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The Londoner's Diary

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From: Evening Standard - London
Date: 20080123
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TODAY presenter Ed Stourton, who has been in Afghanistan for the BBC, reveals a curious choice of hero in the latest Psychologies magazine Geoffrey Chaucer, author of The Canterbury Tales.

"Being locked away with 600 other boys and 100 celibate monks on the Yorkshire moors was a rich emotional experience ... but there was no denying that the sexual climate of the place was somewhat out of the ordinary," Stourton writes of his schooldays at Ampleforth. "Chaucer kept me relatively sane ... He is a compelling storyteller, he uses the language of ordinary speech (although he was himself a very ...

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