Fry's English Delight
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| 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
| 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 | Hello! | 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[2] | 16 Aug 2012 |
| 2 | Intonation | 23 Aug 2012 | |
| 3 | Conversation | 30 Aug 2012 | |
| 4 | The Story of X | 6 Sep 2012 | |
| 6[3] | 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 | |
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 |
