Browse episode ratings trends for Fry's Planet Word. Simply click on the interactive rating graph to explore the best and worst of Fry's Planet Word's 5 episodes.
Best Episodes of Fry's Planet Word
Uses and Abuses
S1 Ep3
8.5
9th Oct 2011
This programme looks at the ways language is used and abused. While not everyone approves of 'bad' language, Stephen learns that swearing plays an important part in human communication the world over.
Spreading the Word
S1 Ep4
8.4
16th Oct 2011
In this programme, Stephen Fry explores 'the written word'. Writing is a great invention - making it possible to communicate across space and time. Without writing we would have no history and very little technology.
Worst Episodes of Fry's Planet Word
Identity
S1 Ep2
7.6
2nd Oct 2011
What is it that defines us? Stephen argues that above all, it is the way we speak. Be it a national language, a regional dialect or even class variation - we interpret and define ourselves through our language.
The Power and the Glory
S1 Ep5
8.1
23rd Oct 2011
In this programme, Stephen Fry celebrates storytelling. It has been with us as long as language itself and as a species, we love to tell our stories. This desire to both entertain and explain has resulted in the flowering of language to describe every aspect of the human condition.
Fry's Planet Word Episode Guide
Babel
S1 Ep1
8.4
25th Sep 2011
In this first episode, Stephen seeks to uncover the origins of human language and how and why we are the only species on the planet to have this gift.
Identity
S1 Ep2
7.6
2nd Oct 2011
What is it that defines us? Stephen argues that above all, it is the way we speak. Be it a national language, a regional dialect or even class variation - we interpret and define ourselves through our language.
Uses and Abuses
S1 Ep3
8.5
9th Oct 2011
This programme looks at the ways language is used and abused. While not everyone approves of 'bad' language, Stephen learns that swearing plays an important part in human communication the world over.
Spreading the Word
S1 Ep4
8.4
16th Oct 2011
In this programme, Stephen Fry explores 'the written word'. Writing is a great invention - making it possible to communicate across space and time. Without writing we would have no history and very little technology.
The Power and the Glory
S1 Ep5
8.1
23rd Oct 2011
In this programme, Stephen Fry celebrates storytelling. It has been with us as long as language itself and as a species, we love to tell our stories. This desire to both entertain and explain has resulted in the flowering of language to describe every aspect of the human condition.
The best rated episodes of Fry's Planet Word are:
Uses and Abuses S1E3 rated 8.5
Spreading the Word S1E4 rated 8.4
The lowest rated episodes of Fry's Planet Word are:
Identity S1E2 rated 7.6
The Power and the Glory S1E5 rated 8.1
The first episode of Fry's Planet Word aired on September 25, 2011.
The last episode of Fry's Planet Word aired on October 23, 2011.
