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.