Fry’s Planet Word

Synopsis: In this five-part, BBC television series renowned polymath and wordsmith Stephen Fry investigates how language has played a crucial role in human evolution. He travels the world to learn the history of communication, from the origins of the spoken word to the cyber age of html, codes and texting. He explores how we learn language, write it and sometimes lose it, and why it defines us. Includes a brief sequence in which Fry joins in a one night benefit for the Washington Shakespeare Company ‘By Any Other Name: An Evening of Shakespeare in Klingon’.He joins in the Laertes/Hamlet duel scene.
Series: Fry’s Planet Word
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Television
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Year of release: 2012
Year of production: 2011
Notes: Broadcast weekly on BBC2 beginning 25/9/2011
Subjects: English language and literature; Languages; Linguistics
Keywords: English language; language; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Linguistics; Klingon; history of language

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