A Radio Ballad by Ewan MacColl and Charles Parker
on the three generations of the herring fisherman

This programme, which originated in the BBC's Midland studios, was first broadcast in the Home Service in August. Last month it was awarded the Italian Press Association prize for Radio Documentary in the 1960 Italia Prize competition at 9.0
Told by Sam Larner of Winterton, Ronnie Balls of Yarmouth, George Draper of Lowestoft, Frank West of Gardenstown, with the crew of the 'Honeydew' and men and women from the fishing communities of East Anglia and the Moray Firth

Set into song by Ewan MacColl
With A.L. Lloyd, Elizabeth and Jane Stewart, Ian Campbell, John Clarence and a section of the Clarion Singers under Katharine Thomson
Jim Bray (bass), Fitzroy Coleman (guitar), Alf Edwards (concertina and ocarina), Kay Graham diddle), Peggy Seeger (banjo, mandolin, and auto harp), Bruce Turner (alto-sax and clarinet)
The hymn sung by Lewis Cardno of Cairnbulg
The poem 'The Elusive Herring' written and read by James Burnett of Gardenstown

Orchestration and music direction, Peggy Seeger
Technical direction, John Clarke
Production by Charles Parker