"Fry's Planet Word" Babel (2011)

Director:

John-Paul Davidson

Writer:

Stephen Fry (written by)

TV Series:

"Fry's Planet Word" (2011)

Original Air Date:

25 September 2011 (Season 1, Episode 1)

Genre:

Documentary

Plot:

Cast

Stephen Fry	...	Himself - Presenter
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jean Berko Gleason	...	Herself
Zaha Bustami	...	Herself - Interpreter, United Nations
Joe Devlin	...	Himself - Wellcome Trust
Wolfgang Enard	...	Himself - Max Planck Institute
Wolfgang Klein	...	Himself - Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Robert McCrum	...	Himself
Steven Pinker	...	Himself
Cathy Price	...	Herself - Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging
Deb Roy	...	Himself - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
d'Armond Speers	...	Himself - Klingon Language Institute
Michael Tomasello	...	Himself - Max Planck Institute
Hugh Laurie	...	Various (archive footage) (uncredited)

Directed by
John-Paul Davidson		(as John Paul Davidson)

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Stephen Fry		written by

Produced by
Mark Bell	....	executive producer: BBC
Gina Carter	....	executive producer
John-Paul Davidson	....	series producer (as John Paul Davidson)
Annie Macnee	....	associate producer
Lucy Wallace	....	associate producer

Original Music by
Debbie Wiseman

Cinematography by
Simon French		(director of photography) (as Simon Ffrench)

Film Editing by
Masahiro Hirakubo

Production Management
Lucy Tate	....	production manager

Sound Department
Pietro Dalmasso	....	dubbing mixer
Sean O'Neil	....	sound recordist
Adam Toy	....	sound recordist

Visual Effects by
Amber Ducker	....	vfx production coordinator
Katrin Geilhausen	....	visual effects artist
Rob Harvey	....	visual effects supervisor
Michelle Martin	....	visual effects producer
Tim Zaccheo	....	visual effects supervisor

Editorial Department
Enge Gray	....	colorist
David Grewal	....	on-line editor

Music Department
Steve Price	....	music engineer/mixer

Other crew
Andrew Georgiou	....	production accountant
Sara Ramsden	....	script consultant
Zoë Rocha	....	head of production (as Zoe Rocha)

Thanks
Tony Barrett	....	thanks (as Father Tony Barrett)
Louis Davidson	....	thanks
Arika Okrent	....	thanks

Special Effects

• Lola

Other Companies

• BBC Motion Gallery  thanks
• Eugene O'Neill Theatre Company  thanks (as The Eugene O'Neill Theatre)
• Unilever Archives  thanks

Goofs:

Anachronisms: In the beginning of the re-enactment of the feral child story, not only is the boy wearing clothes, but modern underwear as well.

Movie Connections:

References "House M.D." (2004)