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Fry's Planet Word

20111 Season59m episodes8.2

Documentary

TMDB8.2

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Runtime: 59m episodes
Genre: Documentary
Origin: GB

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Fry's Planet Word sees Stephen Fry finding out more about linguistic achievements and how our skills for the spoken word have changed. He dissects language in many of its guises.

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Not available to stream in United States yet.

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Director: John-Paul Davidson
Status: Ended
First aired: Sep 25, 2011
Network: BBC Two

Time to finish

5 hrs

5 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

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Stephen Fry

SERIES

Fry's Planet Word

20111 Season59m episodes8.2

Documentary

TMDB8.2

Votes6

Your rating

Runtime: 59m episodes
Genre: Documentary
Origin: GB

About

Fry's Planet Word sees Stephen Fry finding out more about linguistic achievements and how our skills for the spoken word have changed. He dissects language in many of its guises.

Where to watch

Region

Not available to stream in United States yet.

Episodes

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E1 · Airs Sep 25, 2011 · 1h 0m
Babel
In this first episode, Stephen seeks to uncover the origins of human language and how and why we are the only species on the planet to have this gift.
E2 · Airs Oct 2, 2011 · 1h 0m
Identity
What is it that defines us? Stephen argues that above all, it is the way we speak. Be it a national language, a regional dialect or even class variation - we interpret and define ourselves through our language.
E3 · Airs Oct 9, 2011 · 1h 0m
Uses and Abuses
This programme looks at the ways language is used and abused. While not everyone approves of 'bad' language, Stephen learns that swearing plays an important part in human communication the world over.
E4 · Airs Oct 16, 2011 · 1h 0m
Spreading the Word
In this programme, Stephen Fry explores 'the written word'. Writing is a great invention - making it possible to communicate across space and time. Without writing we would have no history and very little technology.
E5 · Airs Oct 23, 2011 · 1h 0m
The Power and the Glory
In this programme, Stephen Fry celebrates storytelling. It has been with us as long as language itself and as a species, we love to tell our stories. This desire to both entertain and explain has resulted in the flowering of language to describe every aspect of the human condition.

Details

Director: John-Paul Davidson
Status: Ended
First aired: Sep 25, 2011
Network: BBC Two

Time to finish

5 hrs

5 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

View on IMDb ↗

Cast

Stephen Fry

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