Fry’s Planet Word
by Stephen Fry (BBC, 2011)
Across five one-hour episodes and with the prowling inquisitiveness of a deep-seated, rapacious word-lust unleashed, Stephen Fry — elegant, eloquent, ebullient — serves gallantly to inspire us with the origins and spread, the significance, the myriad uses, and above all the beauty, of language.
More Fool Me: A Memoir
by Stephen Fry (Penguin, 2014)
Stephen Fry, an engaging memoirist across two previous volumes, here becomes somewhat unfocussed in confronting his cocaine years. Of the ‘new’ material, almost half comprises diary entries from 1993, such ruderal perspective suggesting that present-day Stephen may have had his mind elsewhere.