Helen Cooper
Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge
3 episodes
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Le Morte d'Arthur
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Le Morte d'Arthur, Sir Thomas Malory's epic medieval tale of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table.
10 January 2013
Also featuring: Helen Fulton, Laura Ashe
Pastoral Literature
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss pastoral literature which looks at tensions between nature and art, the real and the ideal, the actual and the mythical.
6 July 2006
Also featuring: Laurence Lerner, Julie Sanders
Chaucer
Melvyn Bragg discusses Geoffrey Chaucer who immortalised the medieval pilgrimage and the diversity of 14th century English society, in his Canterbury Tales.
9 February 2006
Also featuring: Carolyne Larrington, Ardis Butterfield