The Story of English 1986

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-dri...

All Titles	show all 2 titles The Story of English The Story of English
Director	Vivian Ducat William Cran Howard Reid show all 6 directors John Pett Peter Dale David South
Artists	Robert MacNeil as Self - Presenter J.L. Dillard as Self - Creole Linguist Alistair Cooke as Self - Writer and Broadcaster show all 115 artists Siaka Stevens as Self - President, Sierra Leone Michael Hordern as Bible Readings George Bonner as Self - Market Stall Holder Chris Rose as Self - Agriculturist, Papua New Guinea John Henry as Self - Irish Seanchaí (Storyteller) Christopher Page as Self - Old English Reader Benjamin Bligen as Self - Speaker of Gullah English Stanley Robertson as Self - Scottish Storyteller Randolph Quirk as Self - President, British Academy Penny Downie as Self - Self Seamus Heaney as Self - Poet Bob Barltrop as Self - Local Historian and Author of 'The Muvver Tongue' Willie Ross as Self - Burns Society Jack Chambers as Self - Linguist Janie Hunter as Self - Speaker of Gullah English The Medieval Players as Self - Actors in 'Mankind' Robert Burchfield as Self - Editor, Oxford English Dictionary Richard Bebb as Self - Chaucer Reader Braj Kachru as Self - University of Illinois Pat Linney as English Poet Clifford Paul as Self - Traffic Supervisor, St Lawrence Seaway Jim Wolveridge as Self - East End Bookseller and Author of 'The Muvver Tongue' Gerald Maitland-Carew as Self - Thirlestane Castle Mary Tamm as Self - Chaucer Reader John Barton as Self - Royal Shakespeare Director Fraser Aitken as Self - Minister of Scottish Kirk, Girvan Martha DeWeese as Self - Middleton Plantation John Wells as Self - Phonetician and Linguist Sean Dufrayner as English Linguist P. Lal as Self - Writers' Workshop, Calcutta Eldred Jones as Self - Compiler of Krio-English Dictionary Ron Carroll as Self - Lock-Master, St Lawrence Seaway Henry Neilson as Self - Gold Prospector Mary Sheppard as Self - Middleton Plantation Martin Sivener as Self - Friesian Speaker Frank White as Self - Horse Trainer, Ballymena Tommy Hosford as Self - Master Brewer, Murphy's Brewer Michael Garfield as Self - Sugar Cane Cutter John Bernard as Self - Australian Linguist Stanley Ellis as Self - Linguist Jean la Rue as Self - Breton Speaker Rory O'Connor as Self - Murphy's Brewery Sammy White as Self - Horse Trainer, Ballymena Dave Elliot as Self - Gold Prospector Richard Stoney as Self - Estate Owner Winston Daniel as Self - Sugar Cane Cutter George Hawker as Self - Bungaree Sheep Station Farmer Peter Hall as Self - Director of National Theatre William Safire as Self - New York Times Albert Murray as Self - Jazz Historian Ronnie Davies as Self - Welsh Speaker Joan Hawker as Self - Bungaree Sheep Station Farmer George Shauss as Self - Cowboy Eddie Edghill as Self - Sugar Plantation Owner Henry Conyngham as Self - Lord Henry, Earl of Mount Charles Alec Miller as Self - Farmer, Ballymena as Self Garry Hynes as Self - Director, 'The Playboy of the Western World' Jean Bell as Self - Cowboy Jim Baker as Self - Plimoth Plantation Museum Eluned Phillips as Self - Writer and Twice Winner of National Eisteddfod of Wales Rob Brown as Self - Yacht Skipper Horace Williams as Self - Shoeshine Man John Braidwood as Self - Dictionary of Ulster English Mervyn Morris as Self - Creole Linguist Barrie Humphries as Dame Edna Everage David Norris as Self - Joyce Scholar, Trinity College, Dublin Manny Octaviano as Self - Italian American Edwin George as Self - West Country Forest Ranger Hubert Devonish as Self - Creole Linguist Len Travers as Self - Plimoth Plantation Museum John Fott as Self - University of Pennsylvania Tom Ammiano as Self - Gay Stand-Up Comedian as Self - Editor, Ms Magazine Leo Rosten as Self - Writer and Yiddish Historian Wilson Goode as Self - Mayor of Philadelphia Irwin Bielby as Self - Yorkshire Dialect Speaker Clifford Arbon as Self - East Anglian Dialect Speaker Alan Morris as Self - Mojo Advertising Agency Edward Brathwaite as Self - Jamaican Poet Willard Watson as Self - Appalachian Farmer and Maker of Moonshine Seamus Deane as Self - Writer Tom Shippey as Self - Scholar of Middle and Old English Literature Harry Marks as Self - Graphic Designer Reg Sillock as Self - East Anglian Dialect Speaker Peter Martin as Self - Sergeant, New York Police Desmond Johnson as Self - Dub Poet Manny Lenkovsky as Self - Jewish New York Furrier Cratis Williams as Self - Appalachian Historian Constance Clayton as Self - Philadelphia Board of Education Kathy Lette as Self - Author Carl Rosendahl as Self - Computer Animator Ray Hicks as Self - Appalachian Farmer Mohammed Ajeeb as Self - Mayor of Bradford Paddy Molloy as Self - IRA Republican Activist Arthur Spiers as Self - Linguist Michael Clanchy as Self - Scholar of Old English Kuan Yew Lee as Self - Prime Minister, Singapore Ananda Lal as Self - Teacher of Indian English Rosie Hicks as Self - Appalachian Farmer Graham Williams as Self - Hand-Printer B.K. Yap as Self - Shipyard Manager Wayne Moroni as Self - Truck Driver Riva Moroni as Self - Truck Driver Lee Sow Ling as Self - English Language Consultant, The Straits Times John MacDonald as Self - Scots Gaelic Speaker, Barra Kate Flower as Self - Presenter, 'Follow Me' Colin MacInnes as Self - Priest and Scots Gaelic Speaker, Barra H.C. Narang as Self - Nehru University, Delhi John Northcote as Self - Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Regiment Calum Keane as Self - Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Regiment Barry Humphries as Self
Released	22 Sep 1986
Links	IMDb

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