The Adventure of English (2003)

The history of the English language presented by Melvyn Bragg; from its modest beginnings around 500 AD as a minor Germanic dialect to its rise as a global language.

The Adventure of English

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Seasons

Season 1

Season 1

Episodes season 1

  • 1x1

    Birth of a language

  • 1x2

    English goes underground

  • 1x3

    The battle for the language of the bible

  • 1x4

    This earth, this realm, this england

  • 1x5

    English in america

  • 1x6

    Speaking proper

  • 1x7

    The language of empire

  • 1x8

    Many tongues called english, one world language

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