We are going to delve down to the roots of the language and deduce its history - and in that one sentence we hear wor...

We see how England was ruled for three centuries after the Conquest by a French-speaking king and court which used La...

This is the story of how English became the battleground in the fight for men's souls. The medieval church establishm...

Visiting the England of Queen Elizabeth the First shows how naval enterprise and foreign trade brought scores of new ...

Following the English language on its journey overseas and tracing the story of how the language of the British Isles...

In eighteenth century Britain, the first English dictionary was produced. A cohort of grammarians imposed new rules o...

Travelling to parts of the former British Empire, we see how English met other cultures and other languages, and was ...

The concluding episode looks at how in the 20th century the rise of America as an industrial power has made it the dr...