 
  The Pearl of Great Price
        A short daily trip down the lane of Christian History.  Looking at the fascinating people and events that have shaped a universal civilisation. 
      
      
    The Pearl of Great Price
Oct 25 Chaucer and his Canterbury Tales
        
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        Tim Byron
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          Season 10
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          Episode 25
      
      Geoffrey Chaucer's stories of pilgrims on their way to the shrine of St Thomas a Becket have lead to him being called the father of English Literature, We look at his life, his writing and his ambiguous relationship with the church