<P> On April 26, 1986, American radio personality Garrison Keillor opened "The News from Lake Wobegon" portion of the first live TV broadcast of his A Prairie Home Companion radio show with a reading of the original Middle English text of the General Prologue . He commented, "Although those words were written more than 600 years ago, they still describe spring ." </P> <P> Television adaptations include Alan Plater's 1975 re-telling of the stories in a series of plays for BBC2: Trinity Tales . In 2003, BBC again featured modern re-tellings of selected tales . </P> <Ul> <Li> <P> The Knight </P> </Li> <Li> <P> The Squire </P> </Li> <Li> <P> The Reeve </P> </Li> <Li> <P> The Miller </P> </Li> <Li> <P> The Cook </P> </Li> <Li> <P> The Wife of Bath </P> </Li> <Li> <P> The Franklin </P> </Li> <Li> <P> The Shipman </P> </Li> <Li> <P> The Manciple </P> </Li> <Li> <P> The Merchant </P> </Li> <Li> <P> The Clerk of Oxford </P> </Li> <Li> <P> The Sergeant of Law </P> </Li> <Li> <P> The Physician </P> </Li> <Li> <P> The Parson </P> </Li> <Li> <P> The Monk </P> </Li> <Li> <P> The Prioress </P> </Li> <Li> <P> The Second Nun </P> </Li> <Li> <P> The Nun's Priest </P> </Li> <Li> <P> The Friar </P> </Li> <Li> <P> The Summoner </P> </Li> <Li> <P> The Pardoner </P> </Li> <Li> <P> The Canon Yeoman </P> </Li> <Li> <P> Geoffrey Chaucer </P> </Li> </Ul> <Li> <P> The Knight </P> </Li>

Who tells the first story in the canterbury tales