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Sleeping King, The
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a King Arthur story
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Sound recording, story; The Sleeping King,
from the legends of King Arthur, told by Ben Haggarty, at the
High Summer Storytelling Clubnight, in the Garden of No. 4 Shaa
Road, Acton, London, 21st July 1984
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Story told by Ben Haggarty. A horse thief has
difficulties selling his stolen horses. The only person who will
buy them is an old beggar man. He asks the beggar man what he
wants the horses for. The begar man takes the thief to a cave
where King Arthur and his knights are sleeping. The beggar man
reveals himself as Merlin, and challenges the horse thief to
either blow King Arthur's Horn or draw King Arthur's Sword. The
thief blows the horn, wakes Arthur and his knights and is then
blown from the cave out into the world.
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audience:-
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adult; contributing storytellers
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recording quality
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condition:-
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fair
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completeness:-
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complete
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duration:-
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0 hours, 9 minutes, 20 seconds
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The West London Storytelling Unit Clubnights or The Storytelling
Unit Clubnights were begun by Ben Haggarty, TUUP and Daisy Keable
in 1982 shortly after beginning to work together as the West
London Storytelling Unit (W.L.S.T.U). They took place on roughly
a fortnightly basis during the atumn and winter months, in
community centres in Acton, Shepherds Bush and Hammersmith. The
clubnights were an opportunity for anyone to come and tell a
story, or perform music on the condition that it had a toe-hold
in tradition. The performance of original poetry and the reading
of original writing was actively discouraged as there were plenty
of other fora for 'new writing' elsewhere in London. In 2007 Ben
Haggarty explained that the clubnight format was in part inspired
by the College of Storytellers, but with the aim of doing
something less bourgeois, for a younger audience and which was
not dominated by Idries Shah's mission to promote his vision of
Sufi storytelling. The clubnights also took inspiration from the
anarchy of the London Musicians Collective clubnight events in
Camden. The clubnights led Ben Haggarty to inaugurate the First
UK International Storytelling Festival at Battersea Arts Centre
in London in January 1985. After the 1985 festival a few further
clubnights were run, before ending in 1986. The clubnights were
superseded by the formation of the Company of Storytellers who
pioneered the touring of adult evening shows throughout the UK,
and by the formation of the Crick Crack Club in 1987, which
focused on the programming and development of professional
storytellers, their performance skills and their repertoire for
adult audiences.
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storytelling:-
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storyteller: Ben Haggarty
male / British / born 30.11.1958
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origin:-
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Britain
Brittany
Ireland
Celtic
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Flyer for the High Summer Storytelling Clubnight
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Flyer for the High Summer Storytelling Clubnight
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Click to enlarge images
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administration:-
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storyteller; promoter: Ben Haggarty
storyteller: Daisy Keable; Georgiana Jerstad; Georgiana Keable
storyteller; musician: TUUP; Godfrey Duncan
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storytelling:-
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Shaa Road, 4, Acton, London, England
21 Jul 1984
storytelling club: Storytelling Unit Clubnight
storytelling club: High Summer Storytelling Clubnight
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gift from:-
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storyteller: Ben Haggarty
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© The London Centre for International Storytelling:
2007