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The Pardoners Tale

The Nonnes Preeste’s Tale | The Frankeleyns Tale, in Middle English

These three tales from The Canterbury Tales are read in the original Middle English by Richard Bebb under the direction of Britain’s foremost Chaucer scholar, Derek Brewer. This was Bebb’s last recording – he died shortly after finishing it – but though ill at the time, his strong professional ethic ensured that it lacks none of the brightness and accuracy that he brought to his two other Chaucer recordings on Naxos AudioBooks: The General Prologue and The Knyghtes Tale.

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Running Time: 2 h 39 m

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ISBN:	978-962-634-439-2
Digital ISBN:	978-962-954-651-9
Cat. no.:	NA243912
Download size:	39 MB
BISAC:	POE022000
Released:	January 2007

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Richard Bebb

Born in London in 1927, Richard Bebb was educated at Highgate School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He became an actor in 1947 in Michael Redgrave’s Macbeth and then spent two years in repertory at Buxton and Croydon, where he met his future wife, the late Gwen Watford. They married in 1952 and had two sons. From 1950 he worked regularly in all the theatrical media. He has appeared in a handful of West End plays, made over a thousand broadcasts, including sharing the narration with Richard Burton in the BBC recording of Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood and also appeared in almost two hundred television plays, including Alan Bennett’s A Question of Attribution; among other television appearances were Barchester Towers and Agatha Christie’s A Murder Has Been Announced. His one important film appearance was as the successful cricketer in Terence Rattigan’s The Final Test. He owns the largest collection of historic 78s of opera singers in England and has lectured at Yale, Harvard, Princetown and the Smithsonion on theatrical and musical subjects. He discovered the unknown cylinder recordings of Sir Henry Irving.

Titles read by Richard Bebb

Titles read by Richard Bebb: The Essential Dylan Thomas (unabridged); The General Prologue & The Physician’s Tale (unabridged); The Knyghte’s Tale (unabridged); The Pardoners Tale (unabridged); Under Milk Wood and other plays (unabridged)

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The Pardoners Tale

Read by Richard Bebb

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