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From: The Northern Echo
Date: 20030912
Author:Steve Pratt

Canterbury Tales: The Miller's Tale (BBC1) IN common with thousands of people, I have fond memories of studying Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales at school. Not for the joy of revelling in his use of English or the uplifting morals contained in the stories. No, we loved Chaucer because of the dirty bits.

They were the nearest smutty-minded schoolboys (and girls) got to porn in the days when the top shelf in the newsagent was restricted to Playboy and the dirtiest thing on the telly was the film of dust on the top where your mum hadn't dusted.

The only thing I remembered about The Miller's ...

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