Catalogue description Sound recording of Betsy Miller (born c.1886) reading from the Child Employment Commission Reports of 1841, and talking about her Scottish accent, education and working life.

Track 1: Duration (min/sec): 0.14 Description of track: [silent start to tape]

Track 2: Duration (min/sec): 10.38 Description of track: BM reading the Isabel Hogg passage from the Child Employment Commission Reports, 1841; number of takes; CP particularly interested in her pronunciation and inflection with long drawn out vowels

Track 3: Duration (min/sec): 2.38 Description of track: talks about her Scottish accent and being Scottish; been in England for 55 years

Track 4: Duration (min/sec): 4.56 Description of track: talks about her education and school in Canelon, Falkirk; rhyme they sang; Scottish accent

Track 5: Duration (min/sec): 1.57 Description of track: mentions her work in a pawn brokers in Canelon

Track 6: Duration (min/sec): 0.16 Description of track: [noises as side 2 of reel started]

Track 7: Duration (min/sec): 1.48 Description of track: tells some pawn broking stories of poverty stricken people

Track 8: Duration (min/sec): 1.38 Description of track: talks about men drinking and blames bad house keeping for their downfall

Track 9: Duration (min/sec): 4.18 Description of track: continues talking about the pawn broking business

Track 10: Duration (min/sec): 1.28 Description of track: talks about meeting her husband when she was lodging with his aunt and uncle; fond memories

Track 11: Duration (min/sec): 6.55 Description of track: talks again about being in service to a minister in Glasgow (see MS 4000/ 5/1/3/2)

Track 12: Duration (min/sec): 7.04 Description of track: BM reads Isabel Hogg again; number of takes

Total duration (min/sec): 43.52

See CD recording of the sixth radio ballad 'On The Edge' originally transmitted on the BBC Home Service in February 1963. Accompanying written production documentation on the radio ballad is at MS 4000/ 2/92.

Original tape reel (the tape was originally accessioned as T19 and the dubbing reference number was 64/PLA)

NSA copy of CD-R serial number 2296 2217 5682

Archive master CD-R serial number 2296 2217 5681