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An exploration of Canadian Remembrance Day history, customs, and traditions. Who are the people who offered their lives in war? Why do we remember them? How do we honour their memory?

Story of envy and spite set in an English school.

"You're telling me I'm being sensitive, and students looking for safe spaces that they're being hypersensitive.

The Greek myths are the greatest stories ever told, passed down through millennia and inspiring writers and artists as varied as Shakespeare, Michelangelo, James Joyce and Walt Disney.

Stephen Fry hosts four programmes on the joys of the English language - as heard on BBC Radio 4. Current Puns Why does our language groan with the weight of puns? What exactly is a pun?

A second BBC Radio 4 series of Stephen Fry's witty and incisive programmes looking at the oddities of the English language.

Stephen Fry explores the highways and byways of the English language in these four programmes, as heard on BBC Radio 4.

Stephen Fry explores the highways and byways of the English language in these programmes, as heard on BBC Radio 4.

A fifth series from BBC Radio 4 in which Stephen Fry examines, with the help of experts, the highways and byways of the English language.

Do men and women really say what they mean? Also Stephen investigates sex, domination, gender, power, and sex changes (as only he can).

Saviez-vous que le fils d'Apollon a failli brûler la terre en jouant avec le char solaire de son divin père ?

Speaking Proper - Stephen Fry looks at the changes in what we used to call 'elocution'.

British comedian and novelist Stephen Fry is fascinated with word games like crossword puzzles and Scrabble, so much that he believes them to be an integal part of our culture.

Stephen Fry investigates the phenomenon of gibberish - what it is, why we write and speak and sing it, and why we enjoy it so much.