The Adventure of English
TV Show| Title | The Adventure of English |
| User score | 8.2 |
| Release date | Nov 6, 2003 |
| Release date of last episode | Nov 27, 2003 |
| Genre | Documentary |
| Production country | GB |
| Series status | Ended |
| Seasons count | 1 (List of episodes) |
| Episodes count | 8 |
| Run time | 65 min. |
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.
Latest episodes
List of episodes
S1.E8 ∙ Many Tongues Called English, One World Language
Nov 27, 2003
S1.E7 ∙ The Language of Empire
Nov 27, 2003
S1.E6 ∙ Speaking Proper
Nov 20, 2003
S1.E5 ∙ English in America
Nov 20, 2003
S1.E4 ∙ This Earth, This Realm, This England
Nov 13, 2003
S1.E3 ∙ The Battle for the Language of the Bible
Nov 13, 2003
S1.E2 ∙ English Goes Underground
Nov 6, 2003
S1.E1 ∙ Birth of a Language
Nov 6, 2003
