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Fry's Planet Word
2011 · TV series · documentary · 59 min episodes · 1 season
Created by Stephen Fry
Fry's Planet Word sees Stephen Fry finding out more about linguistic achievements and how our skills for the spoken word have changed. He dissects language in many of its guises.
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he's not actually accomplished anything worth being smug about... And Hugh Laurie was always the talent in their double-act.
Stephen Fry has accomplished plenty, and (not to talk the man down) I suspect has done a lot more that will stand the test of time than Laurie has. A few to start:
Last Chance To See (documentary about endangered animals)
Stephen Fry in America
The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive
Fry's Planet Word
I suspect they will all be of more interest to historians in 100 years time than multiple seasons of House.
In the third episode of Fry's Planet Word (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fry%27s_Planet_Word#Uses_and_Abuses) an experiment is conducted that illustrates this effect.