The Adventure of English

Season 1 Episode 1: Birth of a Language

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.

Genre:

Documentary

Seasons:

1

Episodes:

8

Cast:

Melvyn Bragg

Quality:

HD

Duration:

65 min

First Air:

2003

Rating:

8.6