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Decameron
- A BBC Radio Drama Adaptation of the Renaissance Classic
- Narrated by: Terry Jones, John Finnemore, Samuel Barnett, Colin McFarlane, Tim McInnerny, Neil Pearson, Louise Brealey, Paul Ritter, Tameka Empson, full cast
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Terry Jones introduces ten dramatisations of choice Florentine Fancies, adapted from Giovanni Boccaccio's classic human comedy by the BBC
Monty Python star and medieval historian Terry Jones presents ten BBC Radio dramatisations of tales from Giovanni Boccaccio's humane and comic masterpiece.
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The scene is the onset of the Black Death, Italy and a group of seven young women and three young men escape to the countryside to shelter in a secluded villa just outside of Florence in order to escape the Plague. There, they tell each other tales from all over the world.
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Pietro - Tim McInnerny
Madam - Hannah Genesius
Pandara - Jane Slavin
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Sister Lisa - Rhiannon Neads
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Silvestra - Laura Molyneux
Beppo - Rudi Dharmalingam
Giovanni - Joseph Drake
Mother - Jane Slavin
Rinaldo - David Acton
A Quiet Night in Naples
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
First broadcast BBC Radio 3, 1-12 December 2014
Written by Giovanni Boccaccio
Adapted by Robin Brooks
Music arranged and performed by Robert Hollingworth and Paula Chateauneuf
Translations by Silvia Reseghetti
Script consultant: Guyda Armstrong
Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting
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Two years after successfully melting down the top secret sperm bank under the Space Needle, the CLITO collective (Community of Lesbians Inclusive To Others) is thriving on their newly acquired private island, Lesbos 2. All is well in their queer utopia. Or is it? Investigative reporter Sarah Keebler (Sarah Steele) is piecing together the crew's previous heist for her bombshell true-crime podcast–and getting dangerously close to the truth.
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