* The rascally Turks had broached me upon a spit all larded like a rabbit, for I was so dry and meagre, that, otherwise, of my flesh they would have made very bad meat.'
Panurge relates to Pantagruel the story of his escape from the Turks.
An excerpt from
Thomas Urquhart 's version of Rabelais's Pantagruel read by Frank Pettingell
A second reading tomorrow at 8.40
