by Michael Oliver
This book my property contains
And here's my wages for my pains:
'Tis neither silver, brass nor gold -
Notes is the property I hold.

The story of some 18th- and early 19th-century cotton spinners, weavers and preachers who were 'musicianers' living in the Valley of Dean, eight miles south of Burnley in Lancashire. Based on the recollections of one of the last of them, Moses Heap, who died in 1913, and whose memoirs in manuscript, together with some of the 'larks' music notebooks, are now in Rawtenstall Public Library.
with Leslie Sands as Moses Heap
Other parts played by DAVID MAHLOWE and ALAN ROTHWELL
The music of the larks transcribed by MICHAEL OLIVER, edited by MICHAEL COE and conducted by STEPHEN WILKINSON
Directed by PATRICIA BRENT
Preview: p 15