A Quiet Night in Naples

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Terry Jones introduces a final 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. “Adventures which end in triumph.” Country boy Andreuccio comes to Naples to buy a horse. If only life in Naples were so straightforward. Andreuccio ..... Gunnar Cauthery Filomena ..... Roslyn Hill Scarabone ..... Shaun Mason Neighbour ..... David Acton Ludo ..... Paul Heath Bruno ..... Ian Conningham Sister Lisa ..... Elaine Claxton Sister Donna ..... Hannah Genesius 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.