Canterbury Tales Audiobook by Chaucer read by Martin Starke and Prunella Scales

[@beechnut8779]

I had this on a cassette tape years and years ago. How fun to hear it again! Thanks for posting.

[@andrewquintanawrites]

Thanks for posting this !!! ❤❤

[@rosemaryedwards3293]

Brilliant adaptation - I have always loved Chaucer, since I studied the Wife of Bath's Tale for my A-level English over 50 years ago!

[@Constantine-g7o]

Wonderful!

[@JohnChampagne]

I was fasting, to protest utter neglect of ideas that could be the basis of a sustainable and more just civilization. Someone reported me to authorities as being a danger to myself. I was taken against my will to a psychiatric ward, and soon threatened with being force-fed and subjected to ECT. I buckled under that pressure, after hearing a Court confirm that authority stood behind the threat. While locked up in the following week, I sought advice from a friend about what I should read. He speaks Old English, so I asked specifically about Chaucer. He recommended the "Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale" (and a couple of other tales). I read 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' aloud to my 'cellmate'. I started crying when the Old Woman was asking for the origin of the distinction between gentlemen and commoner, given that we are all descended from the same Adam. (This exact point seems to be omitted from this reading.) When John Ball asked that question at about the time that these stories were assembled, he soon lost his head. (Also omitted: The old woman promised that she would appear to others as an old, ugly woman, so that, if he leaves the house, he need not worry whether she will remain faithful if some traveler happens by. She touches on this point here, by pointing out that, if she is beautiful, he will be seeing people come to visit *because* they want to see her.)

[@jimmyadams628]

Wow😊

[@mikebarker6979]

BASIL

[@seanharvey3370]

Do you have the eagle has landed as read by Edward Fox