How to Get It Off Your Chest

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Terry Jones introduces another tasty Renaissance tale. The 100 stories which make up Giovanni Boccaccio’s humane and comic masterpiece come from all over the world. This Renaissance work is considered a landmark in the history of literature. The stories are vividly reset by Boccaccio among the flourishing merchant classes in the cities of 14th-century Italy. But their witty, satirical, bawdy voice sounds utterly modern, and their subjects - love, fate, sex, religion, morality - are universal. “The best ways to take revenge.” When Zeppa discovers his wife with his best friend, he's keen to make a proportionate response. Giovanni .... Jude Akuwudike Zeppa ..... Ian Conningham Spinelloccio ..... Shaun Mason Mrs Z ..... Hannah Genesius Mrs S ..... Bettrys Jones Adapted by Robin Brooks 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 BBC Radio 3 in December 2014.