We know a lot about words. Just not a great deal about where they come from, and how. So Fry's theme for the opening week was what language is, and why we have it, and how it gets into us. How ...

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.

A brain teaser is a short, playful puzzle designed to challenge your mind and elicit a smile. It could be a riddle, a tricky question, a visual illusion, or a logic twist that nudges you to think ...

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I know we live in an age when people are very quick to take offence, but this is ridiculous. A total of 293 people took the trouble to complain to the BBC about Stephen Fry's language at the Bafta ...