'Herrings'
A Picture of the East Anglian Herring
Industry
Programme arranged by JOAN WOOLLCOMBE
This afternoon Joan Woollcombe , who has lived near Yarmouth all her life and knows fishermen and their wives and children intimately, is to describe the fleet coming in, and what happens, and what it is like to go out in a drifter.
But this is more than a talk. A recording van was taken to Scarborough and records were made of ships unloading, of a fish auction, and of a little talk with a ' cast-off '—the boy whose job it is to detach the net from the main rope when the boat is on the fishing grounds.
Schools today are to hear these records, and they will hear others recorded by a Yarmouth skipper and by his wife. And so the first feature programme of the term-and almost the first ever given to Schools-will be presented. Now they will be hearing Joan Woollcombe 's voice, and now one from a fishing port. They will hear the sounds of shouting in the market and almost smell the fish. And they will learn some of the reasons why the fisherman gets about a farthing for a herring, though they cost about threehalfpence each to buy for breakfast.