Robert Macneil on how English is being adopted by the world as the most important language to learn, he traces the use of...
A personal enquiry into language, with Jonathan Miller. From infancy, language growth is aston...
Series exploring reading and writing poetry in all its diversity. The children are challenged to write a free verse p...
First of 3 documentaries tracing the history of the Scots tongue from its origins through to its heyday as the language of court, lite...
Billy KAY examines the roots of prejudice against Lowland Scots from the 1700s onwards in interviews with academics and native ...
When the brain is damaged through accident or injury, language can go tragically wrong. Meeting and talkin...
Four children are taken to Devon for a crash course in poetry. Sunesh, Corey, Aziza and Frandella must write a free vers...
Robert Macneil presents the second programme in this series tracing the history of the English language from its roots to present...
This programme centres on the English of Shakespeare and the King James Bible and its spread into the New World via Elizabethan expl...
Four children go on a week-long course in poetry writing. With help from poet Paul Lyalls, they must write their ...
The sign language of deaf people is as complex as any spoken language and reveals something essential abou...
The final programme in the series in which Billy KAY traces the development of the Scots language.
Walking along the banks of the River Cover and exploring the historic ruins of Wensleydale, the Rev Kate Bottley speaks frankly about...
Jonathan Miller explores the elements that make language more than just strings of words - such a...
A series exploring reading and writing poetry in all its diversity. Ben, Carys, Abigail and Leon are challe...
In fourth of the series Robert Macneil looks at the development of Lowlands Scots and its spread to Ireland and America. He a...
This programme looks at the influence of African-American's on world English and traces language from West Africa to plantations of ...
This programme traces development of American English from the War of Independence to World War 1. It looks at influence of I...
The fourth documentary in a series on Robert Burns, narrated by David Daiches.
(Contains Adult Content) Robert Macneil explores the origins of the Cockney dialect and the influence of the ''flash talk'' of th...
Robert Macneil explores troubled story of Irish-English in North and South Ireland Gaelic speaking Irish through famine, conflict...
Film looks at former British colonies Papua New Guinea, Sierra Leone, Barbados, Jamaica and India as well as the language o...
See how your personal memories can form the basis of a short story.
What are the '2 sides' of you? Caroline Bird shows a group of young people how to use it as ...
Caroline Bird leads a poetry workshop inspired by 'happiness'
In the Great Hall of Oxfordshire's Broughton Castle, writer and teacher Kate Clanchy leads a ...
Dame Judy Dench reads Thomas Hardy's poem, A Trampwoman's Tragedy.
After receiving a signal of rhyme activity from Rhyme Recruits in Salford, the team blast off to join them.
Author Michael Morpurgo talks to a group of students about the inspiration for his book Private Peaceful.
Author Michael Morpurgo discusses his book War Horse and his process for drafting his stories.
The Rhyme Rocket passes a poem by Stewart Henderson and beams aboard an out-of-this-world performer, Grace Savage.
Michael Rosen has fun with words and sounds to create a beat within a poem.
James Berry reads his poem "Bits of Early Days" and Sunesh reveals what he thought of it.
After receiving a signal of rhyme activity from children in Birmingham the team blast off on a journey through the universe of words to join them.
When they receive a signal from Rhyme Recruits about to perform a poem in Glasgow, the crew blast off to join them.
After receiving a signal of rhyme activity from children in Washington, the crew blast off to join them.
The team celebrate Rabbie Burns in true Scottish style, complete with bag-piping like you will have never seen before, and a 'disgusting' taste test.
Michael Rosen tells us how to use a word at the start and the end of a poem.
Simon Armitage examines the speeches of one of Britain's best known orators.
After receiving a signal from Rhyme Recruits about to perform a poem in Armagh, the crew blast off to join them.
First Officer Ditty and Professor Poet have decided to surprise Commander Rhyme-a-Lot by painting the rhyme rocket in a new colour scheme.
Kirsten O'Brien is in Birmingham testing the public on how many times they use the word 'like'.
Ten well-known personalities share their favourite Scots word and celebrate the warmth, wit and grit of the Scots language. Written by Sanjeev K...
Freda the flat-footed fairy is unhappy, and the animals find out what never to do with a potty.
A tiger sneezes and loses all of his stripes.
The giant has left his bath running and the worms are let loose in the kitchen bin.
Featuring plastic bags that grow on trees and the worms are grooving on down.
Featuring a kangaroo, a naughty bird and a dragon eating rhyme cakes, not to mention those cheeky worms.
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