Boy Willie (Image created using ChatGPT)
Narrated by David Oates
Educating Boy Willie is a classic Cornish dialect story made famous by the late storyteller Herbie Lean and recounted here in his own inimitable style by raconteur David Oates of Proper Job singers.
David Oates
David Oates is a Cornish bard who has published a history of Troon, entitled ‘Echoes of an Age,’ a guide to Godrevy and Gwithian, ‘Walk the hidden ways’ and a slim volume of his own verse, ‘Poems from the far west’. His unpublished work includes a reflection on a Cornish childhood, ‘What time do they close the gates, Mister?’ and a fictionalised story for young people based on the extant life of St Gwinear, with the working title, ‘The son of a king’. David is working on another guide in the ‘Walk the hidden ways’ series, entitled ‘Hard Rock country’.
David is a tenor singer with the well-known group, Proper Job based in mid- Cornwall and has collaborated with Portreath musician, Alice Allsworth, to write the lyrics for a number of songs about Cornwall and the Cornish.
