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Sweetest Flesh on Earth,
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Sound recording, story; 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 Speke Hall, Dowlish Wake, 30th November 1990 | |
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Music played by The Company of Storytellers, followed by 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 the 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 |
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condition:- | good; fair |
completeness:- | complete |
duration:- | 0 hours, 5 minutes, 46 seconds |
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The Company of Storytellers at this time comprised Ben Haggarty, Sally Pomme Clayton and Hugh Lupton. | |
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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:- | storytelling group: The Company of Storytellers |
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storytelling:- |
storyteller; musician: Hugh Lupton male / British / English / Welsh |
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storytelling:- |
storyteller; musician: Sally Pomme Clayton female / British |
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storyteller; musician: Ben Haggarty male / British / born 30.11.1958 |
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Middle East
Arab world |
storytelling:- |
Dowlish Wake, Somerset, England: Speke Hall
30 Nov 1990 public performance |
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