Mount your horse and begin your journey to Canterbury with Emma and Ria as they dig into an excellent movie and extremely loosey-goosey adaptation of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales—2001 cult classic A Knight’s Tale! Must an adaptation of a 14 century book be accurate or can it not simply operate on vibes alone? Why is the fact Chaucer is one of the movie protagonists accurate to the book? Who’s getting freaky in the Czech Republic on the weekend? All these questions answered and more in today’s episode.

Content warnings for The Canterbury Tales includes: stories of violence, stories of rape, and 1390’s typical racism, sexism, religious opinions, and fart jokes.

Content warnings for A Knight’s Tale (2001) includes: jousting violence, pre-9/11 crude humor, and a naked Paul Bettany.

The articles Emma references in this episode can be found here:

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-may-14-ca-63182-story.html

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/feb/16/how-we-made-a-knights-tale-heath-ledger-paul-bettany-brian-helgeland

https://www.theringer.com/2021/05/11/movies/knights-tale-heath-ledger-behind-the-scenes-stories-paul-bettany

https://splicedwire.com/01features/bhelgeland.html

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The music for this show was commissioned from and composed by Jake Loranger. You can check out more of his work at https://amaranthine.bandcamp.com/