Traveller Culture

Radio one: Programme on Travellers. It's good so far.

is that bbc radio 1, have u got a link to listen again at all?

Cheers

i missed it too, a link would be Brilliant

The show is called 'More than Museums' and the programme about Travellers is called 'James Collins makes a bucket'.

http://www.rte.ie/radio1/morethanmuseums/

London, it was on RTE radio1 - I'm not sure if you can listen from across the puddle. Good luck. I'd be interested in other people's comments. I thought it was a good programme, especially hearing Travellers talk about culture.

thanks for the heads up longford! pity i missed it tho london try sky radio, they have the rtes on them this is what we need! ways that help us move forward but keep the real things alive!

Yad, if you follow the link in my previous post and select the programme 'James Collins makes a bucket', you should be able to listen to it online. I think you need realplayer to listen to it. Let me know if you have probs and I can try talking you through it.

that was briliant!

do u have the link thats direct to the program as im thick u see and i cant see it. no problem if u havenet

Na your not thick as I had to google it too!
Here you ago: Scroll down a bit to programme three on the page:

http://www.rte.ie/radio1/morethanmuseums/1012976.html

Programme 3: James Collins makes a Bucket - Listen

First broadcast 22nd January, '04

It had become apparent in the 1970s that the Traveller way of life was under serious threat in Ireland. There was a more general drift towards the towns but, in the case of Travellers, this was exacerbated and accelerated because the traditional trade of tin-smithing had become an anachronism - killed off by the ubiquity of plastic. Income was lost and to qualify for social welfare payments a permanent address was a necessity.

For the majority of Travellers today the open road is but a memory. Yet travellers insist they remain different and continue to value their separateness. Besides the tin-smiths, who were a vital part of the rural economy, Traveller musicians like the Keenans and Doran played an important role in the survival of Traditional Music. Travellers had told stories and brought news. They operated as migrant workers before the arrival of mechanisation.

In this programme James Collins, one of the few remaining tin-smiths, makes a bucket while a group of Traveller women discuss the importance of their culture - a culture that is still linked to the notion of the open road, something they all clearly yearn for.

thank u v much Guiney gonna listen 2 that rite now. Thanks

yeh that was good that!

Great!! I can make one not as good as the da but at least it doenst leak much. anyone make horseshoes too?