Fry's English Delight is a BBC Radio 4 documentary series in which language enthusiast Stephen Fry explores various aspects of the English language.
The title is an allusion to the British confectionery Fry's Turkish Delight.
Episode guide SeriesEpisodeTitleFirst broadcast11Metaphor25 Aug 20082Quotation1 Sep 20083Cliché8 Sep 200821So Wrong It's Right11 Aug 20092Speaking Proper18 Aug 20093Hallo!25 Aug 200931The Trial of Qwerty11 Aug 20102He Said, She Said18 Aug 20103Accentuate the Negative25 Aug 20104Future Conditional1 Sep 2010 Winter SpecialWord Games28 Dec 201041The Mouth11 Jul 20112Brevity18 Jul 20113Persuasion25 Jul 20114Class1 Aug 201151Colourful Language16 Aug 20122Intonation23 Aug 20123Conversation30 Aug 20124The Story of X6 Sep 201261Rhetoric Rehabilitated26 Aug 20132Spelling2 Sep 20133Words without End9 Sep 20134WTF16 Sep 201371Magic4 Aug 20142Capital Punishment11 Aug 20143Reading Aloud18 Aug 20144Plain English25 Aug 201481Words Fail Me12 Aug 20152Talking about the Weather18 Aug 20153Do You Promise Not to Tell?25 Aug 20154English Plus One1 Sep 201591Let's Get Physical5 Feb 20172The Story of Oh!12 Feb 20173English Upside Down19 Feb 20174That Way Madness Lies26 Feb 2017101Order!6 Aug 20192You Must Remember This13 Aug 20193The Doolittle Factor20 Aug 20194Signs of the Times27 Aug 2019
Audiobooks Up to series 7, every episode of Fry's English Delight has been released on CD and is also currently available in the form of audio downloads. The first series also contains the 2007 documentary Current Puns presented by Fry on Radio 4 on 26 December 2007. The second series contains the 2006 documentary The Joy of Gibberish, presented by Fry on Radio 4 on 3 January 2006.
Series CD release date Series 1 Series 2 Series 3 Word Games Series 4 Series 5 Series 6 Series 7
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