Canterbury Tales

Latest Episodes

• Season 1 Episode 6: The Man of Law's Tale

  The series of Chaucer adaptations draws to a close with this modern-day reworking of The Man of Law's Tale. A Nigerian refugee woman is washed up in a small boat near the Chatham Estuary and befriended by the couple who find her. A devout Christian, she appears deeply troubled by her past, but cannot remember much of what has happened to her. But when two men fall for her, there follows a potentially tragic chain of events leading right back to her homeland. Nikki Amuka-Bird, Andrew Lincoln and Adam Kotz star

• Season 1 Episode 5: The Pardoner's Tale

  Drama loosely based on Chaucer's The Pardoner's Tale, starring Jonny Lee Miller. Three unemployed scoundrels, who make their money conning unsuspecting tourists, become embroiled in a plot involving the abduction of a teenage girl and a hoard of gold

• Season 1 Episode 4: The Sea Captain's Tale

  Drama loosely based on Chaucer's The Sea Captain's Tale. The wife of a wealthy Asian mobster finds herself £11,000 in debt, and resorts to selling sexual favours to his nephew to earn the money back, though emotional complications begin to interfere with the transaction. Starring Om Puri