The continent of europe e is gripped in a heat wave. It's some hottest day of the year, and london might hit 33 degrees. We're going to avoid all mention of politics,. even though people are probably clamouring for for a bit of that. So let's just remove those, those ideas from our minds to tell the kind of story we want to tell. And er, i was just king that this is going to be kind of like an episode of rick's book club, in a way, because the starting point for our conversation will be you got a book.
A conversation with my dad about a great medieval adventure story originally written in middle English and updated and translated into modern English by Simon Armitage. Dad talks about the origin of this story, its connection to the history of the English language, and the poetic devices used in the writing. In the second half I read a summarised version of the story and some verses from Armitage's modernised version.
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