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Terry Jones introduces a final tasty Renaissance tale.

The 100 stories which make up Giovanni Boccaccio鈥檚 humane and comic masterpiece, come from all over the world.

They are vividly reset by Boccaccio among the flourishing merchant classes in the cities of Renaissance Italy. But their witty, satirical, bawdy voice sounds utterly modern, and their subjects - love, fate, sex, religion, morality - are universal.

鈥淎dventures which end in triumph.鈥�

Country boy Andreuccio comes to Naples to buy a horse. If only life in Naples were so straightforward.

Andreuccio ..... Gunnar Cauthery
Filomena ..... Roslyn Hill
Scarabone ..... Shaun Mason
Neighbour ..... David Acton
Ludo ..... Paul Heath
Bruno ..... Ian Conningham
Sister Lisa ..... Elaine Claxton
Sister Donna ..... Hannah Genesius

Music arranged and performed by Robert Hollingworth and Paula Chateauneuf.

Lyric translations by Silvia Reseghetti

Script consultant: Guyda Armstrong

Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting.

First broadcast on 麻豆社 Radio 3 in December 2014.

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