A band of pilgrims are heading from London to Canterbury to visit the shrine of St Thomas Becket and decide to pass the time by recounting amazing stories of love, adventure, crime and religion that have enchanted people for centuries.
Homer, John Bunyan, Geoffrey Chaucer, Miguel Cervantes, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Oliver Goldsmith, Charles Dickens, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Winston Stokes, Harriet Beecher Stowe, E. Boyd Smith, Jennie Hall, Andrew Lang, Charles Lamb & Mary Lamb