Seasons & Episodes
Birth of a Language
We are going to delve down to the roots of the language and deduce its history - and in that one sentence we hear words
English Goes Underground
We see how England was ruled for three centuries after the Conquest by a French-speaking king and court which used Latin
The Battle for the Language of the Bible
This is the story of how English became the battleground in the fight for men's souls. The medieval church establishment
This Earth, This Realm, This England
Visiting the England of Queen Elizabeth the First shows how naval enterprise and foreign trade brought scores of new wor
English in America
Following the English language on its journey overseas and tracing the story of how the language of the British Isles be
Speaking Proper
In eighteenth century Britain, the first English dictionary was produced. A cohort of grammarians imposed new rules on t
The Language of Empire
Travelling to parts of the former British Empire, we see how English met other cultures and other languages, and was enr
Many Tongues Called English, One World Language
The concluding episode looks at how in the 20th century the rise of America as an industrial power has made it the drivi
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