Stephen Fry meets the brains behind the mobile phone.In this third episode, he looks at the discovery of text messaging. The engineers who designed the early texting facilities didn’t imagine...

'So Wrong It’s Right'Stephen Fry demonstrates, with the help of a Judge, a lexicographer, a computational linguist, five buffalo and a strawberry how wrong English can become right English, by...

In a fascinating collection of archive interviews with the celebrated writer, presenter and polymath, you can hear - in his own words - the beliefs and aspirations that have shaped him. The...

Stephen Fry hosts this programme on the joys of the English language - as heard on BBC Radio 4.The English language is chock-full of maritime metaphors: cock up, taken aback, chip on your...

Episode Four: Class. Stephen Fry explores the highways and byways of the English language in this programme, as heard on BBC Radio 4.Are we still 'bovvered' by the issue of class in the way we...

Contradiction is an addiction - from philosophical dialectic to the verification of scientific and mathematical hypotheses, and from religious controversy to traditional pantomime exchanges with...

Stephen Fry hosts this programme on the joys of the English language - as heard on BBC Radio 4.Featuring sick parrots and the cliché crisis that affected the writing of Flaubert, Joyce and...

Episode One: The Mouth. Stephen Fry explores the highways and byways of the English language in this programme, as heard on BBC Radio 4.Why is the human food processor and word processor in the...

The 'Qwerty' keyboard faces charges of conspiracy to obstruct the English language. But who was Mr Qwerty?

Stephen Fry explores the highways and byways of the English language in these four programmes, as heard on BBC Radio 4.‘Fry’s English Delight’ – talking about the mouth, its multiple...

Stephen Fry meets the brains behind the mobile phone.In this fourth episode, he traces the evolution of the mobile phone, from hefty executive bricks that required a separate briefcase to carry...

Speaking ProperIt may be that Elocution classes for children are being replaced with "Presentation Skills" courses for adults, but we still see effective communication as the key to success....

Stephen Fry presents this intriguing programme charting the history of knowledge, how technology changes our relationship with it, and how we know what we know.Knowledge. The Google generation...

'Hello!'Stephen Fry says goodbye for the time being with a programme about Hello, and how it came to be one of the world’s favourite words.As heard on Radio 4 during in August 2009....

Episode Three: Persuasion. Stephen Fry explores the highways and byways of the English language in this programme, as heard on BBC Radio 4.Lawyers, advertisers, salespeople and market traders...