The Adventure of English
2003, documentary
65 minutes
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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Birth of a Language
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English Goes Underground
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The Battle for the Language of the Bible
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This Earth, This Realm, This England
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English in America
2003-11-20
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Speaking Proper
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The Language of Empire
2003-11-27
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Many Tongues Called English, One World Language
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