob Reed

Joining Churchill's secret army

1/3

2:00

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Jim Smale

General Eisenhower and the US army camp

2/6

2:12

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Arthur Webber

Mapping Cutcombe parish wells for the Americans

1/7

2:28

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David Westcott

War Agriculture Committee and ploughing

1/7

1.54

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WEATHER
         

Hope Bourne

Iron frost at Ferny Ball, Withypool

2/6

2:27

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Tom Rook

Rescuing sheep behind Porlock pebble ridge, 1996

1/7

2:35

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Joan Smith

Surviving winter at Glenthorne

1/7

1:46

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Cyril Wyburn

The winter of 1947

1/7

1:53

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WORK
         

Maurice Chidgey

Lino-type printing at the West Somerset Free Press

1/3

2:08

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Dr Glyn Court

Running Washford post office

1/10

2:24

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Jean Gabb

Collecting the fish for Pixton Park, Dulverton

1/4

1:34

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Stanley Hooper

Carting sand from Bossington beach

1/3

1:48

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Tom Lock

Bark ripping & selling cider, Hawkridge

1/2

2:01

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Norah Mackney

Buying hats for the drapery business

1/6

1:32

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Frank Morgan

Early days at Luxborough shop

2/6

2:09

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Ben Norman

Unloading steamships at Watchet harbour

1/2

1:53

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Fred Radley

Keeping dry with West of England sacks

1/3

2:14

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Brian Windsor

Butchering, disposing of the entrails

2/9

2:21

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