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==''[[How Table Mountain Got Its Cloud]]'' A Legend of South Africa by [[Dorothy Black]]==
 
==''[[How Table Mountain Got Its Cloud]]'' A Legend of South Africa by [[Dorothy Black]]==
  
(Possibly) broadcast by the BBC, directed by Howard Rose, National Programme Daventry, 28 January 1938 16.30. (Source: http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/894575d9a32448d38b9b6d22f809fe7b)
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(Possibly) broadcast by the BBC, directed by Howard Rose, National Programme Daventry, 28 January 1938 16.30.  
  
 
==''[[How Table Mountain Got Its Cloud]]'',  a children's musical by [[Lara Bye]] and [[David Nissen]]==   
 
==''[[How Table Mountain Got Its Cloud]]'',  a children's musical by [[Lara Bye]] and [[David Nissen]]==   
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(Sources: http://m24arg02.naspers.com/argief/berigte/dieburger/1989/09/22/10/6.html &  
 
(Sources: http://m24arg02.naspers.com/argief/berigte/dieburger/1989/09/22/10/6.html &  
 
http://m24arg02.naspers.com/argief/berigte/dieburger/1989/09/26/14/6.html)
 
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Revision as of 05:49, 3 August 2015

How Table Mountain Got Its Cloud is the name of a legend about Van Hunks and the Devil, and the origins of cloud cover on Table, which has been appeared in various versions, and including dramatized versions.

Original story

The original myth was written up in English by the journalist and writer Ian D. Colvin (1877 - 1938)[1] as one of the many stories he collected in the volume South Africa as part of the Romance of Empire series published by T.C.& E.C. Jack of London, 1910.

Dramatised versions

How Table Mountain Got Its Cloud A Legend of South Africa by Dorothy Black

(Possibly) broadcast by the BBC, directed by Howard Rose, National Programme Daventry, 28 January 1938 16.30.

How Table Mountain Got Its Cloud, a children's musical by Lara Bye and David Nissen

Directed by Lara Bye, with music by David Nissen, it was performed in the Nico Malan Theatre in September 1989.

(Sources: http://m24arg02.naspers.com/argief/berigte/dieburger/1989/09/22/10/6.html & http://m24arg02.naspers.com/argief/berigte/dieburger/1989/09/26/14/6.html)

Sources

http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/894575d9a32448d38b9b6d22f809fe7b)

http://m24arg02.naspers.com/argief/berigte/dieburger/1989/09/22/10/6.html

http://m24arg02.naspers.com/argief/berigte/dieburger/1989/09/26/14/6.html


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