Cassette.

The interview was made on 27 May, 1972.

Side 1. Transcribing 1935-8, collecting methods, Dictaphone and portable typewriter, Bell Duncan, folk play from a deaf man, singers pitch too high, transposition of songs, singers were pleased, using the Dictaphone, 1928 went to Ireland, impressions of Ireland and Irish people, sailor's tale, northern Irish, southern Irish had no ballads and no shanties, Scott shanty singer in East London, story about trying to buy some paper, stayed on Montague Street in London, English educational system, chronology of collecting trip, bought car, travelled up the coast, first ballad singer in Dundee, trouble with dialect, finding singers, lists places he visited in autumn 1929, shanty singers were scarce, Marjorie (his niece), other collectors have a lot of poor stuff -- Side 2. Ballad collecting methods, jog the memory of singers, 'Wife of Usher's Well', singers and books, Bell Duncan remembering stanzas later, The science of picking memories, Bell Duncan description, Scottish cleanliness and homelife, Nichol of Strichen Buchan's ballad singer, 'Auld Maitland', better version than Buchan's, play collecting while based in Oxford, bought another car, sleeping in the car, didn't like the pubs, hospitality of the rural people, location of plays collected, compares his collection of plays with Tiddy's, play collecting methods, impressed by the number of plays he found, Yorkshire sword dance play from four members of same group, use of portable typewriter, dialect in the plays, context of plays, long pause, recites part of a play and explains the words, Scottish dialect, Carpenter asks Jabbour about collecting and the Archive of Folk Song.