A Sailor's Life
Sunday 23 October 2005 13:00-14:00 (Radio 3)
To commemorate the 200th anniversary of Trafalgar and as part of Nelson weekend, the music surrounding Admiral Lord Nelson's life is celebrated.
Playlist
2/2. A Sailor's Life
From the deck of the HMS Victory, Catherine Bott talks to Alan Knight, tour guide of the great ship, about life in Nelson's Navy, and the songs and shanties Nelson's men would have sung.
The Banks of the Nile
A.L.Lloyd, singer
Topic 12TS232 vinyl
On Board a '98
Roy Harris and chorus
Topic 12TS232 vinyl
The Press Gang
Roy Harris
Topic 12RS232 vinyl
Blood Red Roses &
Haul on the Bowline
A.L.Lloyd
HPO 6007
The Seventeen Bright Stars
A.L. Lloyd and chorus
Topic 12TS232 vinyl
The Captain's Apprentice
A.L.Lloyd
Archive recording
Reels
Gerry Wimsey, tin-whistle
Topic TSCD 662
Hornpipes
John Rae, dulcimer
Topic TSCD 652
Nelson's Victory at Copenhagen
Martyn Wyndham-Read and Chorus
Topic 12TS232 vinyl
A sailor and his true love
Cyril Poacher
Topic TSCD 652
The female cabin boy
Bob Hart
Topic TSCD 662
The sailor laddie
Frankie Armstrong
Topic 12TS232
The dockyard gate
Sam Larner
Topic TSCD 511
The sailor's Alphabet
Sam Larner
Topic TSCD 662
The Valiant Sailor
Roy Harris and Chorus
Topic 12TS232 vinyl
Nelson's Death
Roy Harris and Chorus
Topic 12TS232 vinyl
Selected bibliography, recommended by Catherine Bott:
The Life of Nelson
Robert Southey 1813
Nelson: The Man and the Legend
Terry Coleman 2001
Nelson, Love and Fame
Edgar Vincent 2003
Nelson’s Women
Tom Pocock 1999
Beloved Emma
Flora Fraser 1986
Men of Honour: Trafalgar and the Making of an English Hero
Adam Nicolson 2005
Admiral Lord Nelson: Context and Legacy
Edited by David Cannadine 2005
Nelson: The New Letters
Edited by Colin White 2005
The British Seaman
Christopher Lloyd 1968
The Wooden World: An Anatomy of the Georgian Navy
N.A.M. Rodger 1986
Nelson’s Navy
Brian Lavery 1989
The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
Edited by Peter Kemp 1988
NB Fiction: Forester’s Hornblower books, Patrick O’ Brian,
and especially Barry Unsworth’s novel Losing Nelson, 1999
The Valiant Sailor
Roy Palmer 1973
