Episode 32a - The Canterbury Tales, PART ONE
11/09/22 • 63 min
Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In Part One of our thirty-second episode, we experience a whole lot of firsts: the first substantial work of English literature, our podcast's first guest spot, and the first time we gave up on an episode halfway through. Brace yourself for a bawdy, boozy, scatological good time with the first half of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales (1400).
Cover art © Catherine Wu.
Episode theme: Anonymous, 'Weltliche Musik um 1300', performed by the Studio der frühen Musik
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Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In Part One of our thirty-second episode, we experience a whole lot of firsts: the first substantial work of English literature, our podcast's first guest spot, and the first time we gave up on an episode halfway through. Brace yourself for a bawdy, boozy, scatological good time with the first half of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales (1400).
Cover art © Catherine Wu.
Episode theme: Anonymous, 'Weltliche Musik um 1300', performed by the Studio der frühen Musik
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Cover art © Catherine Wu.
Episode theme: Alexander Scriabin, 'Prelude No.1, Op. 67'
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Episode 32b - The Canterbury Tales, PART TWO
Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In Part Two of our thirty-second episode, we keep the bawdy scatological humour up in the second half of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales (1400). It's all farts, penned-in sex-yards, and apologies to Jesus.
Cover art © Catherine Wu.
Episode theme: Anonymous, 'Weltliche Musik um 1300', performed by the Studio der frühen Musik
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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