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Fry's Planet Word sees Stephen Fry finding out more about linguistic achievements and how our skills for the spoken word have changed. He dissects language in many of its guises.
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25 Sep, 2011
S1.E1Babel
In this first episode, Stephen seeks to uncover the origins of human language and how and why we are the only species on the planet to have this gift.
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02 Oct, 2011
S1.E2Identity
What is it that defines us? Stephen argues that above all, it is the way we speak. Be it a national language, a regional dialect or even class variation - we interpret and define ourselves through our language.
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