Decameron Nights - Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed From Boccaccio - BBC Radio 3 Drama - Giovanni Boccaccio Audiobook

Written by BBC Radio 3 Drama - Giovanni Boccaccio
Read by Performer - Robert Hollingworth Performer - Paula Chateauneuf Ciappelletto - Colin McFarlane Musciatto - Sam Dale Holy Friar - Michael Bertenshaw Federico - Monty d’Inverno
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Dramatization

First broadcast: BBC R3 Drama on 3
Type: MPEG 1.0 Layer 3 - 128 kbps mp3 – 44 khz - Stereo
Duration: 2 X 01 hour 15 minute episodes
Web rip, edited with mp3DirectCut
Writer - Giovanni Boccaccio
Adaptor - Robin Brooks
Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting.

Decameron Nights: Five Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio - Episode 1 of 2
Terry Jones introduces five ripping Renaissance yarns from The Decameron, starring John Finnemore, Ingrid Oliver, Carrie Quinlan, Lydia Leonard, Samuel Barnett, and Colin McFarlane.

The one hundred stories which make up Giovanni Boccaccio’s 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.

Radio 3 is retelling ten of these choice Florentine Fancies, this week and next, adapted by Robin Brooks. Tonight’s selection box of five tales has been broadcast every evening this week in the Essay. A further five dainties will be served in next week’s Drama on 3.

The music for the series is arranged and performed by Robert Hollingworth, Director of I Fagiolini, and the lutenist Paula Chateauneuf, with translations by Silvia Reseghetti. The script consultant is Guyda Armstrong.

SAINT CIAPPELLETTO
All is not what it seems, when a fourteenth-century Tony Soprano makes his deathbed confession.

FEDERIGO AND HIS FALCON
Courtly Federigo spends every last groat trying to win the affections of the beautiful Monna. But there is only one thing of his that she wants. And it has feathers.

HOW ELENA BLEW HOT AND COLD
Widowed Elena sleeps around, though she likes to keep up appearances. But when she snubs one man for the amusement of another, she picks the wrong victim.

HOW TO GET IT OFF YOUR CHEST
When Zeppa discovers his wife with his best friend, he’s keen to make a proportionate response.

KIND HEARTS AND BAYONETS
Mithridanes wants to be a wise and generous benefactor. Sadly, his neighbour Nathan is always wiser and more generous. How best to deal with this problem? Wisely and generously? Or…. not so much?

Decameron Nights: Five More Italian Indelicacies Remixed From Boccaccio - Episode 2 of 2
Terry Jones introduces five more tasty Renaissance treats from The Decameron, starring Tim McInnerny, Neil Pearson, Louise Brealey, Paul Ritter and Tameka Empson.

THE SWEETEST YOUNG MAN IN PERUGIA
A young bride can’t work out why her marriage seems flat. Until she and her husband both meet the sweetest young man in Perugia.

THE WAGER
When Bernabo makes a bet on his wife’s chastity, and his friend sets out to prove him wrong, neither man imagines the matter will change their lives forever.

A JOB FOR THE BOYS
Masetto’s having a quiet drink, when the chance of a new job comes his way.

LOVES LIES SLEEPING
In the middle of the night, Beppo’s wife wakes him up to tell him a story. But his night is only just beginning.

A QUIET NIGHT IN NAPLES
Country boy Andreuccio comes to Naples to buy a horse. If only life in Naples were so straightforward.