Fry’s English Delight, Series 3 by Stephen Fry (BBC Radio 4, 2010) The English language has few champions like Stephen Fry – not merely one who uses with relish, but one who advocates. Fry’s English Delight Series 3 puts Qwerty on trial, explores gender differences, fails to naysay the negative, and ponders evolutions to come.
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42 Word Review: Fry’s Planet Word by Stephen Fry
Fry’s Planet Word by Stephen Fry (BBC, 2011) Across five one-hour episodes and with the prowling inquisitiveness of a deep-seated, rapacious word-lust unleashed, Stephen Fry — elegant, eloquent, ebullient — serves gallantly to inspire us with the origins and spread, the significance, the myriad uses, and above all the beauty, of language.