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The Story of English

  • 1986-1986
  • 1 season
  • PBS
  • Documentary

A work of profound scholarship and powerful storytelling from host Robert MacNeil, this classic nine-part PBS series remains one of the great narratives of linguistic studies-and is now available on digitally re-mastered, menu-driven DVD. Steeped in history, geography, sociology, and political drama, The Story of English has little to do with dictionaries, official documents, or highbrow.

Actor

20 Credits
Robert MacNeil
Robert MacNeil
Self - Presenter
J.L. Dillard
Self - Creole Linguist, Self - Plantation Creole Linguist
Alistair Cooke
Self - Writer and Broadcaster
Siaka Stevens
Self - President, Sierra Leone, Self - President, Sierra Leone, 1971-85
Michael Hordern
Michael Hordern
Bible Readings, King Lear, Prospero, Self
Randolph Quirk
Self - President, British Academy
Benjamin Bligen
Self - Speaker of Gullah English
John Henry
Self - Irish Seanchaí (Storyteller)
Christopher Page
Self - Old English Reader
George Bonner
Self - Market Stall Holder
Chris Rose
Self - Agriculturist, Papua New Guinea
Stanley Robertson
Self - Scottish Storyteller
Penny Downie
Penny Downie
Self, Titania
Seamus Heaney
Self - Poet
Robert Burchfield
Self - Editor, Oxford English Dictionary
Janie Hunter
Self - Speaker of Gullah English
Jack Chambers
Self - Linguist
The Medieval Players
Self - Actors in 'Mankind'
Willie Ross
Self - Burns Society
Bob Barltrop
Self - Local Historian and Author of 'The Muvver Tongue'
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