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| Sound recording, story; a folk tale and trickster tale from Ireland, told by John Campbell, at The Crick Crack Club The Old Farm House Pub, Kentish Town, London 24th April 1991. | |
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| A story told by John Campbell about a man and wife who live high up on a hill, and far from the well, their only source of water. The couple argue about who is to go and fetch the water. One day their argument reaches such a height that the priest is sent for. He suggests that they both lilt, or diddle, competitively, and the one who stops and can't go on, will be the one to fetch the water. The couple both begin to lilt. Meanwhile a farmer on his way to market loses his cattle on the hill, and comes to the farm frantically asking if either man or wife has seen them. Neither will stop their lilting to answer him, until he begins to strangle the women, who stops to cry out to her husband to help her. The husband sends his wife to well. | |
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| The programme note reads - 'John Campbell and Len Graham are two of Ireland's very finest performers of traditional material. One is a teller of weepingly funny crack, the other is a singer of songs.' | |
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| audience:- | adult |
| recording quality | |
| condition:- | good |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 7 minutes, 35 seconds |
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| This was a joint performance by Len Graham and John Campbell | |
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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: John Campbell male / Irish |
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| origin:- | Ireland |
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| Crick Crack Club season flyer and event listing | |
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| Click to enlarge images | |
| associated:- |
singer; ballad singer: Len Graham
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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
25 Apr 1991 storytelling club: The Crick Crack Club public performance radio production |
| gift from:- |
Marc Jobst |
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