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SHIPS INDEX| THE SONGS| INTERVIEWS| GALLERY PAST| GALLERY PRESENT| VIDEO| CREDITS| BACKGROUND| HAVE YOUR SAY

Tyne shipyard break

The 2006 Radio Ballads have taken a year to make and many thousands of hours of interviewing, writing, editing, songwriting, recording, mixing and producing.

These are the people who worked on The Ballad of the Big Ships
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IntervieweesThe Tyne Micky Blench, Bill Cockcroft, Edith Corby, Eddie Darke, Mel Davis, Jackie Green, Les Hodgson, John Hunter, Eddie Jackson, Jaap Kroese, Alan Mather, John Mitchell, Billy Palmer, Ian Rae, Ken Smith, Terry Telford, Billy Temple, Alan Tweed, Ged Wilson, Eddie Young; Margaret and June at the Coronation Club, Wallsend The Clyde Bill Brotherton, Jimmy Cloughley, Davie Cooper, Roy Fitzsimmons, Tommy Gorman, Rab Griffin, Kenny Little, Jimmy Reid, Brian Whittingham Interviewer Vince Hunt Songwriters Jez Lowe, Karine Polwart, John Tams Associate Musical Director Graeme Taylor Singers and musicians Andy Cutting, Barry Coope, Bob Fox, Jez Lowe, John McCusker, Karine Polwart, Graeme Taylor Radio announcer
Alan Dedicoat

Series interviews editor
Annie Grundy
Series music producer/engineer
Andy Seward
Series musical director
John Tams
Series executive producer
John Leonard

Music and archive research
Dorrene Ashcroft and Peter Hardy at the BBC Manchester Record Library
Melanie Peacock at BBC Sound Archive, London

The producers would like to gratefully acknowledge the assistance of the following people, without whom this programme would not have been possible: Staff past and present, Swan Hunter, Newcastle Jennifer Webster, Glasgow Museum of Transport Graeme Smith and Caroline Wilson, Glasgow Evening Times Bob Starratt The Clydebank Asbestosis Project Very special thanks: Sally Tams

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Website production Mel Ledgard, Debbie Kilbride, Vince Hunt, Annie Grundy (video), Alan Braidwood Photo credits
John Addison, Scottish Maritime Museum Andrew Clarke, Wallsend Peoples’ Archive Vince Hunt Bryan Ledgard Mick Fitzsimmons

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