Stephen Fry Audio & Video

Stephen Fry hosts four programmes on the joys of the English language - as heard on BBC Radio 4.

In The Machine that Made Us Stephen Fry investigates the story of the most important machine ever invented. The printing press was the world's first piece of mass-production technology.

After a troubled childhood and adolescence, during which he was expelled from two schools and spent three months in prison for credit card fraud, he secured a place at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he studied English literature.

Think opera and you think Verdi. Verdi created some of the most beloved operas of all time, from the romantic tragedy of La traviata and Rigoletto to the Shakespearian dramas of Macbeth, Otello and Falstaff.

The second series of Stephen Fry's witty and incisive programs looking at the oddities of the English language. The three 30-minute episodes include: "So Wrong It's Right"--Fry examines how "wrong" English can become right English.

A conversation with the British comedian, author, actor and filmmaker.

In this historic event, Stephen Fry and other friends of Christopher Hitchens came together to celebrate the life and work of this great writer, iconoclast and debater.

Stephen Fry traces the evolution of the mobile phone, from hefty executive bricks that required a separate briefcase to carry the battery, to the smartphones available today....