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Fry's English Delight
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| show_name | Fry's English Delight |
| format | Documentary |
| runtime | 30 minutes |
| country | United Kingdom |
| language | English |
| home_station | BBC Radio 4 |
| starring | Stephen Fry |
| creator | Testbed Productions www.testbed.co.uk |
| producer | Nick Baker, Sarah Cuddon, Merilyn Harris, Ian Gardhouse |
| first_aired | 25 August 2008 |
| num_series | 10 (plus one winter special) |
| num_episodes | 37 |
| website |
Fry's English Delight is a BBC Radio 4 documentary series in which language enthusiast Stephen Fry explores various aspects of the English language.
The title is an allusion to the British confectionery Fry's Turkish Delight.
Episode guide
| 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 | 16 Aug 2012 |
| 2 | Intonation | 23 Aug 2012 | |
| 3 | Conversation | 30 Aug 2012 | |
| 4 | The Story of [X](x) | 6 Sep 2012 | |
| 6 | 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 |
Audiobooks
Up to series 7, every episode of Fry's English Delight has been released on CD and is also currently available in the form of audio downloads. The first series also contains the 2007 documentary Current Puns presented by Fry on Radio 4 on 26 December 2007. The second series contains the 2006 documentary The Joy of Gibberish, presented by Fry on Radio 4 on 3 January 2006.
| Series | CD release date |
|---|---|
| Series 1 | |
| Series 2 | |
| Series 3 | |
| Word Games | |
| Series 4 | |
| Series 5 | |
| Series 6 | |
| Series 7 |
References
References
- "Fry's English Delight". BBC.
- "Fry's English Delight: Episode 1". BBC.
- "Fry's English Delight: Season 6 Episode Guide". BBC.
- "Commercial Availability: Fry's English Delight". BBC.
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