Fry's English Delight

Fry's English Delight is a BBC Radio 4 documentary series in which language enthusiast Stephen Fry explores various aspects of the English language.^[1]

Fry's English Delight

Genre	Documentary
Running time	30 minutes
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Language(s)	English
Home station	BBC Radio 4
Starring	Stephen Fry
Created by	Testbed Productions www.testbed.co.uk
Produced by	Nick Baker, Sarah Cuddon, Merilyn Harris, Ian Gardhouse
Original release	25 August 2008
No. of series	10 (plus one winter special)
No. of episodes	37
Website	Fry's English Delight

The title is an allusion to the British confectionery Fry's Turkish Delight.

Episode guide

Series	Episode	Title	First broadcast
1	1	Metaphor	25 Aug 2008
	2	Quotation	1 Sep 2008
	3	Cliché	8 Sep 2008
2	1	So Wrong It's Right	11 Aug 2009
	2	Speaking Proper	18 Aug 2009
	3	Hallo!	25 Aug 2009
3	1	The Trial of Qwerty	11 Aug 2010
	2	He Said, She Said	18 Aug 2010
	3	Accentuate the Negative	25 Aug 2010
	4	Future Conditional	1 Sep 2010
Winter Special		Word Games	28 Dec 2010
4	1	The Mouth	11 Jul 2011
	2	Brevity	18 Jul 2011
	3	Persuasion	25 Jul 2011
	4	Class	1 Aug 2011
5	1	Colourful Language[2]	16 Aug 2012
	2	Intonation	23 Aug 2012
	3	Conversation	30 Aug 2012
	4	The Story of X	6 Sep 2012
6[3]	1	Rhetoric Rehabilitated	26 Aug 2013
	2	Spelling	2 Sep 2013
	3	Words without End	9 Sep 2013
	4	WTF	16 Sep 2013
7	1	Magic	4 Aug 2014
	2	Capital Punishment	11 Aug 2014
	3	Reading Aloud	18 Aug 2014
	4	Plain English	25 Aug 2014
8	1	Words Fail Me	12 Aug 2015
	2	Talking about the Weather	18 Aug 2015
	3	Do You Promise Not to Tell?	25 Aug 2015
	4	English Plus One	1 Sep 2015
9	1	Let's Get Physical	5 Feb 2017
	2	The Story of Oh!	12 Feb 2017
	3	English Upside Down	19 Feb 2017
	4	That Way Madness Lies	26 Feb 2017
10	1	Order!	6 Aug 2019
	2	You Must Remember This	13 Aug 2019
	3	The Doolittle Factor	20 Aug 2019
	4	Signs of the Times	27 Aug 2019

Audiobooks

Up to series 7, every episode of Fry's English Delight has been released on CD and is also currently available in the form of audio downloads.^[4] The first series also contains the 2007 documentary Current Puns presented by Fry on Radio 4 on 26 December 2007. The second series contains the 2006 documentary The Joy of Gibberish, presented by Fry on Radio 4 on 3 January 2006.

Series	CD release date
Series 1	4 June 2009 (2009-06-04)
Series 2	29 March 2010 (2010-03-29)
Series 3	11 October 2010 (2010-10-11)
Word Games	7 July 2011 (2011-07-07)
Series 4	8 September 2011 (2011-09-08)
Series 5	20 September 2012 (2012-09-20)
Series 6	12 September 2013 (2013-09-12)
Series 7	12 September 2014 (2014-09-12)