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Twelve Wild Ducks, The
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White Snow, Red Rose
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Twelve Black Swans, The
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| Sound recording, story; The Twelve Wild Ducks, a Norwegian wonder tale told by Abbi Patrix, at The Crick Crack Club at The Old Farm House Pub, Kentsh Town, London, 28th February 1991. | |
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| Story told by Abbi Patrix. A King and Queen have twelve sons. The Queen journeys into the forest, pricks her finger on a rose bush and dreams of a daughter. In her dream, the Queen wishes that she could swap all her sons for a single daughter, and her wish is heard by a unseen witch. The Queen gives birth to a daughter, but when the child is one year old, her twelve brothers dissapear. The daughter grows up and learns of the story. She makes a journey, finds her brothers, who have been turned into twelve wild ducks. She learns how to release them from their spell and sets about making each brother a full set of clothes out of marsh cotton, in absolute silence, without tears or laughter. As she works, she meets a Prince (the step-son of the witch), who, despite her silence, courts her and marries her. The daughter bears him three children, which are taken by the witch, who tells her step-son that his wife has eaten them. Unable to speak until the marsh cotton clothes for her brothers are complete, the daughter cannot protest her innocence. Her husband protects his wife from being burnt, but when the third child dissappears he cannot protest her innocence any longer. The witch takes the daughter to be burnt, so her husband brings her sewing work down into the courtyard. At this point her brothers fly into the yard; take the marsh cotton clothes in their beaks, and reappear as twelve men. The daughter breaks her silence and tells her story. She is released, her children are found alive, and the witch is killed. The brothers, the daughter and her husband return to the King and Queen and celebrate. | |
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| The same story exists in Scottich, German and other cultures. A recording of a composit version told by Ben Haggarty in Norwich in 2006 can be found in R1013, entitled The Twelve Black Swans | |
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| Programme note reads - The Magnificent French storyteller, Abbi Patrix, presents an informal evening of Norwegian Folk and Wonder Tales. Unmissable. | |
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| audience:- | adult |
| recording quality | |
| condition:- | good |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 20 minutes, 57 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: Abbi Patrix male / French / Norwegian |
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| origin:- | Norway Scandinavia |
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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
28 Feb 1991 storytelling club: The Crick Crack Club public performance radio production |
| gift from:- |
Marc Jobst |
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