ADVENTURE OF ENGLISH

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Format: Double DVD Video (PAL) What are PAL & NTSC?

Released: Sun 15 Jul 2007

Catalogue Number: SBS1077

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Description:
Melvyn Bragg travels through Britain to tell the story of how an insignificant German dialect, which only arrived in the country in the fifth century, evolved into a language which is now spoken and understood by more people than any other around the world.
We trace English from its humble roots to its flowering in the writing of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

English is a global language. Every day, in cities all around the world, English is used in encounters between people of different countries. It is estimated that well over a thousand million people around the world speak, or have a working understanding of, English.

This is its story. It's a story that really reads like an adventure of extraordinary survival, invasion, near extinction on more than one occasion, and astonishing flexibility.

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Actor: Melvin Bragg
Distributor: Madman Entertainment
Label: SBS
Feature:
- Episode 1: Birth of a Language
- Episode 2: English Goes Underground
- Episode 3: The Battle for the Language of the Bible
- Episode 4: This Earth, This Realm, This England
- Episode 5: English in America
- Episode 6: Speaking Proper
- Episode 7: The Language of Empire
- Episode 8: Many Tongues Called English, One World Language
Discs: 2
Format: PAL
Release Year: 2002
Running Time: 416 minutes