LCIS WOSAS : F1063

WOSAS : F1063	WOSAS/CD347/track3 R1126.wav
Seventh Father of the House, The

Sound recording, story; The Seventh Father of the House, a Norwegian folk tale, told by Abbi Patrix, at The Crick Crack Club at The Old Farm House Pub, Kentsh Town, London, 28th February 1991.

Words from Master of Ceremonies Ben Haggarty, followed by a story told by Abbi Patrix accompanying himself on an African thumb piano. A traveller comes to a house and asks the father of the house if he may stay the night. The old man replies that he is not the father of the house and directs him to an older man. This occurs six times until the traveller finds himself talking to an incredibly old man curled up in a horn hung on the wall. This is the seventh, and the true father of the house and he grants the traveller a bed for the night.

Programme note reads - The Magnificent French storyteller, Abbi Patrix, presents an informal evening of Norwegian Folk and Wonder Tales. Unmissable.

audience:-	adult
recording quality
condition:-	good
completeness:-	complete
duration:-	0 hours, 6 minutes, 53 seconds

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.

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 Ł10,000 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

storytelling:-	storyteller: Abbi Patrix male / French / Norwegian

storytelling:-	Master of Ceremonies; Crick Crack Club Artistic Director: Ben Haggarty male / British / born 30.11.1958 / occupation performance storyteller; promoter

origin:-	Norway Scandinavia



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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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