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  <&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One</&>
  <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies</&>
  <&>Victoria University of Wellington</&>

  <&>side one</&>
  <&>2:49</&>
  

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      we saw um <O>tut</O> raoul julia and michael hutchence <,>
      <drawls>and</drawls> the guy who played winston smith in
      nineteen eighty four <,> in a film <{><[>about</[> <&>3:00</&>

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      <[>john</[></{> hurt <latch>

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      john hurt

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      <O>tut</O> frankenstein unbound

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      oh yeah <latch>

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      it's called

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      watched it yesterday

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      it was um <O>sniffs</O> it was quite interestingly done

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      john hurt is a scientist from the future who's created a new
      atomic weapon which um fires a slightly <,> charged <.>atom</.>

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      charged with some new process that he's found

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      and when it contacts with anything it makes it disappear

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      and er this process causes time holes to open

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      and he falls through into <.>the</.> um frankenstein's era <,>

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      meets with doctor frankenstein and mary shelley <,,>

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      generally has a bad time

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      it's kind of back to the future meets frankenstein really <,>

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      and you even get to see the <{><[>guy from in x s</[> doing his
      stuff

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      <[><O>laughs</O></[></{>

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      <O>laughs</O> what's he play

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      a fool actually

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      aha <&>4:00</&>

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      a minor part <,>

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      top billing minimal screen time

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      <laughs>right</laughs> yeah

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      in x s must have been doing pretty well <.>th</.> then

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      <{><[>see</[> what they're doing now

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      <[><.>well</.></[></{>

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      i read in the <{><[>paper that they're um they <.>presold</.></[>

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      <[><O>sniffs</O> they're <,> playing in pretty</[></{> distant
      <{><[>places</[>

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      <[>yeah</[></{> they presold tickets and then didn't sell any
      more and are playing in little clubs

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      yeah

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      be fun <,> i suppose to go from like a stadium where you've just
      got <,> <{1><[1>heaps of noise</[1> and heaps of light

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      <{2><[2>yeah</[2> <laughs>i mean

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      but</laughs> but that can't be much fun all the time

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      <{3><[3>no well <O>laughs</O></[3>

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      <[1>oh they sold out wembley</[1></{1>

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      <[2>yeah</[2></{2>

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      <[3>oh no no if <.>you</.> i imagine not

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      it must get really</[3></{3> dull

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      <{><[><drawls>borING</drawls></[> <O>laughs</O> <latch>

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      <[><O>laughs</O></[></{>

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      gosh i mean not much of a party trick to be able to say we
      filled wembley

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      <drawls>no</drawls> <,,><&>3</&>

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      flannelled fools do it regularly <,,>

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      no

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      what is it the muddy dopes that they go to see <O>laughs</O>

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      no they don't play cricket there

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      don't they

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      no no <&>5:00</&>

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      it is the muddy dopes

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      yep <,,><&>3</&>

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      why don't they play cricket at wembley

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      because they've got lords <,>

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      and they've got the oval and cricket places <,,>

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      it's like saying why don't they play cricket at athletic park

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      <O>tut</O> why don't they play cricket at athletic park

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      cos they've got the basin <,>

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      at the moment <,,><&>3</&>

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      see what the motorway does to it

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      <O>tut</O> mm

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      they're supposed to approve that tomorrow they reckon <,,>

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      yeah

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      i wonder about the motorway <.>i</.> <O>exhales</O>

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      it's one of those things where it's clear <.>that</.> it's clear
      that traffic coming from north of wellington going to south of
      wellington and vice versa has to spend far too much time going
      through a city street system when it wants a motorway so it can
      dodge that <O>tut</O>

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      but um i <.>d</.> <&>6:00</&> still don't know that <.>dr</.>
      putting it slap bang in the middle of the last little pieces of
      the residential <,> inner city <.>i</.> is a very good idea

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      nah i think it's a JOKE

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      i think it's just something that they've set in motion

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      but if they were ever going to do it they should have done it
      when they started

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      they just run <.>it</.>

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      they <.>just</.> seems to me that they um <O>tut</O> got scared
      and didn't want to go any further and says we'll do it later

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      and now they're committed to doing it later which is NOW

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      and er <,> it's a mistake

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      <softly>mm</softly> <,,>

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      but i'm talking as a person who doesn't drive <.>so</.>

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      <O>laughs</O>

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      easy for me <,>

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      i think the wellington of the future will just be a big sort of
      <.>s</.> theme parky thing <{1><[1>anyway</[1>

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      all the shops will be moved out to the suburbs

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      <{2><[2>and you'll</[2> come here and drink and dance till dawn
      and you know catch cheap taxis home again to the suburbs

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      <[1><O>laughs</O></[1></{1>

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      <[2>we <.>won</.></[2></{2>

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      <O>voc</O> we want monorail that's what we want

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      a monorail <{><[>yeah</[> <&>7:00</&>

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      <[>yeah</[></{>

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      <{><[>just like japan</[>

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      <[><O>laughs</O> just</[></{> like springfield

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      mm mm <{><[><?>just go for it</?></[>

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      <[><laughs><unclear>word</unclear></[></{> lisa asked that guy
      um</laughs> excuse me sir can you tell me <.>why</.> why a small
      urbanly centralised town like springfield needs a monorail <O>laughs</O>

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      <with pseudo American accent>well lisa that's the most
      intelligent question i've ever been asked</with pseudo American accent>

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      <O>laughs</O>

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      <with pseudo American accent>and i can explain it to you but
      only you and i would understand the answer</with pseudo American accent>

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      <O>laughs</O> yeah <,,><&>3</&>

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      <O>tut</O> local bodies <,> poor old john burke eh

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      getting snapped forging a signature on his own nomination

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      but how did he get snapped <,>

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      <O>tut</O> how did it ever come out

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      i mean <{><[>it's just all</[> of a sudden hit the headlines
      last week but no one ever said WHY he told anyone

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      <[>it must <.>be</.></[></{>

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      yes that's true how did <.>it</.>

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      someone opened their mouth at the wrong place didn't they

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      must of

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      it's a pretty harmless offence

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      he was going to get nominated and <.>he</.> the voters elected
      him so <.>he</.> it's <.>hardly</.> you can say it was <{><[><unclear>word</unclear>
      not a democratic <unclear>word</unclear></[> <&>8:00</&>

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      <[>well it <.>was</.> it was a woman <.>that</.> that he</[></{>
      signed it for <O>tut</O>

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      she was <,> out of town but i mean <,>

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      what's wrong with couriers

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      what's wrong with faxes

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      they had them back then

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      true

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      you know it just shows a complete lack of thought <,,><&>3</&>

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      maybe it's a habit he's got into

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      <{><[>all those</[> different chequebooks he carries <O>laughs</O>
      <latch>

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      <[><unclear>word</unclear></[></{>

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      it was <.>actually</.>

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      like i've seen it and it was a pretty good forgery apart from
      the fact that <.>y</.> when you analyse it you can see <.>where</.>
      where it's been <{><[>done slowly</[> <.>and</.> <.>and</.> and
      <.>gone</.> gone over bits you know

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      and it was a bit wobbly because he was doing it slowly and stuff

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      and the pen's been picked up and put down again on another bit

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      but just to <.>a</.> to a nonexpert you wouldn't pick it
      <,,><&>5</&>

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      <[>done slowly</[></{>

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      in the paper they compared the two on the front page there but
      they um

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      the photocopies were of different qualities <latch>

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      right <latch> to the pictures um <&>9:00</&>

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      <.>i</.> i checked by looking at the type er and trying to
      compare that as well

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      and it looked <.>like</.> <,,> you know it really looked
      different even the type you know

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      one <{><[>was really</[> dark and bold

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      and one was really faint and scratchy so <,>

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      i'm sure they look much more alike when you actually get them
      written there on a piece of paper in front of you

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      <[>oh right</[></{>

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      <O>tut</O> <?>well</?> i think one of the weirdest stories
      lately is that um <,,> is that kids from liverpool thing <O>tut</O>

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      because you heard absolutely nothing about it until say a
      fortnight ago and since then there's been <,> dozens of
      newspaper articles about it

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      there's <.>been</.> there's even a t v programme on right now
      <{1><[1>which they must have been making <.>w</.> well they must</[1>
      have been making that a long time ago

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      <{2><[2>so why <.>not</.></[2>

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      <[1><unclear>word</unclear>

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      i <?>well it <.>was</.></?></[1></{1>

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      <[2>it was news in <.>australia</.></[2></{2>

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      it was news in australia um for a while because people had been
      <.>in</.> stressed about it over there

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      right

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      <{><[>only just came</[> over here <latch>

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      <[>but i don't <.>know</.></[></{>

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      yeah i think <.>it's</.> only fairly new here <&>10:00</&>

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      still seems strange and they're all coming out of the woodwork
      and saying yes it was pretty horrible <,>

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      and it sounds pretty horrible <,,><&>3</&>

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      <.>but</.> but they were <.>finally</.> had the angle of um one
      of the social workers of the time who was saying that <{1><[1>sure</[1>
      a lot of these kids didn't seem to adjust very well

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      but they were coming from an urban area in england and living in
      a rural area in <.>wellington</.>

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      er <.>in</.> in new zealand

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      and being expected to <,> you know work on a dairy farm

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      get up at five in the morning and go and help milk the cows and
      stuff <{2><[2>like that</[2> <O>tut</O>

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      and they <.>just</.> were not even mildly equipped for it

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      so <.>they</.> they <.>just</.> they were just looking at it and
      going oh well okay they haven't adjusted very well but that's
      obvious because it's such <.>a</.> such a change of life style

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      so they weren't that worried about it <.>when</.> when kids were
      freaking out and saying we hate it here we hate it here

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      sitting in <?>trees</?> for two days until someone comes and
      takes them away from it <&>11:00</&>

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      <[1><unclear>word</unclear></[1></{1>

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      <[2><O>laughs</O></[2></{2>

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      mm <,,><&>3</&> but it's the dangers of <.>a</.> of <.>a</.> <.>t</.>
      a job like that which is um requires <.>s</.>

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      only certain people can do a sort of job like that working with
      displaced <.>or</.> or unhappy children

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      and <,> not necessarily the people who CAN do it do it

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      i mean it's not an easy job surely running a farm <,> full of
      rowdy young boys who've just been shipped over from liverpool
      after a war

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      i mean it's not going to be one of the <.>things</.>

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      oh pick me to do that i'll do that you know i'm sure i'll get a
      huge salary

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      no but they separated them all they'd only send one <.>to</.> to
      any particular farm <,,>

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      and um and it APPEARS that most of <.>the</.> most of the foster
      families that were taking them in weren't um <,> doing it for
      any <,> beneficial purpose to their kids

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      they were doing it for cheap labour for their farm right <{1><[1>now</[1>

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      um which wasn't <O>tut</O> i think the plan when they were sent
      out here

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      but then when you find out <.>that</.> that some of the kids
      weren't even orphans <.>and</.> <{2><[2>and they <.>were</.></[2>

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      <[1>right</[1></{1> <&>12:00</&>

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      <[2><laughs>yeah</laughs> they were</[2></{2> being abused <.>and</.>
      <latch>

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      yeah no <{><[>one cared</[> <,,> yeah

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      <[>not fed</[></{>

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      er i told you a friend of mine todd's just taken over down at
      calder's next <.>to</.> <.>i</.> in john street

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      the house next door to where we used to live

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      oh right right

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      it's a um half way house for young people

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      oh yeah

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      and um he's managing it

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      he <{1><[1><.>gets</.></[1> he gets accommodation <.>and</.> <.>and</.>
      <O>voc</O> food and bills paid

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      and he just has to hang round there <.>and</.> and <.>v</.>
      organise dinner rosters and make sure the rubbish gets put out
      and send <O>tut</O> people off to job interviews and

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      <softly>oh i don't know</softly>

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      yeah he's probably collecting all their benefits and putting it
      into his own private <{2><[2>bank account and</[2> giving them
      allowances or something by now

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      but yeah he said it's <laughs>REALLY hard work</laughs> <O>laughs</O>
      <laughs>he said he's living there</laughs>

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      well he's been there three weeks now and he hasn't had much fun
      at all <O>laughs</O> <,,> <&>13:00</&>

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      <[1>right <.>t</.></[1></{1>

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      <[2><O>laughs</O></[2></{2>

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      yeah i don't think it's a <{><[><unclear>word</unclear></[>

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      <[>he says he prays for the</[></{> social workers to come round

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      <with silly voice>come round social workers come round PLEASE</with silly voice>

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      come and sort these BASTARDS out

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      <O>laughs</O>

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      yeah <,,><&>9</&>

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      well we were on a roll there

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      yeah we were going for a while

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      yeah it's <{><[>pretty impressive</[>

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      <[>and <?>then that</?></[></{> pregnant pause

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      yeah

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      but you see what what happened is we both started talking at the
      same time and then we had to breathe

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      yeah yeah <O>voc</O> maybe we should have little cards

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      my turn

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      your turn

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      or we could just like um you know

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      there is a tried and true method well er for radios of course
      they <.>just</.> <&>gestures</&> <,>

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      and that works because no one can hear it <O>tut</O>

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      but um you know over or something like that or you know

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      roger

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      roger <&>14:00</&>

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      <O>laughs</O> with you i'm with you

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      i told you <.>how</.> what um what happened to us when i
      recorded that thing on national radio did <.>i</.>

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      you know during <.>the</.> the link bit to those songs <latch>

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      yeah yeah

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      well <O>coughs</O> i didn't have a script as such and i was <.>just</.>

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      i just had NOTES in front of me

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      and i <{1><[1>was</[1> you know making up <.>the</.> the way the
      sentences were put together <.>as</.> as i went

  <WSC#DPC225:1055:AD>
      just from the notes

  <WSC#DPC225:1060:AD>
      and before i started he said to <.>us</.>

  <WSC#DPC225:1065:AD>
      he says <drawls>oh</drawls> he says i don't really like that

  <WSC#DPC225:1070:AD>
      um i've had lots of times where people have come in with notes
      <.>and</.> and pissed around for an hour

  <WSC#DPC225:1075:AD>
      and then we've finally had to script it out before we can
      actually get it done

  <WSC#DPC225:1080:AD>
      but fair enough go <.>and</.> go and try it

  <WSC#DPC225:1085:AD>
      <O>tut</O> so i went in there and i was doing it and he <.>was</.>

  <WSC#DPC225:1090:AD>
      <.>y</.> you know it was going okay

  <WSC#DPC225:1095:AD>
      but every now and then i'd <,> say a sentence or a phrase or
      something and get a bit lost <{2><[2>half way through it or
      something</[2>

  <WSC#DPC225:1100:AD>
      <.>and</.> and he'd say <O>tut</O> oh that's fine that's fine
      <.>we'll</.>

  <WSC#DPC225:1105:AD>
      the first part of it sounded okay <.>that's</.> that was you
      know quite a good thing to say so we'll go with THAT

  <WSC#DPC225:1110:AD>
      but um the last half of that <.>sentence</.>

  <WSC#DPC225:1115:AD>
      yeah you lost it a bit so i'll just cue you in and you come in
      with the second half of that sentence

  <WSC#DPC225:1120:AD>
      <{3><[3>and i didn't have any earphones on <?>then</?></[3>

  <WSC#DPC225:1125:AD>
      and he was just sitting in <.>his</.> in his booth

  <WSC#DPC225:1130:AD>
      and he'd POINT at me and i'd have to come in with <,> the other
      half of <{4><[4>the sentence</[4> and try and make it sound

  <WSC#DPC225:1135:BY>
      <[1>yeah</[1></{1>

  <WSC#DPC225:1140:BY>
      <[2><O>laughs</O></[2></{2> <&>15:00</&>

  <WSC#DPC225:1145:BY>
      <[3><O>laughs</O></[3></{3>

  <WSC#DPC225:1150:BY>
      <[4><O>laughs</O></[4></{4>

  <WSC#DPC225:1155:BY>
      the same <&>15:29</&>
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