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Silver Teapot, The

Sound recording, story; The Silver Teapot, a contemporary urban legend and folk tale, told by Ben Haggarty as part of a first half of a performance at the Storytelling Cafe Storytelling Club, in Wednesbury, West Midlands, 18th May 2004.

Introduction, followed by story told by Ben Haggarty. A women has a son who leaves to go to university. She goes to visit and meets her son's female 'house mate'. Her son insists that their relationship is purely platonic. When the mother leaves, the housemate notices that her silver teapot is missing. She asks the son to write home to see if his mother had taken it 'by mistake'. The mother replies that if the 'house mate' was just a 'house mate' and was sleeping in her own bed, then she would have found the teapot by now.

audience:- adult
    recording quality
condition:- good
completeness:- complete
duration:- 0 hours, 7 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: Ben Haggarty
male / British / born 30.11.1958

origin:- Britain


administration & programming:- administrator; programmer: Storytelling Cafe
administrator; programmer: Graham Langley


storytelling:- Wednesbury, Midlands, West, England: Wednesbury Library
18 May 2004
storytelling club: Storytelling Cafe


performance recording from:- archivist: Kate Norgate


©  The London Centre for International Storytelling: 2007
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