Fry's English Delight
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{{Use British English|date=September 2012}}
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| format = Documentary
| runtime = 30 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| home_station = BBC Radio 4
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| starring = Stephen Fry
| creator = Testbed Productions www.testbed.co.uk
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| producer = Nick Baker, Sarah Cuddon, Merilyn Harris, Ian Gardhouse
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| first_aired = 25 August 2008
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| num_series = 10 (plus one winter special)
| num_episodes = 37
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Fry's English Delight is a BBC Radio 4 documentary series in which language enthusiast Stephen Fry explores various aspects of the English language.{{cite web| url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lv1k1| title=Fry's English Delight | publisher=BBC | access-date=10 September 2012}}
The title is an allusion to the British confectionery Fry's Turkish Delight.
Episode guide
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!Series!!Episode!!Title!!First broadcast | |||
| rowspan="3"|1 | 1 | Metaphor | 25 Aug 2008 |
| 2 | Quotation | 1 Sep 2008 | |
| 3 | Cliché | 8 Sep 2008 | |
| rowspan="3"|2 | 1 | So Wrong It's Right | 11 Aug 2009 |
| 2 | Speaking Proper | 18 Aug 2009 | |
| 3 | Hallo! | 25 Aug 2009 | |
| rowspan="4"|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 | |
| colspan="2"| Winter Special | Word Games | 28 Dec 2010 | |
| rowspan="4"|4 | 1 | The Mouth | 11 Jul 2011 |
| 2 | Brevity | 18 Jul 2011 | |
| 3 | Persuasion | 25 Jul 2011 | |
| 4 | Class | 1 Aug 2011 | |
| rowspan="4"|5 | 1 | Colourful Language{{cite web| url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01lv4ng| title=Fry's English Delight: Episode 1 | publisher=BBC | access-date=8 September 2012}} | 16 Aug 2012 |
| 2 | Intonation | 23 Aug 2012 | |
| 3 | Conversation | 30 Aug 2012 | |
| 4 | The Story of X | 6 Sep 2012 | |
| rowspan="4"|6{{cite web| url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lv1k1/episodes/guide#b0392gyt| title=Fry's English Delight: Season 6 Episode Guide | publisher=BBC | access-date=10 September 2013}} | 1 | Rhetoric Rehabilitated | 26 Aug 2013 |
| 2 | Spelling | 2 Sep 2013 | |
| 3 | Words without End | 9 Sep 2013 | |
| 4 | WTF | 16 Sep 2013 | |
| rowspan="4"|7 | 1 | Magic | 4 Aug 2014 |
| 2 | Capital Punishment | 11 Aug 2014 | |
| 3 | Reading Aloud | 18 Aug 2014 | |
| 4 | Plain English | 25 Aug 2014 | |
| rowspan="4"|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 | |
| rowspan="4"|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 | |
| rowspan="4"|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.{{cite web| url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lv1k1/products| title=Commercial Availability: Fry's English Delight | publisher=BBC | access-date=8 September 2012}} 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.
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| style="padding:0 8px;"| Series
! style="padding:0 8px;"| CD release date |
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| align="center"| Series 1
|rowspan="1" align="center" | {{Start date|2009|6|4|df=y}} |
| align="center"| Series 2
|align="center"| {{Start date|2010|3|29|df=y}} |
| align="center"| Series 3
|align="center"| {{Start date|2010|10|11|df=y}} |
| align="center"| Word Games
|align="center"| {{Start date|2011|7|7|df=y}} |
| align="center"| Series 4
|align="center"| {{Start date|2011|9|8|df=y}} |
| align="center"| Series 5
|align="center"| {{Start date|2012|9|20|df=y}} |
| align="center"| Series 6
|align="center"| {{Start date|2013|9|12|df=y}} |
| align="center"| Series 7
|align="center"| {{Start date|2014|9|12|df=y}} |
References
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