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Description: | Maggie talks about her childhood in the 1940s. She recalls the excitement of listening to the radio and describes domestic chores before the introduction of modern appliances. There is some background noise as the original interview took place in the post office. Dick Barton Special Agent refers to the BBC's first daily radio serial, starring private investigator and sometime special agent Dick Barton (played by Noel Johnson). There were 711 episodes broadcast on the Light Programme between October 1946 and March 1951.
lexis
copper = large copper vessel used for cooking and boil washing laundry; scullery = small room attached to kitchen in which washing of dishes and other dirty work is done
phonology
T-glottaling; TH-fronting; frequent L-vocalisation
MOUTH [{:U]; PRICE [QI]; NORTH [O:U]; FACE [{I]; TRAP [{]; STRUT [a]
note also because [bIk@z], little [lId=L/ ~ lI?=L/], sitting [sI?In], kitchEN [kIts@n] and surfACE [s@:f@s]
grammar
there was + plural complement (there was no mats upstairs)
of + general time phrase (before I went to school of a morning) | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | BBC | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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