Melvyn Bragg travels through Britain to tell the story of how an insignificant German dialect, which only arrived in the country in the fifth century, evolved into a language which is now spoken and understood by more people than any other around the world. We trace English from its humble roots to its flowering in the writing of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. English is a global language. Every day, in cities all around the world, English is used in encounters between people of different…
Melvyn Bragg travels through Britain to tell the story of how an insignificant German dialect, which only arrived in the country in the fifth century, evolved into a language which is now spoken and understood by more people than any other around the world. We trace English from its humble roots to its flowering in the writing of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. English is a global language. Every day, in cities all around the world, English is used in encounters between people of different…
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Seasons (1)
Season 1
6 Nov 2003 – 27 Nov 2003 · 8 episodes
1Birth of a Language6 Nov 2003
2English Goes Underground6 Nov 2003
3The Battle for the Language of the Bible13 Nov 2003
4This Earth, This Realm, This England13 Nov 2003
5English in America20 Nov 2003
6Speaking Proper20 Nov 2003
7The Language of Empire27 Nov 2003
8Many Tongues Called English, One World Language27 Nov 2003