In Our Time: Piers Plowman

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss William Langland's poem Piers the Plowman, written around 1370, about a man called who fell asleep on the Malvern Hills and dreamed of the titular plowman. This was a time between the Black Death and the Peasants' revolt, when Christians wanted to save their souls but doubted how best to do it - and had to live with that uncertainty