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Profile: Canadian Baba Brinkman performs rap versions of Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales"

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From: All Things Considered (NPR)
Date: 20050728
Author:ROBERT SIEGEL, MICHELE NORRIS

ROBERT SIEGEL, MICHELE NORRIS
All Things Considered (NPR)
07-28-2005
Profile: Canadian Baba Brinkman performs rap versions of Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales"

Host: ROBERT SIEGEL, MICHELE NORRIS
Time: 8:00-9:00 PM

ROBERT SIEGEL, host:

Warning: Lyrics in the following story contain adult themes, including but not limited to greed, prostitution, adultery, violence and naughty bits of the human body. They may offend some people, as they have for 600 years.

(Soundbite of song)

BABA BRINKMAN: (Rapping) Both awoke at first light, and their greed was refuted. They helped one another stand ...

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