Stephen Fry

Stephen Fry Does The Knowledge Knowledge. The Google generation thinks it doesn’t need to carry much of it around in its head any more. Much has already been written about the internet changing the way we think and learn. But is knowledge less valuable than it used to be? This absorbing programme explores the concept of ‘knowledge’, drawing on a variety of diverse sources: quiz games, psychology, education, news, trivia shows, satellite navigation and comedy. Featuring cab drivers...Read Full Story

Stephen Fry traces the evolution of the mobile phone, from hefty executive bricks that required a separate briefcase to carry the battery, to the smartphones available today. There are more mobile phones in the world than there are people on the planet. Stephen Fry talks to the backroom boys who made it all possible, and here’s how the technology succeeded in ways that the geeks had not necessarily intended. For example, the engineers who designed the early texting facilities didn’t imagine...Read Full Story

Now that we have a definite return date for Bones on our plates, we’re afraid that the new addition has only whetted our appetite for further spoilers! Thank goodness, then, that Hart Hanson took to Twitter last night to deliver the news of yet another guest appearance.“Sssh!” Hanson cautions. “What’s that? Is that the sound of @stephenfry in the Colonies?  Can you feel it?” Stephen Fry, of course, plays Gordon Gordon Wyatt, the erudite psychologist who... Related Content: A Bones...Read Full Story

TV personality, activist, and social media comedian Stephen Fry has taken sides in the Paul Chambers “Twitter Joke Trial,” saying that British judges fundamentally don’t understand how Twitter works. Fry’s stance is more interesting for the larger question it raises about the rising role of social media and the generation gap between users of social networks and those asked to adjudicate them. Chambers was arrested for a tweet he sent about Robin Hood Airport in England in January 2010...Read Full Story

Paul Chambers appeared in court today to appeal against his conviction for sending a joke tweet threatening to blow England’s Robin Hood Airport “Sky High”, if the airport remained closed due to adverse weather. Whilst judgement has been reserved over whether to quash the conviction, one of his most vocal supporters, Stephen Fry , has reiterated his desire to support Chambers through his ordeal and says he will continue to fund his fight to overturn the conviction. Even since Chambers was...Read Full Story