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8.3/10 IMDb Running time 45–52 min per episode First episode date 2003 Language English Genres History, Special Interest | 7.8/10 Top Documentary Films No. of episodes 8 Final episode date November 2003 Program creator Melvyn Bragg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Original release 6 November – 30 November 2003 Similar The South Bank Show, Monarchy, Mind Your Language, Catastrophe, Infamous Assassinations | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Adventure of English is a British television series (ITV) on the history of the English language presented by Melvyn Bragg as well as a companion book, also written by Bragg. The series ran in 2003.
The series and the book are cast as an adventure story, or the biography of English as if it were a living being, covering the history of the language from its modest beginnings around 500 AD as a minor Germanic dialect to its rise as a truly established global language.
In the television series, Bragg explains the origins and spelling of many words based on the times in which they were introduced into the growing language that would eventually become modern English.
References
The Adventure of English Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA