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This BBC Radio 4
series is written and presented by Bill Bryson and based on his
best-selling book of the same name. In it he romps through the
history of Britain to reveal how English became such an
infuriatingly complex - but ultimately world-beating - language.
The subject areas covered in the course of the programme (which
was originally broadcast in 6 episodes) include the arrival of
the Angles and the Saxons, the rules which brought order to a
disorderly language, the million and one ways to have fun with
the English language, the struggle with phrasal verbs (and the
way things often get lost in the translation) and the future of
English - does Estuary English Rule OK ?
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