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Watching: The Adventure of English

8.6•2003-11-06•1 Seasons

Season 1

Episode 2

Seasons

Episodes

Birth of a Language

English Goes Underground

The Battle for the Language of the Bible

This Earth, This Realm, This England

English in America

Speaking Proper

The Language of Empire

Many Tongues Called English, One World Language

Overview

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.