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	''O Fat White Woman'' (1971) is an 80-minute television play produced for the series ''[[Play For Today]]''. The play was written by [[William Trevor]] and directed by [[Philip Saville]].		''O Fat White Woman'' (1971)<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067518 ''O Fat White Woman''] on imdb.com</ref> is an 80-minute television play produced for the series ''[[Play For Today]]''. The play was written by [[William Trevor]] and directed by [[Philip Saville]].

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	''O Fat White Woman'' (1971) is an 80-minute television play produced for the series ''Play For Today''. The play was written by [[William Trevor]] and directed by [[Philip Saville]].		''O Fat White Woman'' (1971) is an 80-minute television play produced for the series ''[[Play For Today]]''. The play was written by [[William Trevor]] and directed by [[Philip Saville]].

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	''O Fat White Woman'' (1971) is an 80-minute television play produced for the series ''Play For Today''. The play was written by William Trevor and directed by [[Philip Saville]].		''O Fat White Woman'' (1971) is an 80-minute television play produced for the series ''Play For Today''. The play was written by [[William Trevor]] and directed by [[Philip Saville]].

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	* Broadcast by the BBC as Play For Today: 4 November 1971.		* Broadcast by the BBC as Play For Today: 4 November 1971.
	* An alternative version of the audio used to be downloadable [http://www.mediafire.com/?g79bj95cgjm7q99 from MediaFire] containing an extra "long Amo Amas Abat" with other, unrelated music appended to it.		* An alternative version of the audio used to be downloadable [http://www.mediafire.com/?g79bj95cgjm7q99 from MediaFire] containing an extra "long Amo Amas Abat" with other, unrelated music appended to it.
	* ~~The whole play seems to have appeared~~ [~~http~~:~~//www~~.~~youtube~~.~~com/watch?v=sQazSFWjeW0 on YouTube~~]		* [[File:Play for Today S2E04 O Fat White Woman (1971, William Trevor, Philip Saville, music by Delia Derbyshire).avi.torrent]]
	* The Delian audio clips are included in the [[Delia Derbyshire Collection]] torrent.		* The Delian audio clips are included in the [[Delia Derbyshire Collection]] torrent.
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	* An alternative version of the audio used to be downloadable [http://www.mediafire.com/?g79bj95cgjm7q99 from MediaFire] containing an extra "long Amo Amas Abat" with other, unrelated music appended to it.		* An alternative version of the audio used to be downloadable [http://www.mediafire.com/?g79bj95cgjm7q99 from MediaFire] containing an extra "long Amo Amas Abat" with other, unrelated music appended to it.
	* The whole play seems to have appeared [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQazSFWjeW0 on YouTube]		* The whole play seems to have appeared [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQazSFWjeW0 on YouTube]
	* The Delian audio clips are included in [[~~File:~~Delia Derbyshire Collection~~.torrent~~]]		* The Delian audio clips are included in the [[Delia Derbyshire Collection]] torrent.
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	* Broadcast by the BBC as Play For Today: 4 November 1971.		* Broadcast by the BBC as Play For Today: 4 November 1971.
	* ~~The~~ alternative version of the audio is downloadable [http://www.mediafire.com/?g79bj95cgjm7q99 from MediaFire] ~~but contains~~ an extra "long Amo Amas Abat" ~~which has~~ other, unrelated music appended to it.		* An alternative version of the audio used to be downloadable [http://www.mediafire.com/?g79bj95cgjm7q99 from MediaFire] containing an extra "long Amo Amas Abat" with other, unrelated music appended to it.
	* The whole play seems to have appeared [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQazSFWjeW0 on YouTube]		* The whole play seems to have appeared [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQazSFWjeW0 on YouTube]
	* The Delian audio clips are included in [[File:Delia Derbyshire Collection.torrent]]		* The Delian audio clips are included in [[File:Delia Derbyshire Collection.torrent]]

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''O Fat White Woman'' (1971) is an 80-minute television play produced for the series ''Play For Today''. The play was written by William Trevor and directed by [[Philip Saville]].

<BLOCKQUOTE>
I remember Delia very well. She created a wonderful music/sound to
'Oh Fat White Woman'
    -- [[Philip Saville]], personal communication
</BLOCKQUOTE>

The title of the play is taken from Frances Cornford's poem:
<BLOCKQUOTE>
To a Fat Lady Seen From the Train
 O why do you walk through the fields in gloves,
      Missing so much and so much?
 O fat white woman whom nobody loves,
 Why do you walk through the fields in gloves,
 When the grass is soft as the breast of doves
      And shivering sweet to the touch?
 O why do you walk through the fields in gloves,
      Missing so much and so much?
</BLOCKQUOTE>
and the play is a “dark and unsettling drama focussed on the world of a sadistic Headmaster, his neglected wife, and the vulnerability of the children in his care...”<ref name=EChurch/>
Delia created score and voice treatments using the [[Delaware]] synthesizer<ref>[[Special Sound]], p.140.</ref> and a review in ''The Guardian'' said that the play's tense narrative was “sharpened with Delia Derbyshire's radiophonic raw-nerve noises”<ref>From Peter Fiddick's article "''Trevor Play''" in ''The Guardian'' on 5th November 1971, cited in [[Special Sound]], p.140.</ref>

= Music tracks =
The following tracks by Delia are used in the play (the names are invented by me):

* Wifty theme with "O Fat White Woman" poem) (0:48)
* Wifty theme with marching orders (0:39)
* Wifty theme (0:28)
* Wifty theme with Speed Bonny Boat (0:40)
* Chanting Latin verbs (1:25)
* Jolly Boating Weather (0:15)
* Dormitory theme (0:18)
* Dormitory theme with tooth brushing (0:17)
* Dormitory theme fragment (0:10)
* Marching, chanting, gossip, Perfect Love (1:33)
* Seeing double (1:13)
* Dormitory theme and seeing double (0:21)
* Seeing double, Raggett speaking to Mrs Digby Hunter (1:13)
* "Your husband takes pleasure from hurting people" (0:54)
* Raggett dies (0:19)
* Death knell (0:53)
* Death changes everything (0:49)
* [[Boys And Girls Come Out To Play]] (1:55)

An alternative analysis<ref name=EChurch>[http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=225041764219014 ''O Fat White Woman'' at the Electronic Church of St Delia on facebook.com]</ref> identifies and gives names to six pieces forming this work:
* Title (03:25) (the four "Wifty theme" entries)
* [[Amo Amas Amat]] (01:29) ("Chanting Latin verbs")
* The Major's Perspective (06:26) ("Jolly Boating Weather" to "Dormitory theme and seeing double")
* Injury (02:52) ("Seeing double, Raggett speaking" to "Raggett dies")
* Consequences (01:59) ("Death knell" and "Death changes everything")
* End Credits (01:55) ("Boys and Girls")

=Tapes=
* [[DD146]]: "Oh, Fat White Woman" Speech Tape
* [[DD154]]: "Speech: Fat White Woman treated"

[[David Butler]] says of these:
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The first tape runs to 21.15 minutes - but it's not music alas. The
tape is a recording of a studio session: recording speech for a voice
montage and presumably other voice-over sequences used in the
production. The tape contains different takes, studio banter and
direction from Philip Saville, the Cornford poem and some improvised
random dialogue in French.
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The second tape is the one where Delia comes in - it runs to 10.48
minutes and is principally made up of elements of speech from the
studio recording but electronically treated to give them a
non-naturalistic, subjective quality. The only music on this tape is
some extremely brief fragments of slow organ music at the outset (and
by brief I mean 9 seconds!) and then some brief organ chords
punctuating the spoken word.<ref>Personal communication, 1st April 2009</ref>
</BLOCKQUOTE>

=Availability=
* Broadcast by the BBC as Play For Today: 4 November 1971.
* The alternative version of the audio is downloadable [http://www.mediafire.com/?g79bj95cgjm7q99 from MediaFire] but contains an extra "long Amo Amas Abat" which has other, unrelated music appended to it.
* The whole play seems to have appeared [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQazSFWjeW0 on YouTube]
* The Delian audio clips are included in [[File:Delia Derbyshire Collection.torrent]]
{{Play|O Fat White Woman - Title}}
{{Play|Amo Amas Amat}}
{{Play|Jolly Boating Weather}}
{{Play|Dormitory theme}}
{{Play|Marching, chanting, gossip, Perfect Love}}
{{Play|Seeing double}}
{{Play|Consequences}}
{{Play|Boys And Girls Come Out To Play}}

=References=
<references/>

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