Season
Season 1 Episode
- Season 1 Chaucer - Ted Hughes
- Season 1 Old English
- Season 1 Chaucer 1340-1400
- Season 1 Medieval - Elizabethan 1400-1600
- Season 1 Shakespeare 1564-1616
- Season 1 Metaphysical and Devotional 1590-1670
- Season 1 Milton 1608-1674
- Season 1 Restoration and Augustan 1660-1745
- Season 1 Romantic Pioneers 1750-1805
- Season 1 Wordsworth 1770-1850
- Season 1 Younger Romantics
- Season 1 Victorians 1837-1901
- Season 1 American Pioneers 1855-1910
- Season 1 Romantics and Realists
- Season 1 Early Twentieth Century 1914-1939
- Season 1 Towards the Present 1934-1984
Six Centuries of Verse - Season 1 Episode 3 Chaucer 1340-1400
6.00 400 minutes Chaucer was the first great named poet in English. This programme focuses on The Canterbury Tales, with a reading of the introduction by Gary Watson and a detailed exploration of The Pardoner's Tale.
