A Job for the Boys

Terry Jones introduces another tasty Renaissance tale.

Starring Neil Pearson and Tameka Empson, in a story about fun with nuns.

The 100 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.

'Those who lose something, and then regain it'.

Masetto’s having a quiet drink, when the chance of a new job comes his way.

Masetto ..... Neil Pearson
Sister Donna ..... Tameka Empson
Sister Lisa ..... Rhiannon Neads
Hildegard ..... Jane Slavin
Nuto ..... Sam Dale
Steward ..... Michael Bertenshaw

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.