Excellent! I highly recommend this series. Very interesting presentation and approach to history. And you’ll get to hear a little Middle and Old English.
http://historyofenglishpodcast.com/
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is one of the most popular English poems of the Middle Ages. In this episode, we explore the language and story of the poem. We also examine how the poem reflects certain changes that were taking place within the English language in the late 1300s.
[...]Source: History of English
Geoffrey Chaucer was one of the first English writers to compose dialogue in regional dialects to reflect the way characters spoke in the different parts of England. In this episode, we explore the dialogue of Chaucer's northern students in the Reeve's Tale, and we also examine the Second Shepherd's Play from the north of England which reflects a similar approach to regional dialects.
[...]Source: History of English