The Adventure of English
2003
📺 1 Season
🎬 8 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 65 min/episode
Documentary
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.
Seasons
Season 1
We are going to delve down to the roots of the language and deduce its history - and in that one sentence we hear words from four different sources; delve from Dark Age Anglo-Saxon, root from Danish invaders, language from medieval French, and deduce from Renaissance Latin; four of the main - but not all - contributors to the richness of modern English.
Cast
Network
ITV1