Funny what you pick up at an agricultural show. This lovely anecdote was told to us at The Royal Norfolk Show in 2017. Beautifully captured by David.

The beautiful, bawdy and rotten medlar appears in Chaucer’s The Reeve’s Tale, four of Shakespeare’s plays, and Cervantes’ Don Quixote. Come on a brief literary journey with David, who wrote this in 2018.

My conversation with Steve and Emma Biggs of the Food Garden Life Show, recorded in December 2022. They are based in Toronto, where medlars grow well.