History's Youngest Heroes: St Francis of Assisi: Teen Rebel

History's Heroes

BBC

Documentary, History, Society & Culture

4.8 • 704 Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

A charismatic young man attracts a band of followers after denouncing his family fortune and devoting his life to the poor.

Nicola Coughlan shines a light on extraordinary young people from across history. Join her for 12 stories of rebellion, risk and the radical power of youth.

A BBC Studios Audio production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.

Series Producer: Suniti Somaiya Producer: Lorna Reader Executive Producer: Paul Smith Written by Alex von Tunzelmann Commissioning editor for Radio 4: Rhian Roberts

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0:00.0	Did you know that you can listen to many of your favourite podcasts first on BBC Sounds?
0:07.0	Like, you're dead to me, where you can hear the latest episode 28 days earlier.
0:11.6	So catch it before it becomes history.
0:14.6	Good things come to those who don't wait.
0:16.4	Listen to your favourite podcasts first on BBC Sounds.
0:21.7	BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts.
0:26.7	This story begins in the Middle Ages in central Italy.
0:31.9	It's in the area called Umbria.
0:35.0	It's a mountainous region.
0:36.6	All the cities are on hilltops.
0:39.0	This was for protection.
0:41.3	One such city was a CC.
0:43.7	It was not very large.
0:45.9	Maybe 10 to 12,000 residents.
0:49.7	It was a face-to-face society.
0:52.3	It was commercial.
0:57.0	The cloth trade was important. The year was 1205.
0:59.0	Within the cloth trading community,
1:02.0	a family feud was simmering.
1:04.0	But it wasn't about cloth.
1:07.0	Local silk merchant Pietre de Bernadone
1:10.0	wanted to have his son formally renounce any claim to his inheritance.
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