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Back in June I was thrilled to get another chance to broadcast an Essay on BBC Radio 3.  This one was about John Gower, “the forgotten medieval poet”.  So I dusted off my Middle English, paid a quick trip to Southwark Cathedral, and did my best to convey the amazing range of this 14th-century Kentish curmudgeon. You can listen now at https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b7hvgy.  It was recorded with a live audience at the fantastic York Festival of Ideas.  I did get rather carr