THE STORIES OF SID KIPPER
A fairly accurate record of nearly every story Sid has told, recorded, or
published.
(See end of list for the key.
References in round brackets indicate that only part of the story is featured on an album or in a book.
A link is provided if the story is available on this site.
Stories exist in different versions.
AWFULLY GOOD [3]
Sid
reviews Rev 'Call-Me-Derek' Bream's ambitious Old Testament musical.
BABES IN THE WOOD
A
tragic tale, in which no-one lives happy, ever, or after - and all because
they'd never been to the panto.
A cautionary tale of free-reed instruments.
BIG DICK OF WHITTINGTON [3] {C}
Cross-dressing with a talking pussy.
BIGOTS AGAINST TOLERANCE [(3)]
{(C)}
Farmer
Trout's manifesto, with the emphasis on the 'man'.
BUNFIGHT AT THE OK CHORALE [3] {C}
A yarn from the US's Docile East.
THE BURNINGHAM BODYLINE [3]
Classic cricket story, with full scorecard.
THE CASE OF COCK ROBIN
A
Miss Mardle mystery, by Christina Aga.
THE CASE OF THE CUCKOOS NEST [1] {B}
A Prince, a Princess, a quest. Classic.
CHRISTMAS AT DANKLY DULL
From the Nitpick Papers, by Augustus Swineherd.
CHRISTMAS WITH CAROL {C}
Abanazer
Screw gives Crotch Bobbit a surprise.
CLEVERCLOGS AND THE THREE BEARS [3] {C}
Classic tale from the Grim brothers, Ghastly and Grotty.
CRACKERS FOR FANNY [3] {B}
Proper litriture, as Fanny Power goes into society.
The story that made Sid a TV star.
DEREK'S LETTERS TO THE TRUNCHEONS [3]
{(C)}
Deep thought from Rev 'Call-Me-Derek' Bream.
THE DIGRESSION OF THE THREE GRUFF BILLY GOATS [3] {B}
A story of class - and lack of it.
FHEEP FHEARING
Ancient farming advice, originally printed in Kipperplate.
FLASH CARRIE
Not an instruction, but a revelation nonetheless.
FLORA AND FAUNA {C}
A short rustic ramble, with sound effects and unsound logic.
THE FOLK SINGING OLYMPICS [3]
Billy Kipper and Claude Cockle go head to toe.
GEORGE AND THE DRAGON [4]
George Kipper is surrounded by WPC Wendy Whelk.
THE GHOST OF THE OLD GOAT
A haunting saga of Legless Smugglers, Hopeless Causes and Topless
Waitresses.
THE GIMINGHAM IDIOTS PLAY [3]
Robin Hood meets the Notif of Sheringham in this drama from Mummerset.
THE HEADLESS HORSEMAN OF HAPPISBURGH [3] {B}
Ephraim Kipper has a misadventure in Demon's Wood.
Nelson
goes to the Nile to fight the French, only to discover that the Nile is in Egypt.
THE HORRIBLE HISTORY OF THE HARRY CELESTE [1] {B}
Albert Kipper's nautical narrative.
HOW THE COYPU DUG HIS GRAVE [3]
Real class, from Rudyard Kipper.
HOW THE TURKEY GOT HIS GOBBLE [1] {B}
Another classic from the St Just So Stories.
THE KILLING OF 'KEELHAUL' KIPPER
The truth about Nelson is not what England expected.
A MATTER OF PRINCESSIPLE
If women are better than men, then men really are bad!
MAY TO Z [3]
May Balls, and much, much more.
Santa
neglects to provide presents for his own children, with consequences that are
hilarious, but not for him!
MUTINY ON THE BOUNCY [3] {C}
A naval narrative with far-reaching consequences.
MY BOOTIFUL MAWTHER [3] {C}
Originally a musical, this is now a tour-de-farce of Norfolk
storytelling.
THE
NIGHT SOIL [2]
Rhythmic
rhyming, with its origins in the Cromer-Sheringham Crab Wars.
NO ROOM AT THE GOAT [3]
The Vicar of St Just-near-Trunch brings the Christmas story up to date.
PATHETIC [3] {C}
At last, the true story of the famous nautical disaster.
PETER
PAIN [3]
Augustus Swineherd's classic story of 'The Man Who Wouldn't Grow Up'.
PHYLIS FERRETS BIG DAY {B}
Gritty realism for tiny tots.
PICK OF THE WEAK [3]
Sid Kipper's highlights from Trunch Wireless.
THE PIED BLOWPIPER OF KINGS LYNN [3] {C}
Epic poetry, describing the infestation of Kings Lynn by brats.
PIERING OUT TO SEA [3]
The true story of Jimmy 'Am-I-Boring-You's fall to success.
REEDHAM AND WEEP
Clarry
Codbanger dies of love, and short sightedness.
ROBINSON CARUSO
The end of shanty singing, and, therefore, the days of sail.
THE ROMANCE OF RUMPLED STILTSKIN O'BUGGER [3] {C}
King Midas finds a maid who can spin gold into straw.
SCROBY DICK
Captain
Rehab takes on the great white cod. The
cod wins.
THE
SHAMAN OF ST JUST [3]
A missionary attempt to convert a Norfolk village to a strange faith.
THE SHAMING OF THE TRUE
Heard the one about the devil and the farmer's wife?
Not this one you haven't.
SHANTIES OF THE SEVEN Cs [(3)]
How smuggling led Albert Kipper to collect sea songs.
SHIP FASHION AND BRISTOL SHAPED [(3)]
{(C)}
Selected (and censored) extracts from Albert Kipper's life story.
THE SIRENS OF SCROBY SANDS [3] {C}
Three jolly seamen. Three
beautiful sirens. One inevitable
outcome.
SIR WAYNE AND THE GIANT, PEACH [3]
Icenic saga, with thongs, amulets and a challenge.
SIR WAYNE, THE GREEN KNIGHT [3] {B}
The classic quest story with dragon, potions, and damsel.
It does what it says on the philtre.
SLEEPING BEAUTY AND THE BEAST [3] {C}
A fairy tale for childish adults and the children of adultery.
THE SONG OF BOADIKIPPA
T S Idiot's song without tune, wherein our heroine outwits the haughty
Higher Purchase.
THE SPY WHO CAME IN WITH A COLD
George Kipper's hitherto secret wartime activities.
50s rarity, as a simple farm hand explains how he remembers what to do
on the farm.
THE STORY OF OO
How to pronounce that most Norfolk of vowels.
THE STORY
OF ST NICK OF TRUNCH
[1] {B}
An early epic of incomers getting their income-uppance.
THE TALE OF THE TONGUE-TIED TWO-TOED TOAD
A princess discovers what she wants, and the toad flogs the story to the
tabloids.
Swineherd's incomplete classic of identity, aristocracy and thingy.
THE
THREE WISE WOMEN
The
gender balance is redressed with this story, handed gingerly down through the
female line.
Tinker
Bell gains her revenge on Christmas, by not tinkering.
TRANSMATTER™ [3]
Chris Sugden's short story of a futuristic folk scene, in which a
fictional Bing Kipper woos and wins an equally fictional Maxine Nimby.
THE TRUNCH FLITCH {B}
A telling tale, sadly cut from Sid's book Prewd and Prejudice.
THE TRUNCH NIGHTSOILMAN'S PLAY [1]
In comes they, die, come back to life, then go out again.
You know the sort of thing.
THE UGLY SISTERS [3] {C}
If the cap fits, wear it - but not on your foot.
Well,
would you want to have a drowned sailor in your bedroom?
UNDERWOODS MILK [3]
Thomas Dylan's onomatopoeic offering.
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS STOLE MY FOLK SONG [3]
The bizarre but truish tale of Australian folk-song collector, Rofe
Vaughan Williams.
THE VIPER IN THE BOSOM
Vince Viper, the cunning tailor, keeps abreast of the Princess.
THE VOYAGE OF THE GOLDEN BEHIND {B}
Albert Kipper wins the round-Norfolk single-legged race, despite being a
biped.
BOOKS
[1] = The Ballad of Sid Kipper by Chris Sugden
and Sid Kipper
[2]
= Crab Wars by Chris Sugden and Sid Kipper
[3] = Cod Pieces by Chris Sugden and Sid Kipper
ALBUMS
{A} = Like A Rhinestone Ploughboy by Sid Kipper
{B} = Spineless by Sid Kipper
{C} = Cod Pieces by Sid Kipper
A copy of any story will be supplied on request
to:
Sidstory, 10 Perseverance Road, Queensbury,
Bradford, BD13 1LY.