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Sweetest Flesh on Earth,
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| Sound recording, song and story; a song sung by Sally Pomme Clayton, and The Sweetest Flesh on Earth, an apocryphal tale and aetiological or how and why story from Arabia, told by Hugh Lupton, as part of a performance by The Company of Storytellers, at Cheltenham Literature Festival in The Town Hall, Cheltenham, 12th October 1987. | |
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| Song sung by Sally Pomme Clayton with music played by The Company of Storytellers, followed by a story told by Hugh Lupton. A story about Satan trying to get back into paradise. He is helped by a snake in return for the promise of sweetest flesh on earth. The story tells of why the swallow has a forked tale, why snakes eat frogs and why mosquitoes only wine and why they bite humans. | |
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| audience:- | adult |
| recording quality | |
| condition:- | good |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 8 minutes, 18 seconds |
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| The Company of Storytellers at that time comprised Ben Haggarty, Hugh Lupton and Sally Pomme Clayton. | |
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| The Company of Storytellers (C.O.S.T) was formed in March/April 1985 with the expressed aim of performing storytelling for adult audiences. C.O.S.T was actually formed during a tour in East Anglia by Sally Pomme Clayton, Hugh Lupton and Ben Haggarty. The official launch of COST was in 1986 at Common Stock Theatre, London. At this point the members of C.O.S.T were Sally Pomme Clayton, TUUP, Ben Haggarty, Daisy Keable, Hugh Lupton. However TUUP and Daisy Keable did not remain in the group and it is as a trio of storytellers, Ben Haggarty, Hugh Lupton and Sally Pomme Clayton, that C.O.S.T is publicly known. C.O.S.T was disbanded in 1999, but periodically reforms to perform the Three Snake Leaves. The two seminal pieces developed and performed by C.O.S.T were The Three Snake Leaves and I Become Part of It. | |
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| storytelling; singing:- | storytelling group: The Company of Storytellers |
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| storytelling; singing:- |
storyteller; musician: Hugh Lupton male / British / English / Welsh |
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| storytelling; singing:- |
storyteller; musician; singer: Sally Pomme Clayton female / British |
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| storytelling; singing:- |
storyteller; musician: Ben Haggarty male / British / born 30.11.1958 |
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| origin:- |
Middle East
Arab world |
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| storytelling; singing:- |
Cheltenham, England: The Town Hall
12 Oct 1987 festival: Cheltenham Literature Festival |
| gift from:- |
storytelling group: The Company of Storytellers |
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