I'm set up for the next couple of hours, i've eaten home made potato and leek soup for supper and am now listening to extracts of the Original Radio Ballads from 1958 to 1964
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/radioballads/original/ontheedge.shtml
I've listened to the audio of the "travelling people" and am half way through "On the Edge - Teenagers" and am identifying with it bigtime.
I think i'll listen to The "Big Hewer - coal mining" next and while i'm listening i'd better do some research on Gdansk 'cos all I know about it is Lech Walesa and the labor unrest in the Gdansk shipyards in 1980 and the creation of the Solidarity trade union, which soon led the push toward democracy 
Here's a list of the tapes one can listen to.
The Ballad of John Axon - Railwaymen
Song of a Road Motorway- building
Singing the Fishing - Herring fishing
The Big Hewer- Coal mining
The Body Blow- Poliomyelitis
The Fight Game - Professional boxing
Travelling People - gypsies
On the Edge - Teenagers"
