Fry's Planet Word
Catch up TV on Fry's Planet Word. Watch the latest and all other episodes of Fry's Planet Word now online, broadcast on ABC1. Catch up on your favorite ABC1 TV show: Fry's Planet Word. Replay tv on its best! Stephen Fry travels the globe, taking viewers on a journey through the thousands of years since man first mastered speech to the cyber world of today with its HTML, codes and texting.
Rating:2.8 of 5Total number of episodes:12
Last broadcast:20/10/2014 at 00:40
Last broadcast:20/10/2014 at 00:40


Series 1 Episode 5 The Power And the Glory (Final)
Expired 3.0 104 x
Storytelling has been with us as long as language itself. In this episode Stephen uncovers why certain words can make us laugh, cry or tear our hair out and discovers what has made a good story throughout history.

Series 1 Episode 4 Spreading The Word
Expired 3.0 67 x
Stephen Fry explores 'The Written Word'. Writing is our greatest invention - making it possible to communicate across space and time. Without writing we would have no history, and very little technology.

Series 1 Episode 3 Uses And Abuses
Expired 3.0 185 x
This episode looks at the ways language is used and abused. While not everyone approves of 'bad' language, host Stephen Fry learns that swearing plays an important part in human communication all over the world.September 2014
59:03


Series 1 Episode 2 Identity
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Stephen Fry learns how TV soaps are keeping the Irish language alive and how the 6000 plus languages in the world are threatened with linguicide.

Series 1 Episode 1 Babel
Expired 3.0 147 x
Stephen Fry travels the globe, taking viewers on a journey through the thousands of years since man first mastered speech to the cyber world of today with its HTML, codes and texting.November 2013



Episode 5 The Power And the Glory (Final)
3.0 121 x
Storytelling has been with us as long as language itself. In this episode Stephen uncovers why certain words can make us laugh, cry or tear our hair out and discovers through history what has made a good story.October 2013



Episode 4 Spreading The Word
3.0 110 x
Stephen Fry explores 'The Written Word'. Writing is our greatest invention - making it possible to communicate across space and time. Without writing we would have no history, and very little technology.

Episode 3 Uses And Abuses
3.0 91 x
This episode looks at the ways language is used and abused. While not everyone approves of 'bad' language, host Stephen Fry learns that swearing plays an important part in human communication all over the world.

Episode 3 Uses And Abuses
3.0 167 x
This episode looks at the ways language is used and abused. While not everyone approves of 'bad' language, host Stephen Fry learns that swearing plays an important part in human communication all over the world.

Episode 2 Identity
3.0 91 x
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