The Adventure of English

Series · 2003 TMDB 8.6 5 votes

The history of the English language presented by Melvyn Bragg; from its modest beginnings around 500 AD as a minor Germanic dialect to its rise as a global language.

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Premiere date 2003-11-06

Countries United Kingdom

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