The Adventure of English: The BBC Docuseries

Melvyn Bragg's classic nine-part history of the English language — from a Germanic backwater through the Norman conquest, the Bible, empire and the global tongue a dictionary tried to pin down.

Playlist by @birth_of_dictionary

8 tracks, shared on Audicious.

1. The Adventure Of English - Episode 1 Birth of a Language - BBC Documentary — Robin C. Carter
2. The Adventure Of English - Episode 2 English Goes Underground - BBC Documentary — Robin C. Carter
3. The Adventure Of English - Episode 3 The Battle for the Language of the Bible - BBC Documentary — Robin C. Carter
4. The Adventure Of English - Episode 4 This Earth, This Realm, This England - BBC Documentary — Robin C. Carter
5. The Adventure Of English - Episode 5 English in America - BBC Documentary — Robin C. Carter
6. The Adventure Of English - Episode 6 Speaking Proper - BBC Documentary — Robin C. Carter
7. The Adventure Of English - Episode 7 The Language of Empire - BBC Documentary — Robin C. Carter
8. The Adventure Of English - Episode 8 Many Tongues Called English - BBC Documentary — Robin C. Carter