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R1103.wav
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Not Even God
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Sound recording, story; Not Even God an
African folk tale and trickster tale, told by Jan Blake, at The
Crick Crack Club at The Old Farm House Pub, Kentsh Town, London
17th February 1993
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Story told by Jan Blake. A story of a man who
marries a beautiful wife, but without reason becomes insecure,
jealous and suspicious of her. He locks her up behind seven
doors. She manages to obtain a key and promptly does take a
lover. Her husband's suspicion grows when one-day he finds one of
the doors left unlocked. He tells his wife that he will take her
to the oracle stone (where only the truth can be told) where she
must lay her head on the stone and declare that only he, her
husband, has seen her nakedness. She tells her lover to dress as
a donkey man and wait on the route to the stone. She then exposes
herself to him when mounting a donkey to travel to the stone, and
then admits to the stone, that only her husband and the donkey
man have seen her nakedness. Thereby telling the truth and
tricking her husband.
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The story is followed by a discussion about
the story told in R1102 and how it was recorded by Grimms, and is
told by traveller cultures in Britain, and by thanks from Master
of Ceremonies Ben Haggarty.
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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, 13 minutes, 52 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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storytelling:-
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Master of Ceremonies; Crick Crack Club Artistic Director: Ben
Haggarty
male / British / born 30.11.1958 / occupation performance
storyteller; promoter
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origin:-
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Africa
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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