The Canterbury Fails

Special guest stars Matt Sergi and Dylan Coley crash the Fails to discuss the unheralded and wild morality play about Life learning to Die and learning to Live, while Matt and David slowly sip a brown and yellow stripey concoction .

Secret codes, schizoid populism, radical Christian National MEGA-lomaniac spit-swapping doggerel and the seismic priestly violence washed down with an allspice lemon delight.

The barrage of William's assholery as he wrecks his own people, and the barrage of high Scoville agony as David wrecks Matt.

Two presenters pick apart a tricky medieval poem and its single-manuscript quirks. They trace 19th and 20th century editorial claims and modern scholarship about authorship. They debate whether the poem is Lancastrian propaganda and compare medieval media to modern fake news. A harshly critiqued cocktail sparks jokes about political tone and the odd flourishing of literature under bad rulers.

Dive into a world of Old English poetry as Matt and David unravel the complexities of the Junius Manuscript. Discover the engaging interplay between Nebuchadnezzar's dreams and tyrannical imagery. They explore how misreading signs can lead to tyranny while affirming divine power. Enjoy a tantalizing cocktail recipe that brings tiki vibes to the discussion, and engage in discussions comparing biblical texts to epic tales like Beowulf. All this, intertwined with a spirited critique of authority and the role of poetry in shaping political imagination!

Is Chaucer out of control? Is the Canterbury Fails studio out of control? Is this whole thing completely out of control? With tiki drinks.

5 minutes after David gets home from a late flight and breaks into his own house, we have to answer the simple question: "Can a poem be both a justification and an interrogation of the ways of God to man?" We try and mostly fail to figure out this Biblical epic, but we enjoy a potent monastic Calvados Pow! Right in the kisser. .

Can a compendium of terrifying recipes for female health problems represent resistance to patriarchal authoritarianism? And can a violet brandy disaster taste any worse? Find out on this week's Canterbury Fails.

A bearded Coley and plain faced Hussey debate Cynewulf's ethnic ideological steamroller with special guest appearance by a demon, Judas (not the one you think), and a very stern war-lady. Plus an anisette and smoke blasted cocktail.

CHAUCER'S DEAD. So dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dr. Gillespie and Dr Echard discuss this, plus John of Gaunt's decaying phallus, Gower's poseur tomb, King Arthur's butterfly bishop, and more.