A documentary film based on Singing the Fishing by Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger and Charles Parker which won the Italian Press Association Award for Radio Documentary, Italia 1960.

This new film takes the music and voices of a much-praised radio ballad and sets them against action film - new and old - to tell the story of the rise and decline of the herring industry, which formed the fishing communities on the east coast of Scotland and England.

From the hard and brutal days of sail through technical revolution, depression and war, to the conservation debate of the 70s.

With Ewan MacColl, A.L. Lloyd, Ian Campbell and Peggy Seeger
Adapted and produced by Philip Donnellan
(from Birmingham)