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an Ananse story
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Sound recording, story; an Afro-Caribbean a
trickster tale, aetiological or how and why story, and Ananse
story told by Jan Blake, at The Crick Crack Club at The Old Farm
House Pub, Kentish Town, London 17th February 1993
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A story, told by Jan Blake, about a
seven-headed giant who guards seven gates. Any man who succeeds
in getting through all seven gates, would win the hand in
marriage of one of the King's daughters. A young man who suffers
from excema takes on the challenge and succeeds in killing the
giant. The young man cuts the tongues from the giants mouths and
returns home. Ananse sees this, and takes the uvala's from the
heads of the gaint and convinces the King that he has killed the
gaint. Ananse takes one of the King's daughters as a wife, but
when the young man appears at his wedding with the tongues,
Ananse turns himself back into a spider and hides.
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Programme note reads - The ever popular Jan
Blake will have just got back from a field trip collecting
Jamaican song and story. Expect a lively evening of field
recordings and her own retellings of the new material she has
found.
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audience:-
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adult
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recording quality
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condition:-
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good
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completeness:-
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complete
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duration:-
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0 hours, 10 minutes, 33 seconds
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This is one of a series of recordings made by Marc Jobst to
create a pilot of a series of radio programmes entitled Cracking
Tales for broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Pilots were made, but the
programme was never broadcast.
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The Crick Crack Club was founded by Ben Haggarty in 1987 and was
the first regular performance storytelling club to be established
in the UK. From the outset, the club operated with a programme of
storytellers put in place by an artistic director, Ben Haggarty.
It had no 'floor spots' whereby anyone had the opportunity to
tell stories. The club was created in response to a recognised
need for there to be sufficient UK storytellers to perform
competent, formal evening shows for adult audiences in the
proposed 1989, 15 day long, Third International Storytelling
Festival at London's South Bank Centre. In the autumn of 1987 the
first season of 26 weekly Crick Crack Club events was launched in
a pub theatre (The Chair) in Ladbrook Grove, with the expressed
aim of trying out new artists and providing an opportunity for
established artists to develop their skills and repertoire for
adults. Jenny Pearson of the Kew Storytellers helped Ben Haggarty
with the organisation of this first season.The Crick Crack Club
promoted weekly events in various venues in London between 1987
and 1995, and then monthly events at the Spitz from 1995 to 2001.
During this time it also organised numerous monthly events and
mini-festivals in regional arts venues throughout England. In
1991/92 wth £10,000 from the Arts Council Literature department
it tried to establish a touring circuit promoting 120 events in a
year. Daniel Morden gave invaluable administrative support during
this period. In 1993, in partnership with David Ambrose of St.
Donats Arts Centre in Wales, the Crick Crack Club Club created
the Beyond the Border International Festival of Storytelling and
Epic Singing. Ben Haggarty co-directed Beyond the Border from
1993 to 2005. Since 2001 the Crick Crack Club has worked on a
peripatetic basis, programming in various venues and in
partnership with various organisations, and in 2003 began a
long-term partnership with Barbican Education in London, to
promote 9 events a year in the Barbican Pit Theatre
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storytelling:-
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storyteller: Jan Blake
female / British Jamaican / African Caribbean / British / born
18.03.1964
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origin:-
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Jamaica
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Crick Crack Club season flyer and event listing
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Click to enlarge images
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use:-
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BBC Radio 4
Marc Jobst
radio broadcast pilot |
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administration & programming:-
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administrator; programmer: The Crick Crack Club
administrator; programmer; Artistic Director: Ben Haggarty
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storytelling:-
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Kentish Town, London, England: The Old Farm House Pub
17 Feb 1993
storytelling club: The Crick Crack Club
public performance: Traveller's Tales 3. with Jan Blake
radio production
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gift from:-
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Marc Jobst
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© The London Centre for International Storytelling:
2007