BBC R4 - Giovanni Boccaccio's 'The Decameron'
Translated by Jonathon Dryden-Taylor
Music by Anthony Ruly
Produced by Richard Blake
Directed by Don Taylor
Broadcast in three parts - August 1, 8 & 15, 1998
Coded from tape at 128/44.1
Thanks to aesahaettrt for parts 1 & 2

1304. Plague and disorder ravage Florence.
A small party of young men and women escape
into the country. There they pass the time by
telling scandalous stories to one another.

This production consists dramatisations of
about twenty of these stories. You'll probably
know some of them in other guises - such as
in the plot of 'Entertaining Mr Sloane'.

Worth reading The Decameron's introduction for
Boccaccio's eyewitness account of the impact of
the plague on Florence - echoes of Thucydides'
account of the Athenian plague.

Cast
Max Digby
Roger Allan
Richard Hope
Rebecca Front
Eleanor Tremain
Sarah Griffths
Lucy Tregear
Abigail Thaw
Lucy Taylor
Kate Byers
Roger May
Christopher Staines
Helen Atkinson-Wood
Jonathon Dryden-Taylor