Fry's English Delight, Series 5

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Fry, Stephen

  • Titel: Fry's English Delight, Series 5 : The Complete Series / Stephen Fry. Narrator: Stephen Fry
  • Reihe: Fry's English Delight
  • Person(en): Fry, Stephen ; Fry, Stephen
  • Ausgabe: Unabridged
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Originalsprache: Englisch
  • Umfang: 1 online resource (2 audio files) : digital 01:50:54
  • Erschienen: London : AudioGO Ltd, 2012
  • ISBN/Preis: 9781471310980 (sound recording)
  • Schlagwörter: Nonfiction ; Language Arts ; Electronic books
  • Anmerkungen: Unabridged Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 51996 KB).

Inhalt: A fifth series from BBC Radio 4 in which Stephen Fry examines, with the help of experts, the highways and byways of the English language. In these four episodes he tells The Story of X: a letter holy and profane, sexy and chaste; discusses intonation, the "song" of English and how cadence affects meaning; muses on the art and craft of conversation - and whether true conversation can happen on TV and radio - and ponders the meaning of meaning, and the gap between brain and mouth that means language can never truly represent thought. In addition, he tells us why blue as a colour is a newish invention.