Love Lies Sleeping

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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. 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. 'The loves which lead us to disaster'. In the middle of the night, Beppo’s wife wakes him up to tell him a story. And his night has only just begun. Silvestra ..... Laura Molyneux Beppo ..... Rudi Dharmalingam Giovanni ..... Joseph Drake Rinaldo ..... David Acton Mother ..... Jane Slavin 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.