Dr Todd Gray - Tom Cobley....The Devon Ballad that conquered Europe “Widdicombe Fair” was not only Devon’s most popular ballad but it went on to be sung in every corner of the British Empire. Dr. Gray’s illustrated lecture outlines its history, in word and song, in presenting some of the early variants and later adaptations including ‘Round the Horn’. What will emerge is a surprising history which references not only the Greek Resistance in 1940 and the Arctic explorations of the early 1900s but the French Foreign Legion tramping across North Africa – Unmissable.