Fry's Planet Word (2011–2011)
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Fry's Planet Word sees Stephen Fry finding out more about linguistic achievements and how our skills for the spoken word have changed. He dissects language in many of its guises.
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- S01E01BabelSeptember 25, 2011—In this first episode, Stephen seeks to uncover the origins of human language and how and why we are the only species on the planet to have
- S01E02IdentityOctober 2, 2011—What is it that defines us? Stephen argues that above all, it is the way we speak. Be it a national language, a regional dialect or even cla
- S01E03Uses and AbusesOctober 9, 2011—This programme looks at the ways language is used and abused. While not everyone approves of 'bad' language, Stephen learns that swearing pl
- S01E04Spreading the WordOctober 16, 2011—In this programme, Stephen Fry explores 'the written word'. Writing is a great invention - making it possible to communicate across space an
- S01E05The Power and the GloryOctober 23, 2011—In this programme, Stephen Fry celebrates storytelling. It has been with us as long as language itself and as a species, we love to tell our
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