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Revision as of 06:11, 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.
Contents
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
Broadcast by the BBC, directed by Howard Rose, National Programme Daventry, 28 January 1938 16.30. Listed in the Radio Times, Issue 747, 28 January 1938.
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://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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