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Billie Piper shines a new light on Chaucer.

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From: The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
Date: 20030831
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Byline: BONNIE GREER

The BBC's Canterbury Tales is a modern reworking of Geoffrey Chaucer's poems of the stories told by pilgrims on their way to the shrine of St Thomas Becket.

There are six films, each of which takes a snippet of one of the poems and from it develops a 21st-century story. It is a risky venture, but it succeeds so well that you want to go back and read, or reread, the original tales.

The episodes I've seen so far - The Knight's Tale, The Miller's Tale, and The Sea Captain's Tale - are completely delightful. And, what's more, the series has produced ...

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