COUNTRY COD PIECES

Sid Kipper, "Norfolk's folk hero", leads a misguided tour of his own strange, but strangely familiar, village of St Just-near-Trunch.

Join him to travel up Jimmy Hill, down Cleo Lane, and round Glen Close.  See the sights, meet the characters, and hear the very best of the songs and stories associated with them (map).

There's 'The Happy Clappy Chappy', inspired by the new vicar, Rev 'Call-me-Derek' Bream (who's only been in the village since 1967), and 'The Farmer's Crumpet', loosely based on the life of Mrs Trout (who started out as a stable girl, but developed into a seriously unstable woman).  Plus the story of 'Sleeping Beauty And The Beast', seemingly born from several pints of Old Nasty in the Old Goat Inn.

Visit the church, the school, the graveyard, the bowls green and the village hall.  Meet the absent George Kipper, the late Albert Kipper, the unfortunate widows Hake, the eccentric Augustus Swineherd, and Bald General Coote.

And then, as the evening draws to a close, follow Sid down Jim Dale until you arrive at the Old Goat Inn for a pint or two, a packet of turkey scratchings, and a tour-de-farce of storytelling in 'My Bootiful Mawther'.

"Sid recreated a succession of weird and wonderful characters whose exploits provoked tears of laughter and prolonged applause".

(Salisbury Journal)

SONG FROM THE SHOW