Cathedral Life
Catherine Bott considers what life was like in a cathedral choir in the late 16th century.
The Early Music Show · BBC Radio 3
February 6, 201219m 58s
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Show Notes
Catherine Bott visits Lincoln to explore what it would have been like to be in a cathedral choir in the days of the "Father of English Music" William Byrd. Was the life of a 16th-century chorister so different to that of a 21st-century one?