Fry's English Delight
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Fry's English Delight is a BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the...

 documentary series in which language enthusiast Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry
Stephen John Fry is an English actor, screenwriter, author, playwright, journalist, poet, comedian, television presenter and film director, and a director of Norwich City Football Club. He first came to attention in the 1981 Cambridge Footlights Revue presentation "The Cellar Tapes", which also...

 explores various aspects of the English language.

The title is a pun on the chocolate sweet Fry's Turkish Delight
Fry's Turkish Delight
Fry's Turkish Delight is a chocolate sweet made by Cadbury, and formerly by J. S. Fry & Sons. It was launched in 1914 and consists of a rose-flavoured Turkish delight surrounded by milk chocolate....

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Episode guide

SeriesEpisodeTitleFirst broadcast
1 1 Metaphor 25 Aug 2008
2 Quotation 1 Sep 2008
3 Cliché 8 Sep 2008
2 1 So Wrong It's Right 11 Aug 2009
2 Speaking Proper 18 Aug 2009
3 Hallo! 25 Aug 2009
3 1 The Trial of Qwerty
QWERTY
QWERTY is the most common modern-day keyboard layout. The name comes from the first six letters appearing in the topleft letter row of the keyboard, read left to right: Q-W-E-R-T-Y. The QWERTY design is based on a layout created for the Sholes and Glidden typewriter and sold to Remington in the...

11 Aug 2010
2 He Said, She Said 18 Aug 2010
3 Accentuate the Negative 25 Aug 2010
4 Future Conditional 1 Sep 2010
Winter Special Word Games 28 Dec 2010
4 1 The Mouth 11 Jul 2011
2 Brevity 18 Jul 2011
3 Persuasion 25 Jul 2011
4 Class 1 Aug 2011

Audio Books

Every episode of Fry's English Delight has been released on CD, and is also currently available in the form of audio downloads.
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Series CD release date
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