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

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