The Song of Roland

The audiodrama of this twelfth-century French epic allows listeners to hear the story as they might have in medieval time, when a traveling troubador would recite the poem in the village square. It describes the heroic exploits of Roland and the campaign of Charlemagne. Fired by the religious conviction that pagans are wrong and Christians are right, the world of chivalry and the ideals of its knights are brought to life through this aural rendition. The Song of Roland succeeds as a document of the medieval spirit.