This Cornish May-Day ceremony starts as Padstow clock chimes midnight and heralds in May
Day. Listeners hear recordings of what takes place, with a description by Leading Seaman Jan Channell
The origin of ' The Padstow Hobby Hoss' ceremony is lost in time. Something very similar can be seen as far off as in Central Africa. All we know for certain is that" the ' Hoss ' with its tarpaulin skirt, brightly-painted eyes, ' snappers, and the ' Teazer,' capering before it with his club, form part of some ancient annual rite which asks fertility of the summer