Stories are The Friar's Tale, The Summoner's Tale, The Lawyer's Tale, The Seaman's Tale, The Prioress's Tale, The Manciple's Tale and The Physician's Tale. They all paint a vivid picture of fourteenth-century medieval life, society, and values both with whit and wonderful imigery.
Patricia Routledge and Prunella Scales star in Ladies of Letters and Ladies of More Letters, the two popular BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour series. Patricia Routledge is Vera Small and Prunella Scales is her friend (or maybe enemy), Irene Spencer. The two pass their time in regular correspondence and not an event goes by that is left unrecorded by the ladies of letters. Firstly there are the usual family problems to...