

Geoffrey Chaucer in Kent. The poet and performer Patience Agbabi, author of Telling Tales (2014), makes a pilgrimage from Southwark to Canterbury with Henry. They discuss The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer as they travel by train, stopping off at Dartford and Rochester, covering Chaucer’s life and times, poetry and pilgrims, including the Knight, the Miller, the Wife of Bath and the Pardoner. In Canterbury they meet David Herd, co-founder of Refugee Tales, an annual public walk that raises awareness around indefinite immigration detention.
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/33721/the-canterbury-tales/9780140422344.html
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/33858/the-canterbury-tales/9780140424386.html
https://twitter.com/patienceagbabi
https://canongate.co.uk/books/2125-telling-tales/
https://commapress.co.uk/books/refugee-tales
https://www.kent.ac.uk/english/people/91/www.kent.ac.uk/english/people/91/herd-david
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34 episodes
Geoffrey Chaucer in Kent. The poet and performer Patience Agbabi, author of Telling Tales (2014), makes a pilgrimage from Southwark to Canterbury with Henry. They discuss The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer as they travel by train, stopping off at Dartford and Rochester, covering Chaucer’s life and times, poetry and pilgrims, including the Knight, the Miller, the Wife of Bath and the Pardoner. In Canterbury they meet David Herd, co-founder of Refugee Tales, an annual public walk that raises awareness around indefinite immigration detention.
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/33721/the-canterbury-tales/9780140422344.html
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/33858/the-canterbury-tales/9780140424386.html
https://twitter.com/patienceagbabi
https://canongate.co.uk/books/2125-telling-tales/
https://commapress.co.uk/books/refugee-tales
https://www.kent.ac.uk/english/people/91/www.kent.ac.uk/english/people/91/herd-david
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
34 episodes
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