Fry's English Delight
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| Genre | Documentary |
|---|---|
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Language(s) | English |
| Home station | BBC Radio 4 |
| Starring | Stephen Fry |
| Created by | Testbed Productions www.testbed.co.uk |
| Produced by | Nick Baker, Sarah Cuddon, Merilyn Harris, Ian Gardhouse |
| Original release | 25 August 2008 |
| No. of series | 10 (plus one winter special) |
| No. of episodes | 37 |
| Website | Fry's English Delight |
Fry's English Delight is a BBC Radio 4 documentary series in which language enthusiast Stephen Fry explores various aspects of the English language.[1]
The title is an allusion to the British confectionery Fry's Turkish Delight.
| Series | Episode | Title | First broadcast |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Metaphor | 25 Aug 2008 |
| 2 | Quotation | 1 Sep 2008 | |
| 3 | Cliché | 8 Sep 2008 | |
| 2 | 1 | So Wrong It's Right | 11 Aug 2009 |
| 2 | Speaking Proper | 18 Aug 2009 | |
| 3 | Hallo! | 25 Aug 2009 | |
| 3 | 1 | The Trial of Qwerty | 11 Aug 2010 |
| 2 | He Said, She Said | 18 Aug 2010 | |
| 3 | Accentuate the Negative | 25 Aug 2010 | |
| 4 | Future Conditional | 1 Sep 2010 | |
| Winter Special | Word Games | 28 Dec 2010 | |
| 4 | 1 | The Mouth | 11 Jul 2011 |
| 2 | Brevity | 18 Jul 2011 | |
| 3 | Persuasion | 25 Jul 2011 | |
| 4 | Class | 1 Aug 2011 | |
| 5 | 1 | Colourful Language[2] | 16 Aug 2012 |
| 2 | Intonation | 23 Aug 2012 | |
| 3 | Conversation | 30 Aug 2012 | |
| 4 | The Story of X | 6 Sep 2012 | |
| 6[3] | 1 | Rhetoric Rehabilitated | 26 Aug 2013 |
| 2 | Spelling | 2 Sep 2013 | |
| 3 | Words without End | 9 Sep 2013 | |
| 4 | WTF | 16 Sep 2013 | |
| 7 | 1 | Magic | 4 Aug 2014 |
| 2 | Capital Punishment | 11 Aug 2014 | |
| 3 | Reading Aloud | 18 Aug 2014 | |
| 4 | Plain English | 25 Aug 2014 | |
| 8 | 1 | Words Fail Me | 12 Aug 2015 |
| 2 | Talking about the Weather | 18 Aug 2015 | |
| 3 | Do You Promise Not to Tell? | 25 Aug 2015 | |
| 4 | English Plus One | 1 Sep 2015 | |
| 9 | 1 | Let's Get Physical | 5 Feb 2017 |
| 2 | The Story of Oh! | 12 Feb 2017 | |
| 3 | English Upside Down | 19 Feb 2017 | |
| 4 | That Way Madness Lies | 26 Feb 2017 | |
| 10 | 1 | Order! | 6 Aug 2019 |
| 2 | You Must Remember This | 13 Aug 2019 | |
| 3 | The Doolittle Factor | 20 Aug 2019 | |
| 4 | Signs of the Times | 27 Aug 2019 | |
