Item RMO-18789/259336 - Robin Morton Collection. Reel-to-Reel 16 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Gunn, Tommy, speech in English throughout;
Morton, Robin, speech in English throughout

Running Order:
1. Speech: talk about country weddings, mummers (straw-men), music, dance, island weddings, description of a typical wedding, tricks played on the married couple, the dowry
2. Speech: talk about a farmer offering dowries for his three daughters, wedding parties,
3. Speech: talk about a wife's role/duties in the house
4. Speech: talk about the straw-boys
5. Speech: talk about wedding customs, different times to get married, getting pregnant outside of marriage,
6. Speech: talk about special wedding tunes, 'Haste to the Wedding'
7. Speech: talk about the birth of a child, putting silver in the child's hand
8. Speech: talk about death, the wake, clay pipes, carrying the coffin, story about Andy Murphy at a wake
9. Speech: talk about neighbours helping widows with farm work, people dying from the pneumonia, remedies for ailments
10. Speech: talk about people marrying a second time
11. Speech: talk about suicide, customs during a wake
12. Speech: talk about neighbours helping during the funeral
13. Speech: talk about Tom Gunn's earlier years in London, war, the army, going to India [END OF BAND ONE]
14. Speech: talk about going to India, troop-ship, three months at sea, landing in India, 'the north-west frontier', tribesmen disguised as goats, dum dum bullet,
15. Speech: talk about why the army were at the north-west frontier
16. Speech: talk about the first army camp for training (Lady Budburn College) near Calcutta
17. Speech: talk about the Razmac camp at the north-west frontier, jungle warfare training, two weeks leave in Darjeeling, Tiger Hill,
18. Speech: talk about the begining of war, Japanese invasions, fighting at Ramrie Island, Rangoon in 1943, Pagoo, The Arawadi River, northern Burma, the silent century, battles in Burma,
19. Speech: talk about going home on leave in 1943, getting married in London, Vincie Martin, Harry Potter
20. Speech: talk about returning to Calcutta
21. Speech: talk about fighting the Japanese in Siam, the Gurkas, Lord Mount Baton, Sir Oliver Lees, the 14th Army, the Forgotten Army
22. Speech: talk about Wingate, the end of the war and going home