Survey of English Dialects recording in Stogumber, Somerset

[Side 1] Fred talks about making cider, reflects on impact of price of apples on farmer's willingness to make cider, discusses own orchard and smallholding, recalls pleasure of eating home-cured hams and drinking home-made cider, describes frame for pressing cider and explains use of 'cider cheese' [= mass of crushed apples prepared for pressing] and 'pommy' [= mass of crushed apples after juice has been pressed out], recalls camaraderie of making cider at night with gang of farm workers, comments on decline in popularity of cider. [Side 2] Fred talks about father's home-cured hams and mother's home-baked bread, reflects on changing attitudes to food, compares clothing and fashion now and in past, reflects on increased cost of living, tells anecdote about childhood prank of removing rings from farmer's roller, recalls acceptance of corporal punishment in past.