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

Introduction followed by a narrative joke told by Duncan Williamson, about an Irish man who seeks work in Scotland. He gets a job finding the mole which is destroying a rich man's lawn. He catches the mole and is then asked to give it the worst death he can think of. The Irish man buries the mole alive.

audience:- adult
    recording quality
condition:- good
completeness:- complete
duration:- 0 hours, 5 minutes, 50 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

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


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