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.
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Episode: 1 Birth of a Language
Episode: 2 English Goes Underground
Episode: 3 The Battle for the Language of the Bible
Episode: 4 This Earth, This Realm, This England
Episode: 5 English in America
Episode: 6 Speaking Proper
Episode: 7 The Language of Empire
Episode: 8 Many Tongues Called English, One World Language
