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National treasure and renowned wit Stephen Fry explores the highways and byways of the English language in these celebrated programmes.
In each episode, Fry explores the oddities and celebrates the curiosities of the language we use. His love of words is indulged with infectious enthusiasm and intellectual curiosity at all times.
From puns and metaphors to clichés and gibberish, this famously witty, incisive and engaging series explores the joys of the English language.
Episode List
- S01E01 – Metaphor
- S01E02 – Quotation
- S01E03 – Cliche
- S02E01 – So Wrong It’s Right
- S02E02 – Speaking Proper
- S02E03 – Hallo!
- S03E01 – The Trial of Qwerty
- S03E02 – He Said, She Said
- S03E03 – Accentuate The Negative
- S03E04 – Future Conditional
- S03ESP – Word Games
- S04E01 – The Mouth
- S04E02 – Brevity
- S04E03 – Persuasion
- S04E04 – Class
- S05E01 – Episode 1
- S05E02 – Intonation
- S05E03 – Conversation
- S05E04 – The Story of X
- S06E01 – Rhetoric Rehabilitated
- S06E02 – Spelling
- S06E03 – Words without End
- S06E04 – WTF
- S07E01 – Magic
- S07E02 – Capital Punishment
- S07E03 – Reading Aloud
- S07E04 – Plain English
- S08E01 – Words Fail Me
- S08E02 – Talking about the Weather
- S08E03 – Do You Promise Not to Tell
- S08E04 – English Plus One
- S09E01 – Let’s Get Physical
- S09E02 – The Story of Oh!
- S09E03 – English Upside Down
- S09E04 – That Way Madness Lies
- S10E01 – Order!
- S10E02 – You Must Remember This
- S10E03 – The Doolittle Factor
- S10E04 – Signs of the Times