AuthorStephen Fry
NarratorStephen Fry
Duration1h 50m
CategoriesAdult Non-Fiction, British Radio Comedy Shows
Key StageA Level
PublisherAudio Go Ltd
VersionUnabridged
Stephen Fry explores the highways and byways of the English language in these four programmes, as heard on BBC Radio 4. The Trial of Qwerty - The "Qwerty" keyboard faces charges of conspiracy to obstruct the English language. But who was Mr. Qwerty? He Said, She Said - Do men and women really say what they mean? Also Stephen investigates sex, domination, gender, power, and sex changes (as only he can). Accentuate the Negative - We discover than "no" can mean "yes". And why you should never mess with Mr. In Between...Future Conditional - Stephen looks to the future with some predictions. Will robots be able to read novels? How much will our computers be able to understand us? Will English rule - or change? And then there's a question about a duck...
Stephen Fry On the Phone, Shrinking the Handset
Author: Stephen Fry
Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
SeriesStephen Fry on the Phone Series, Book 4
Duration 13m
Stephen Fry meets the brains behind the mobile phone. In this third episode, he looks at the discovery of text messaging. The engineers who designed the early texting facilities didn't imagine that anyone might want to reply. (Just in case, they added a short list of possible pre-set answers: yes, no and maybe). In the eighties, when network covera...
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Author: Stephen Fry
Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 27m
Stephen looks to the future with some predictions. Will robots be able to read novels? How much will our computers be able to understand us? Will English rule - or change? And then there's a question about a duck...
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The Trial of Qwerty: Fry's English Delight, Series 3
Author: Stephen Fry
Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 28m
The "Qwerty" keyboard faces charges of conspiracy to obstruct the English language. But who was Mr. Qwerty?
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Fry's English Delight Series 3: Accentuate the Negative
Author: Stephen Fry
Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 27m
We discover than "no" can mean "yes". And why you should never mess with Mr. In Between...
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Stephen Fry On the Phone, the Accidentaldiscoveroftext
Author: Stephen Fry
Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
SeriesStephen Fry on the Phone Series, Book 3
Duration 13m
Stephen Fry meets the brains behind the mobile phone. In this third episode, he looks at the discovery of text messaging. The engineers who designed the early texting facilities didn't imagine that anyone might want to reply. (Just in case, they added a short list of possible pre-set answers: yes, no and maybe). In the eighties, when network covera...
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Author: Stephen Fry
Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 15h 33m
No one loves and quarrels, desires and deceives as boldly and brilliantly as Greek gods and goddesses. They are like us, only more so - their actions and adventures scrawled across the heavens above. From the birth of the universe to the creation of humankind, Stephen Fry - who fell in love with these stories as a child - retells these myths for ou...
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Fry's English Delight Series 3: He Said, She Said
Author: Stephen Fry
Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 26m
Do men and women really say what they mean? Also Stephen investigates sex, domination, gender, power, and sex changes (as only he can).
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Author: Stephen Fry
Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 8h 28m
Stephen Fry's breathtakingly outrageous debut novel, by turns eccentric, shocking, brilliantly comic and achingly romantic. Adrian Healey is magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life; unprepared too for the afternoon in Salzburg when he will witness the savage murder of a Hungarian violinist; unprepared to learn about the Mendax devi...
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Author: Stephen Fry
Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 9h 49m
Stephen Fry invites readers to take a glimpse at his life story in the unputdownable More Fool Me. 'Oh dear I am an arse. I expect there'll be what I believe is called an "intervention" soon. I keep picturing it. All my friends bearing down on me and me denying everything until my pockets are emptied. Oh the shame' In his early thirties, Stephen Fr...
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Stephen Fry On the Phone, the Chips That Smartphones Smart
Author: Stephen Fry
Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
SeriesStephen Fry on the Phone Series, Book 5
Duration 13m
Stephen Fry meets the brains behind the mobile phone. Today, 85% of the silicon chips inside all mobile phones are designed by one Cambridge-based company, ARM. Two computer engineers needed some micro-processors but didn't like what they saw and decided to make their own. Strapped for cash, they designed chips that were small, cheap and exceptiona...
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