The Adventure of English (Documentary, English)
Genres: History
Status: Ended
Premiered: 2003-11-06
Ended: 2003-11-27
Network: ITV1
Country: GB
Airs on: Monday
Runtime: 65 minutes
Melvyn Bragg travels through Britain to tell the story of how an insignificant German dialect, which only arrived in the country in the fifth century, evolved into a language which is now spoken and understood by more people than any other around the world. We trace English from its humble roots to its flowering in the writing of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.