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In the United Kingdom, it is broadcast as the same name of the programme, weekdays at 13:30, 18:30, 22:30 weekends at 13:15, 18:30 and 19:30, following the main news bulletins on BBC One. There is also a shorter bulletin simulcast on BBC Two , and the news channel (both internationally and UK) at 11:45 and on news channel (both internationally ...
The Adventure of English is a British television series on the history of the English language presented by Melvyn Bragg as well as a companion book, written by Bragg. The series ran in November 2003. [1] The series and the book are cast as an adventure story, or the biography of English as if it were a living being, covering the history of the ...
Legacies of Colonial English. Studies in Transported Dialects. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-17507-4. Fischer, Steven Roger (2004), History of Language, Reaktion Books, ISBN 978-1-86189-594-3. Crystal, David (2003). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language (Second ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press ...
BBC Sport is the sports division of the BBC, providing national sports coverage for BBC television, radio and online.The BBC holds the television and radio UK broadcasting rights to several sports, broadcasting the sport live or alongside flagship analysis programmes such as Match of the Day, Test Match Special, Ski Sunday and Today at Wimbledon.
Language portal; This category contains both accents and dialects specific to groups of speakers of the English language. General pronunciation issues that are not specific to a single dialect are categorized under the English phonology category.
Fry's Planet Word is a documentary series about language. Written and presented by Stephen Fry , five hour-long episodes were first broadcast in September and October 2011 on BBC Two and BBC HD . The series was produced and directed by John-Paul Davidson who worked with Fry on two other documentaries: Stephen Fry In America (2008) and Last ...
The English Dialect Dictionary (EDD) is the most comprehensive dictionary of English dialects ever published, compiled by the Yorkshire dialectologist Joseph Wright (1855–1930), with strong support by a team and his wife Elizabeth Mary Wright (1863–1958). [1] The time of dialect use covered is, by and large, the Late Modern English period ...
1 May – The BBC broadcasts the Rugby League Challenge Cup final for the first time. It did not broadcast the event again until 1952 and began annual coverage in 1958. 29 July-14 August – The London Olympic Games is televised and the BBC broadcasts extensive live coverage. 1949. No events.