Listen to Ambridge's The Canterbury Tales specials, part 1 and 2, on Saturday 29 December and Saturday 5 January. Writer Nick Warburton explains why The Archers is the perfect setting for Chaucer ...

Chaucer had planned (aveva pianificato) to continue the tales with another cycle which would follow (che avrebbe seguito) the return to London, the terrestrial city, after the visit to Canterbury.