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Not Even God
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| Sound recording, story and song; Not Even God, an African trickster tale and folk tale told by Sally Pomme Clayton, with song sung by Helen Chadwick and Inanna as part of the programme The Seeds of Love, at The Crick Crack Club at The Old Farm House Pub, Kentish Town, London 14th February 1991 | |
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| Song followed by story, told by Sally Pomme Clayton. A story of a man who marries a beautiful wife, but becomes insecure, jealous and suspicious of her. He locks her up behind seven doors. She manages to obtain a key and promptly does take a lover. Her husband's suspicion grows when one-day he finds one of the doors left unlocked. He tells his wife that he will take her to the chain of truth (where only the truth can be told) where she must hold onto the chain and declare that only he, her husband, has seen her nakedness. She tells her lover to dress as a beggar and wait on the route to the chain with a donkey. She then exposes herself to the beggar when mounting the donkey on the journey to the chain, and once they arrive, she admits that only her husband and the beggar have seen her nakedness. Thereby telling the truth and tricking her husband. | |
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| Programme note reads - The Seeds of Love - an evening devised by storyteller Pomme Clayton and singer Helen Chadwick, to celebrate the feast of St Valentine. | |
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| audience:- | adult |
| recording quality | |
| condition:- | good |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 7 minutes, 46 seconds |
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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; singing:- |
storyteller: Sally Pomme Clayton female / British |
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| storytelling; singing:- | singing group: Inanna |
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| storytelling; singing:- |
singer: Helen Chadwick female / British |
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| storytelling; singing:- |
singer: Joanna Foster female |
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| storytelling; singing:- |
singer: Venice Manley female |
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| origin:- | Africa |
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| Crick Crack Club season flyer | |
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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; singing:- |
Kentish Town, London, England: The Old Farm House Pub
14 Feb 1991 storytelling club: The Crick Crack Club public performance: The Seeds of Love radio production |
| gift from:- |
Marc Jobst |
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