Marion Turner
J. R. R. Tolkien Professor of English Literature and Language at the University of Oxford and Chaucer specialist, author of Chaucer: A European Life and The Wife of Bath, A Biography, providing expert historical and literary commentary in the episode.
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Feb 27, 2026 • 59min
Geoffrey Chaucer: the medieval father of English literature
Mike Wozniak, comedian and actor, brings comic performances and a Middle English reading. Professor Marion Turner, Chaucer specialist at Oxford, provides expert historical and literary context. They explore Chaucer’s life amid the Black Death and Hundred Years’ War. They trace his royal service, European travels, influences from Dante and Boccaccio, and the framing and variety of the Canterbury Tales.
Apr 30, 2026 • 53min
797 Marion Turner and Chaucer (Revisited)
Marion Turner, J. R. R. Tolkien Professor at Oxford and author of Chaucer: A European Life, guides listeners through Chaucer’s multilingual, cosmopolitan world. She traces his London origins, education, travels, poetic innovations and the Canterbury Tales’ deliberate incompletion. The conversation highlights Chaucer’s performance culture, earthy humour, and how archival research reshapes his biography.
Apr 27, 2026 • 48min
796 Marion Turner and The Wife of Bath (Revisited)
Marion Turner, J. R. R. Tolkien Professor at Oxford and Chaucer scholar, discusses Chaucer and her book on the Wife of Bath. She explores Chaucer's Italian influences, his inventive reworking of sources, and how travel shaped his style. The Wife of Bath is examined as a vivid, ordinary middle-aged woman whose voice provoked medieval readers and centuries of adaptation.
