Three Screaming Popes
Second of four programmes in which Jeremy Summerly presents music from a number of defining moments in papal history. This evening, in the company of Christopher Page and Eamon Duffy , he focuses on the extraordinary output of Abbess Hildegard of Bingen and the decadent polyphony that sprang up around the courts of various rival popes at the end of the Middle Ages. Producer Antony Pitts