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Sound recording, story; a ghost story told as a true life tale from the Scottish traveller tradition, told by Shiela Stewart, at The Crick Crack Club The Old Farm House Pub, Kentish Town, London 26th November 1991.
Introduction by Ben Haggarty with reference to the BBC recording, to Sheila Stewart and Ian McGregor, who is standing in for Rob Roy McGregor who would have been performing with Sheila, his grandmother. Introduction, followed by a story told by Sheila Stewart, about an ghostly encounter reported to have happened to Sheila Stewart's father when he was a child. The Stewart family set up camp near an abandoned church. The children explore the church, taking turns to sing and pretend to preach from the pulpit. That night, they are awoken by the sounds of their play coming from the church.
The programme note reads - 'Sheila and her 15 year old grandson come from a famous Scots traveller family; The Stewarts of Blairgowrie. Their repertoire of folk tale, wonder tale and ballad dates back at least 500 years. A rich evening from a living tradition.
audience:-	adult
recording quality
condition:-	good
completeness:-	complete
duration:-	0 hours, 7 minutes, 7 seconds
This event was advertised as a joint performance by Sheila Stewart and Rob Roy McGregor, but Ian McGregor performed in the place of Rob Roy.
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 £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; ballad singer; singer: Sheila Stewart female / Scottish / traveller
storytelling:-	storyteller; ballad singer; singer; musician: Ian McGregor male / Scottish / traveller
storytelling:-	Master of Ceremonies; Crick Crack Club Artistic Director: Ben Haggarty male / British / born 30.11.1958 / occupation Performance Storyteller; promoter
origin:-	Scotland traveller
	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 26 Nov 1991 storytelling club: The Crick Crack Club public performance radio production
gift from:-	Marc Jobst

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