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The Adventure of English

Watch Series: The Adventure of English Released in (2003) produced by UK, The TV Series categorized in Documentary, and content rating 1h 5min with duration 65 min broadcasted as these networks ITV, Streamed at Putlocker & directed by Robert Bee, David Thomas. The Adventure of English is a British television series on the history of the English language presented by Melvyn Bragg as well as a companion book, also written by Bragg. The series ran in 2003.
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\nThe series and the book are cast as an adventure story, or the biography of English as if it were a living being, covering the history of the language from its modest beginnings around 500 AD as a minor Germanic dialect to its rise as a truly established global language.
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\nIn the television series, Bragg explains the origins and spelling of many words based on the times in which they were introduced into the growing language that would eventually become modern English.
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\nThe series and the book are cast as an adventure story, or the biography of English as if it were a living being, covering the history of the language from its modest beginnings around 500 AD as a minor Germanic dialect to its rise as a truly established global language.
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\nIn the television series, Bragg explains the origins and spelling of many words based on the times in which they were introduced into the growing language that would eventually become modern English.
Genre: Documentary
Actor: Melvyn Bragg, Michael Cronin, David Gwillim, Mark Saban, Gary Golding, Mark Heap, Pam Tonks, Joss Ackland, Sam Blewitt, Amerjit Deu
Directors: Robert Bee, David Thomas
Countries: UK
Languages: en, English,
Networks:
ITV,
Runtime: 65 min
Date Published: 2003-11-06
Year Released: 2003
Rating: 8.2 out of 10
Content Rating: 1h 5min
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 8
Views: 316
Quality: HD