

Fry's English Delight: BBC Radio August 2019
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Dr Kate Rowley, Esther Rose Bevan and Stephen discuss British Sign Language for SIGNS OF THE TIMES tx Radio 4 27th August. Like all shows in the series, it doeswhat it says on the familiar purple wrapper. It’s Fry, English, and Delightful. Of all our plaudits we liked a listener saying ‘I wish Stephen Fry had been my English teacher.’
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Not that pedagogy is our aim. It’s surprise, plus joy. As Stephen remarked in our programme So Wrong It’s Right, ‘Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo’. A redundant repetition? A word processor would take issue with the sentence. Yet sentence it is.
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The fact that the English language, rather like Stephen, is a somewhat disobedient creature makes this the more fun. Take our show about the word ‘fuck’. Here's a disreputable edited version. Stephen has had his mind kidnapped by Derren Brown, danced a plain English tango with Charlotte Green and talked the language of colour with David Hockney.
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There’s more to come but if you can’t wait, go here for past programmes and samples, and here, where you’ll find some extended interviews taken from our nearly 40 programmes.
