Accession Number

B129

Series Title

LANCASHIRE LADS

Programme Title

EDWIN WAUGH NO. 1

Producer

Tony Broughton

Other Credits

Editor: Ken Langston Jones

Transmission Date

06/08/82

colour , sound (sep), 09 mins 54 secs

Synopsis

First programme in the series Lancashire Lads. Tells the story of Edwin Waugh (1817-1890), Lancashire dialect poet and prose writer born in Rochdale, written and narrated by Bill Grundy. Poems featured include "Come Whoam to thi childer" and "Oh lay me down in moorland ground". Waugh's poems are spoken and sung out of view by Judith Barker, Karen Petrie, Geoffrey Banks, Russell Dixon and Ian Mercer with strong Lancashire accents. Various images are shown: children drawing in a garden, a sleeping baby, a cemetery. There are shots of "Waugh's Well", a memorial to Edwin Waugh on moorland near Edenfield.