Fry's English Delight

Fry's English Delight
Genre Documentary
Running time 30 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language(s) English
Home station BBC Radio 4
Starring Stephen Fry
Creator(s) Testbed Productions www.testbed.co.uk
Producer(s) Nick Baker, Sarah Cuddon, Merilyn Harris, Ian Gardhouse
Air dates since 25 August 2008
No. of series 8 (plus one winter special)
No. of episodes 29
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.

Episode guide

SeriesEpisodeTitleFirst broadcast
11Metaphor25 Aug 2008
2Quotation1 Sep 2008
3Cliché8 Sep 2008
21So Wrong It's Right11 Aug 2009
2Speaking Proper18 Aug 2009
3Hello!25 Aug 2009
31The Trial of Qwerty11 Aug 2010
2He Said, She Said18 Aug 2010
3Accentuate the Negative25 Aug 2010
4Future Conditional1 Sep 2010
Winter SpecialWord Games28 Dec 2010
41The Mouth11 Jul 2011
2Brevity18 Jul 2011
3Persuasion25 Jul 2011
4Class1 Aug 2011
51Colourful Language[2]16 Aug 2012
2Intonation23 Aug 2012
3Conversation30 Aug 2012
4The Story of X6 Sep 2012
6[3]1Rhetoric Rehabilitated26 Aug 2013
2Spelling2 Sep 2013
3Words without End9 Sep 2013
4WTF16 Sep 2013
71Magic4 Aug 2014
2Capital Punishment11 Aug 2014
3Reading Aloud18 Aug 2014
4Plain English25 Aug 2014
81Words Fail Me12 Aug 2015
2Talking about the Weather18 Aug 2015
3Do You Promise Not to Tell?25 Aug 2015
4English Plus One1 Sep 2015

Audiobooks

With the exception of series 8, every episode of Fry's English Delight has been released on CD and is also currently available in the form of audio downloads.[4] 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 4 June 2009
Series 2 29 March 2010
Series 3 11 October 2010
Word Games 7 July 2011
Series 4 8 September 2011
Series 5 20 September 2012
Series 6 12 September 2013
Series 7 12 September 2014

References

  1. "Fry's English Delight". BBC. Retrieved 10 Sep 2012.
  2. "Fry's English Delight: Episode 1". BBC. Retrieved 8 Sep 2012.
  3. "Fry's English Delight: Season 6 Episode Guide". BBC. Retrieved 10 Sep 2013.
  4. "Commercial Availability: Fry's English Delight". BBC. Retrieved 8 Sep 2012.

External links

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