digital:works Podcast

Sherbet Dab - London Cabbies - Ep 1

digital:works Season 6 Episode 1

A podcast based on oral history interviews with London cabbies.

Episode One:

This episode explores the reasons cabbies became cabbies, the intense training they all need to undertake called “the knowledge” and the nerve-wracking oral examination system called “appearances”

The Sherbet Dab project was developed and run by digital:works. The interviews were undertaken by children and staff at St George the Martyr and Westminster Cathedral Primary Schools. The project was supported by The London Transport Museum, Unite the Union, Alf Townsend and all of the interviewees. Music was by Vincent Burke

The project was funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund and Unite the Union

To listen to the full interviews or watch the documentary film visit: www.sherbetdab.org.uk