The speakers: The men and women of Cullercoats
Script by Patricia Docksey
Produced by Cecil McGivern
This is a story of life in 1939 in a famous fishing village at the mouth of the River Tyne and of the ' Cullercoats Fishwives' who, for more than two centuries, have wandered through Northumberland and Durham selling their fish Now, war has nearly emptied their creels and their journeyings are more difficult, but so long as there is fish to be sold, the Cullercoats women will sell it.