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Lazy Jack
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Sound recording, story; Lazy Jack, an Irish
folk tale told, 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
with a large family who are going hungry. The man sets out to
find food. He borrows a gun from the minister and goes to the
edge of a pond to hunt. Mis-using the gun, the man accidentally
manages to kill not only a brace of duck, but also a hare and a
fish. In the process his head is sliced off by the ice on the
pond, but he manages to stick it back on and it freezes in place.
The man returns home, gives his wife the food to cook, and goes
to stand by the fire. As he warms his nose begins to run, and as
he wipes his nose, he throws his own head into the
fire.
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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:-
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adult
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recording quality
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condition:-
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good
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completeness:-
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complete
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duration:-
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0 hours, 7 minutes, 11 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:-
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storyteller: John Campbell
male / Irish
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origin:-
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Ireland
Britain
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Crick Crack Club season flyer and event listing
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Click to enlarge images
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associated:-
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singer; ballad singer: Len Graham
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use:-
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BBC Radio 4
Marc Jobst
radio broadcast pilot |
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administration & programming:-
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administrator; programmer: The Crick Crack Club
administrator; programmer; Artistic Director: Ben Haggarty
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storytelling:-
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Kentish Town, London, England: The Old Farm House Pub
25 Apr 1991
storytelling club: The Crick Crack Club
public performance
radio production
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gift from:-
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Marc Jobst
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© The London Centre for International Storytelling:
2007