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Pottle of Brains, A
a Jack Tale story
Sound recording, story; A Pottle of Brains, a folk tale, riddling tale and Jack tale, from Europe told by Hugh Lupton, at The Crick Crack Club at The White Lion Pub, Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan, Wales, 1st November 1991.
Introduction to the event and to Hugh Lupton by Master of Ceremonies David Ambrose, followed by an introduction to the performance, music played, and story told by Hugh Lupton. A story of riddles between a henwife and Jack who is seeking 'a pottle of brains' in return for the heart of the thing he loves the best. Jack fails to answer the riddles, but on marrying, his wife is able to answer the riddles for him. The story concludes that 'the only cure for a fool is to marry a women with her wits about her.'
audience:-	adult
recording quality
condition:-	good
completeness:-	complete
duration:-	0 hours, 15 minutes, 4 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.
This event was the first of a series of storytelling events promoted by The Crick Crack Club in collaboration with St Donats Arts Centre.
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
storytelling:-	storyteller; musician: Hugh Lupton male / British / English / Welsh
storytelling:-	Master of Ceremonies: David Ambrose male / British / occupation Director of St Donats Arts Centre
origin:-	Europe
use:-	BBC Radio 4 Marc Jobst radio broadcast pilot
administration & programming:-	administrator: St Donats Arts Centre administrator: David Ambrose administrator; programmer: The Crick Crack Club administrator; programmer; Artistic Director: Ben Haggarty
storytelling:-	Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan, Wales: The White Lion Pub 01 Nov 1991 storytelling club: The Crick Crack Club public performance radio production
gift from:-	Marc Jobst

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