Mezzo Soprano – Kitty Whately

Piano – Joseph Middleton

Sound – Jan Capinski

Animation by Jamie Hall and nwfrntiers:

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Lady Godiva was an English noblewoman who lived in the latter half of eleventh century England.

By legend dating back to the thirteenth century and memorialized in writing by monks, she was alleged to have ridden naked on horseback through the streets of Coventry as a way to provoke her husband into easing the heavy burden of taxation he had inflicted on his tenants.

Throughout the centuries since, her name has been invoked by writers, her face imagined by artists, and her body modelled by sculptors; even modern day marketers have used the legend to turn her into a sex symbol to sell chocolates.

It seems the whole world has by now heard of "Lady Godiva" and yet, how many of us really know her story?

Made during the 2020 Covid 19 lockdown, for Bitesize Proms, to raise money for Help Musicians UK. Please give generously and make this a summer to remember for all the right reasons: