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Sound recording, story; reminiscence and a Scottish folk tale, told by Duncan Williamson at a storytelling club run by Jenny Pearson at Watermans Arts Centre, London, 18th October 1986.

Introduction to Ben Haggarty to Duncan Williamson. Introduction, including reminiscence by Duncan Williamson, about his childhood and how his love of stories developed, followed by story. A story about a young man who takes a job on a farm, but leaves when the farmer's elderly mother dies and he suspects that the farmer wishes him to cook and to eat her.

audience:- adult
    recording quality
condition:- good
completeness:- complete
duration:- 0 hours, 16 minutes, 34 seconds

Storytelling clubs operate in a variety of formats. Some clubs provide a place where anyone can come and tell stories to a small intimate and specialist audience ('floor-spots'); while other clubs run a programme of performances by professional or semi-professional storytellers, and many clubs do a combination of both. In 2007 the UK had in the region of 55 storytelling clubs: the larger, more prominent clubs provide a low key, small-scale circuit for storytelling, for a specialist-interest audience.

storytelling:- storyteller; singer; ballad singer: Duncan Williamson
male / Scottish / traveller

storytelling:- Master of Ceremonies: Ben Haggarty
male / British / born 30.11.1958 / occupation performance storyteller; promoter

origin:- Scotland


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administration & programming:- administrator; programmer: Jenny Pearson
administrator; programmer: The Crick Crack Club
administrator; programmer: Ben Haggarty


storytelling:- London, England: Watermans Arts Centre
19 Oct 1986
storytelling club


gift from:- storyteller: Ben Haggarty


©  The London Centre for International Storytelling: 2007
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