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| a Mother's Daughter, Father's Daughter story | |
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| Sound recording, story; an Afro-Caribbean and Maroon wonder tale, from the Mother's Daughter, Father's Daughter story group, 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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| Introduction and story told by Jan Blake. A women has a daughter, and a step-daughter. She sends her step-daughter to the river each day to wash the dishes, and one day she loses a wooden spoon in the river. On hearing this her mother sends her step-daughter away to find the spoon. The step-daughter makes a journey and on the way helps three old women who give her three eggs. The eggs give the step-daughter a golden spoon, a golden chariot and a prince. The step-daughter returns home. Her mother sends her own daughter out to find similar riches, but she refuses help to the three old women and the three eggs she is given hatch out with insects, lizards and scorpions. The daughter runs into the bush and is never seen again. | |
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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:- | adult |
| recording quality | |
| condition:- | good |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 8 minutes, 7 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:- |
storyteller: Jan Blake female / British Jamaican / African Caribbean / British / born 18.03.1964 |
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| origin:- |
Jamaica
Maroon Afro-Caribbean |
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| Crick Crack Club season flyer and event listing | |
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| use:- |
BBC Radio 4 Marc Jobst radio broadcast pilot |
| administration & programming:- |
administrator; programmer: The Crick Crack Club administrator; programmer; Artistic Director: Ben Haggarty |
| storytelling:- |
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 |
| gift from:- |
Marc Jobst |
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