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How the Lark got its
Song
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Sound recording, story; How the Lark got its Song, a literary tale by Richard Adams, which has passed into the oral tradition as an apocryphal, aetiological or how and why story, told by Ben Haggarty as part of a performance by The Company of Storytellers, at Speke Hall, Dowlish Wake, 30th November 1990 | |
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Story told by Ben Haggarty about god colouring the birds of the earth, running out of paint, and consequently giving the Lark a beautiful song instead. | |
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audience:- | adult |
recording quality | |
condition:- | good; fair |
completeness:- | complete |
duration:- | 0 hours, 5 minutes, 10 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: Ben Haggarty male / British / born 30.11.1958 |
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author: Richard Adams
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storyteller: Hugh Lupton
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storyteller: Sally Pomme Clayton
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storytelling:- |
Dowlish Wake, Somerset, England: Speke Hall
30 Nov 1990 public performance |
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