November 6, 2003 • 1h 5m
We are going to delve down to the roots of the language and deduce its history - and in that one sentence we hear words from four ...Read more
November 6, 2003 • 1h 5m
We see how England was ruled for three centuries after the Conquest by a French-speaking king and court which used Latin for their...Read more
November 13, 2003 • 1h 5m
This is the story of how English became the battleground in the fight for men's souls. The medieval church establishment kept the ...Read more
November 13, 2003 • 1h 5m
Visiting the England of Queen Elizabeth the First shows how naval enterprise and foreign trade brought scores of new words into th...Read more
November 20, 2003 • 1h 5m
Following the English language on its journey overseas and tracing the story of how the language of the British Isles became a lan...Read more
November 20, 2003 • 1h 5m
In eighteenth century Britain, the first English dictionary was produced. A cohort of grammarians imposed new rules on the languag...Read more
November 27, 2003 • 1h 5m
Travelling to parts of the former British Empire, we see how English met other cultures and other languages, and was enriched by t...Read more
November 27, 2003 • 1h 5m
The concluding episode looks at how in the 20th century the rise of America as an industrial power has made it the driving force b...Read more