My Word!

Last Edited: 13-May-2012 A Global British Comedy Collaborative document. Edited by John Lucas

Table of Contents

Pilot Series 1 (1957) Series 2 (1957)   Series 18 (1968)    Series 19 (1968-69)  

Series 24 (1973) Series 25 (1974) Series 26 (1975) Series 27 (1976) Series 28 (1977)

Series 29 (1978) Series 30 (1979) Series 31 (1980) Series 32 (1981-2) Series 33 (1982-3)

Series 34 (1983-4) Series 35 (1984-5) Series 36 (1985-86) Series 37 (1987)

Collateral Material 32

The Original Godfathers. 32

The Tall Guy. 32

 

My Word ran from 1956 to 1990. “Experimental” episodes were broadcast on the Midlands Service in June 1956. The first broadcast on the Home Service occurred on Tuesday, January 2, 1957[1] with chairman John Arlott, Frank Muir and Isobel Barnett vs. Nancy Spain and Denis Norden.

 

Panelists:

AF = Antonia Fraser

AM = Alfred Marks

ASJ = Anne Scott-James

BT = Barry Took

DN = Denis Norden

DP = Dilys Powell (1901-1995)

FM = Frank Muir (1920-1998)

IB = Isobel Barnett

IT = Irene Thomas

JW = John Wells

KW = Katherine Whitehorn

NS = Nancy Spain

Chairpersons (in order of appearance):

JA = John Arlott [1956-1957 only]

JL = Jack Longland (b.1905-d.1993)

JJN = John Julius Norwich

AF = Antonia Fraser

MOD = Michael O’Donnell

Compilers:

EJM = Edward J. Mason (not credited)

JL = Jack Longland

PM = Peter Moore

Producers:

TS = Tony Shryane

BJ = Bobby Jaye

PA = Pete Atkin

Explanation of dating and ordering: We do not have an official or authoritative episode list to serve as a guide for dating individual episodes. We have used a variety of clues to produce a draft ordering of the episodes:

·         We have used the copies of the Radio Times in Australiian and American libraries to define the series dates, lengths and participants.

·         Occasionally we are able to precisely date an individual show based on references to events chronicled elsewhere. Some of these references are Frank’s purchase of a villa in Corsica, Frank’s 25th wedding anniversary, and currency decimalisation. Sometimes a special venue or a participant substitution also provides a date.

·         A fairly well-defined pattern of alternating Denis or Frank going first suggests where series boundaries or missing episodes occur in the recordings available.

·         The repeat broadcast orders in Australia, New Zealand, and the US have been used as circumstantial evidence of the roder of original broadcasts. This is a large assumption – we know there are vagaries in the BBC Transcription Service order as originally distributed, in the US distribution channel (WFMT FineArts), and in the broadcast stations in Australia and the US.

 

THIS IS A DRAFT ORDERING OF EPISODES.

Corrections and suggestions are welcomed. Research by John Lucas, Martin Hood and Sandy Finlayson. Additional research, corrections and comments have been provided by Alexander Lucas, Jean-Joseph Cote, and Roger Bickerton.

 

Date

Episode

Program Details

Cast

Parameters

Location

S

 

 

06-Jun-1956

Pilot

Broadcast on the Midland Home Service, 7-7:30 pm

 

 

 

 

 

 

01-Jan-1957

Series 1 (1957)

S01e01

An edited repeat of the pilot episode

 

8-8:30 pm, HS

 

 

 

 

08-Jan-1957

S01e02

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

15-Jan-1957

S01e03

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

22-Jan-1957

S01e04

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

29-Jan-1957

S01e05

 

 

8:40-9 pm, 20 min only

 

 

 

 

05-Feb-1957

S01e06

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12-Feb-1957

S01e07

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

19-Feb-1957

S01e08

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

05-Aug-1957

Series 2 (1957)

S02e01

 

 

7-7:30 pm, HS

 

 

 

 

12-Aug-1957

S02e02

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

19-Aug-1957

S02e03

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

26-Aug-1957

S02e04

 

 

8:05-8:25 pm, 2o min only

 

 

 

 

02-Sep-1957

S02e05

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

09-Sep-1957

S02e06

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

04-Oct-1957

S02e07

 

 

9:45-10:15 pm

 

 

 

 

11-Oct-1957

S02e08

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

18-Oct-1957

S02e09

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

25-Oct-1957

S02e10

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

01-Jul-1962

S10e01

100th Edition -   "Seated one day at the altar" (Greg Linden)

 

 

 

 

 

 

08-Jul-1962

S10e02

"With all her faults, I love her still" (Greg Linden)

 

 

 

 

 

 

15-Jul-1962

S10e03

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

22-Jul-1962

S10e04

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

29-Jul-1962

S10e05

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

05-Aug-1962

S10e06

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12-Aug-1962

S10e07

"Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner" (Greg Linden)

 

 

 

 

 

 

19-Aug-1962

S10e08

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

26-Aug-1962

S10e09

"The age of chivalry is gone" (Greg Linden)

 

 

 

 

 

 

1962-1964

?

ABC #101

·          Vocabularies: marginalia, roboright, Erse, paravane

·          Verse: Gray’s “…Distant view of Eton College”, Gilbert Bab Ballads, Milton “Lysidas”, Shakespeare “Richard II”

·          Origins and derivations: put the kibosh on, lay by the heels, Baedecker rains, cast sheep’s eyes

·          “Two blacks do not make a white” (DN)/ “My bonny lies over the ocean” (FM)

DP, FM, NS, DN

JL

EJM, TS

ABC, 03-Jun-2004

27:43, 12995, m

MH D/L

Ga

 

 

1962-1964

?

ABC #102

·          Vocabularies: Janeite, about-sledge, dan, wertherism

·          Books and characters: Smee, Mr. Goldfinger, Mr. Slope, Abel Mankwitch

·          Poetry and verse: Marlowe “The passionate shepherd and his love”, Carroll “Bruno and Sylvie”, Rossetti “The blessed damoiselle”, Shakespeare “Henry VIII”

·          French and Latin sayings: cherche la femme, sic transit Gloria muni, mens sana in corpose sano, dulcie et decorum est

·          “The die is cast” (FM) / “Keep right on to the end of the road” (DN)

DP, FM, NS, DN

JL

EJM, TS

ABC, 10-Jun-2004

27:20, 12820, m

MH D/L

Ga

 

 

1962-1964

?

ABC #103

·          Vocabularies: romaunt, furbish, animacule, tort

·          Descriptions: gorgons, Don Juan, Peter Pan, Shakespeare

·          French and Latin tags: QED, if youth only knew…, O tempore o mores, morituri te salutem

·          Origins and Derivations: haversack, a decent chap, delirium, checkmate

·          “Sweet are the uses of adversity” (DN) / “The better part of valour is discretion” (FM)

DP, FM, NS, DN

JL

EJM, TS

ABC, 17-Jun-2004

27:42, 12989, m

MH D/L

Ga

 

 

1962-1964

?

ABC #104

·          Vocabularies: emeritus, perigee, salacious, telearchics

·          Who or What Was: Alatlanta, Atlantis, Bucephalus, Calypso

·          Origins and Derivations: to lay it on with a trowel, to sail the high seas, to feel hipped, to browbeat

·          Shakespeare: What You Will, Shakespeare’s children, plays with more than one part, a wound

·          “Here’s to the girl with the pair of blue eyes” (DN) / “I wonder who’s kissing her now” (FM)

DP, FM, NS, DN

JL

EJM, TS

ABC, 24-Jun-2004

27:42, 12989, m

MH D/L

Ga

 

 

1962-1964

?

ABC #105

·          Vocabularies: desiderata, ruth, siffleur, rumtum

·          Rigins and Derivations: hooligan, moonraker, namby-pamby, knickerbockers

·          Authors: George Eliot, Jack London, Harrison Amesworth, Thomas Hardy

·          Who/Why/Where: The bell in Edmonton, ate mince and quince with a runcible spoon, Walrus doubts the strand can be swept, Winnie the Pooh

·          “Oh what a beautiful morning” (FM)/ “Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean” (DN)

DP, FM, NS, DN

JL

EJM, TS

ABC, 01-Jul-2004

27:17, 12793, m

MH D/L

Ga

 

 

1962-1964

?

ABC #106

·          Vocabularies: gingival, flocsinocinihilipilification, meed, hymnody

·          Shakeperean first lines: Antony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, Henry V, Merry Wives of Windsor

·          Verse and Poetry: Ode to a Nightingale by Keats, Time I’ve Lost in Wooing by Thomas More, Hamlet, Goldsmith about Garrick

·          Origins and Derivations: slough of despond, belfry, barracking, catchpole

·          “Slow and steady wins the race” (DN) / “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket” (FM)

DP, FM, NS, DN

JL

EJM, TS

ABC, 08-Jul-2004

27:37, 12951, m

MH D/L

Ga

 

 

1962-1964

?

ABC #107

·          Vocabularies: rahat lakoom, jobation, fleming, hoky poky

·          Court questions: court cupboard, court plaster, court of pied power, court of love

·          Origins and Derivations: out Herod Herod, Clerk known as Nobby, italics, to peach on someone

·          Who/Why/What/Where: rook as parson, Great Plague, Tennyson’s “The Revenge”, Herrick’s “Julia”

·          “I will return” (FM)/ “Should auld acquaintance be forgot” (DN)

DP, FM, NS, DN

JL

EJM, TS

ABC, 15-Jul-2004

27:36, 12945, m

MH D/L

Ga

 

 

1962-1964

?

ABC #108

·          Vocabularies: hagiolatry, sabreur, indigene, gnosis

·          Verse and Poetry: Tennyson’s The Brook, Kingsley’s The Sands of Dee, Poe’s Annabelle Lee, Omar Khayaim

·          Origins and Derivations: for a song, backroom boys, to be made a cat’s paw, baggage

·          Call words: call a man out, call bird, call of the House, call day

·          “All quiet on the western front” (DN) / “A little more than kin and less than kind” (FM)

DP, FM, NS, DN

JL

EJM, TS

ABC, 22-Jul-2004

27:17, 12794, m

MH D/L

Ga

 

 

1962-1964

?

ABC #109

·          Vocabularies: galantine, lamasery, miscibility, cucking stool

·          Nurseryland: Baa baa black sheep, Winken blinked and nod, straw sticks and bricks, Jack and the beanstalk

·          Origins and Derivations: to rat, dago, Catherine wheel, hussy

·          French or Latin expressions: in vino veritas, sans culotte, soi disant, pis allet

·          “Revenge is a kind of wild justice” (DN) / “I’m getting married in the morning” (FM)

DP, FM, NS, DN

JL

EJM, TS

ABC, 29-Jul-2004

27:41, 12987, m

MH D/L

Ga

 

 

1962-1964

?

ABC #110

·          Vocabularies: gharry, cryptasthesia, shako, cuisse

·          Greek Mythology: Baucis and Philemon, Daedalus and Icarus, Orpheus and Eurydice, Jason and Medea

·          Origins and Derivations: a toast, pass the buck, skylarking, slewed

·          Literature and Drama: Anthony Trollope, Moliere, Dickens, George Eliot

·          “I am a citizen of the world” (FM) / “I don’t want to play in your yard” (DN) /

DP, FM, NS, DN

JL

EJM, TS

ABC, 05-Aug-2004

27:34, 12926, m

MH D/L

Ga

 

 

1962-1964

?

ABC #111

·          Vocabularies: hydromel, ultimogeniture, nidification, opsimath

·          Gulliver’s Travels: Glumdalclitch, big Endians and little Endians, Huhnhnyms and yahoos, strulbrugs

·          Verse and Poetry: Rupert Brook Granchester, Kathleen O’Vorneen, Health unto his Majesty, Greensleeves

·          Who/What/When/Where: Mr. Rochester, de Winter, Study in Scarlet, David Copperfield

·          “In the great right of an excessive wrong” (DN) / “I’m going to wash that man right out of my hair” (FM)

DP, FM, NS, DN

JL

EJM, TS

ABC, 12-Aug-2004

27:33, 12919, m

MH D/L

Ga

 

 

1962-1964

?

ABC #112

·          Vocabularies: jacobus, herbarium, mavorneen, barbican

·          Literary references: Cooper on England, Shaw on marriage, Wordsworth on Westminster Bridge, Thackeray on Napoleon

·          Origins and Derivations: with a jaundiced eye, lantern jawed, to peg out, a dead heat

·          Ex words: ex gratia, ex officio, ex libris, ex partie

·          “The bigger they come, the harder they fall” (DN) / “I have nothing to declare except my genius” (FM)

DP, FM, NS, DN

JL

EJM, TS

ABC, 19-Aug-2004

27:40, 12971, m

MH D/L

Ga

 

 

1962-1964

?

ABC #113

·          Vocabularies: hebetude, scut, mezzanine, herby

·          Reason Why: feud in Lorna Doone, tortoise win the race, why did Rip van Winkle leave home, Caesar mistrust Cassius

·          Verse and Poetry: William Allingham Faeries, Dobson Rose Leaves, Herrick To Anthea, Browning Home Thoughts from Abroad

·          Origins and Derivations: penicillin, gout, to go through the mill, a man with no scruples

·          “And so to bed” (FM) / “There is a happy land far far away” (DN)

DP, FM, NS, DN

JL

EJM, TS

ABC, 26-Aug-2004

27:31, 12903, m

MH D/L

Ga

 

 

1962-1964

?

ABC #114

·          Vocabularies: dressage, barcarole, proponent, windage

·          Reason Why: Don Quixote tilts at windmills, Tom Jones is adopted and then dismissed, Jane Eyre finally marries Mr. Rochester, Queen Guinevere hie to a nunnery

·          Origins and Derivations: mealy mouthed, etiquette, mad as a hatter, to pay your footing

·          Definitions: marriage, music, applied science, women

·          “Take a pair of sparkling eyes” (DN) / “It was roses, roses all the way” (FM)

DP, FM, NS, DN

JL

EJM, TS

ABC, 02-Sep-2004

27:31, 12907, m

MH D/L

Ga

 

 

1962-1964

?

ABC #113

·          Vocabularies:

·          Verse and Poetry: Tennyson’s The Brook, Kingsley’s The Sands of Dee, Poe’s Annabelle Lee, Omar Khayaim

·          Origins and Derivations: for a song, backroom boys, to be made a cat’s paw, baggage

·          Call words: call a man out, call bird, call of the House, call day

·          “” (DN) / “” (FM)

DP, FM, NS, DN

JL

EJM, TS

ABC, 09-Sep-2004

27:37, 12793, m

MH D/L

 

 

 

1962-1964

?

ABC #113

·          Vocabularies:

·          Verse and Poetry: Tennyson’s The Brook, Kingsley’s The Sands of Dee, Poe’s Annabelle Lee, Omar Khayaim

·          Origins and Derivations: for a song, backroom boys, to be made a cat’s paw, baggage

·          Call words: call a man out, call bird, call of the House, call day

·          “” (DN) / “” (FM)

DP, FM, NS, DN

JL

EJM, TS

ABC, 16-Sep-2004

27:37, 12793, m

MH D/L

 

 

 

1962-1964

?

ABC #113

·          Vocabularies:

·          Verse and Poetry: Tennyson’s The Brook, Kingsley’s The Sands of Dee, Poe’s Annabelle Lee, Omar Khayaim

·          Origins and Derivations: for a song, backroom boys, to be made a cat’s paw, baggage

·          Call words: call a man out, call bird, call of the House, call day

·          “” (DN) / “” (FM)

DP, FM, NS, DN

JL

EJM, TS

MH D/L

 

 

 

1962-1964

?

ABC #113

·          Vocabularies:

·          Verse and Poetry: Tennyson’s The Brook, Kingsley’s The Sands of Dee, Poe’s Annabelle Lee, Omar Khayaim

·          Origins and Derivations: for a song, backroom boys, to be made a cat’s paw, baggage

·          Call words: call a man out, call bird, call of the House, call day

·          “” (DN) / “” (FM)

 

MH D/L

 

 

 

1962-1964

?

ABC #113

·          Vocabularies:

·          Verse and Poetry: Tennyson’s The Brook, Kingsley’s The Sands of Dee, Poe’s Annabelle Lee, Omar Khayaim

·          Origins and Derivations: for a song, backroom boys, to be made a cat’s paw, baggage

·          Call words: call a man out, call bird, call of the House, call day

·          “” (DN) / “” (FM)

 

MH D/L

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

17-Jan-1968

Series 18 (1968)

S18e01

#220
  • Vocabularies: pithecantrope, tetterwort, proa, belcher
  • Odds and Ends: next of kin, Provos, Pink Un, Jumbo
  • Flower names: dahlia, dandelion, gladiolus, cowslip
  • “What are the wild waves saying” (DN)/ “Is your journey really necessary” (FM)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

KIPO 28-Apr-2005

KALW 06-May-2005

KWAX 07-May-2005

25:53, 24272, “s”

 

Ga

 

 

24-Jan-1968

S18e02

#221
  • Vocabularies: jocko, pintado, sepulchre, barm
  • Origins and Derivations: cenotaph, nip in the bud, Lido, stalemate
  • Quotations: Tale of Two Cities, Whistler to Oscar Wilde, Wilde entering America, Henry VIII about Anne of Cleves
  • ”How to win friends and influence people” (FM) / “Will wonders never cease” (DN)/

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

KIPO 05-May-2005

KALW 13-May-2005

KWAX 14-May-2005

25:53, 24278, “s”

 

Ga

 

 

31-Jan-1968

S18e03

#222
  • Vocabularies: ruddock, runcible spoon, toxsophila, corroboree
  • Odd Men Out: women authors’ books, Pilgrim’s Progress, Dickens’ characters, poets laureate
  • Odds and Ends: goatsucker, glowworm/slowworm, katydid, put a monkey
  • “My courage and my skill, to him that can get it” (DN)/ “Drink to me only with thine eyes” (FM)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

KIPO 12-May-2005

KALW 20-May-2005

KWAX 21-May-2005

25:54, 24293, “s”

 

Ga

 

 

07-Feb-1968

S18e04

#223
  • Vocabularies: armageddon, slivovitz, bravo, phillumenist
  • Who/Why/Where/What: Orwell’s Animal Farm, veteran car/vintage car, Coleridge’s Kublai Khan, Tess of the D’Ubervilles
  • Nicknames and Initials: ETA, Tube Alloys/Manhattan Project, Old Bailey, Vinegar Joe
  • “The best laid schemes of mice and men…” (FM) / “Your money or your life” (DN)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

KIPO 19-May-2005

KALW 27-May-2005

KWAX 28-May-2005

26:01, 24393, “s”

 

Ga

 

 

14-Feb-1968

S18e05

#224
  • Vocabularies: licit, gallopade, tawse, disembosom
  • Odds and Ends of Mythology: Ares, Allicto/Megira / Tisiphone, Acis and Pygmalion, Hermes
  • Grand Questions: Grand Tour, Grand Prix, Grand Corniche, Grand Old Man (Gladstone)
  • “Actions speak louder than words” (DN) / “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again” (FM)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

KIPO 26-May-2005

KALW 03-Jun-2005

KWAX 04-Jun-2005

25:56, 24328, “s”

 

Ga

 

 

21-Feb-1968

S18e06

#225
  • Vocabularies: junta, vina, fingerling, rubbadub
  • Moon questions: moon calf, moonlight flit, moon’s men, elephant in the moon
  • Who, what, why: snark, watteau bodice, Malagasy Republic, Eric Blair in 1984
  • “Anyone for Tennis?” (FM) / “Here today, gone tomorrow” (DN)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

KIPO 02-Jun-2005

KALW 10-Jun-2005

KWAX 11-Jun-2005

25:55, 24298, “s”

 

G

 

 

28-Feb-1968

S18e07

#226
  • Vocabularies: tippy, whinstone, stiver, caseous
  • City titles: city of David, auld Reekie, city of Saints, cities of the plain
  • Origins and derivations: to swap horses in midstream, morris dance, to square the circle, to turn turtle
  • “A new broom sweeps clean” (DN) / “An ill favoured thing, sir, but mine own” (FM)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

KIPO 09-Jun-2005

KALW 17-Jun-2005

KWAX 18-Jun-2005

25:53, 24276, “s”

 

Ga

 

 

06-Mar-1968

S18e08

#227
  • Vocabularies: coloury, murex, hackery, annulate
  • Names: Potipher’s wife, Johnny come lately, U Noo, Molly Bloom
  • Butchered verse: Casabianca, Excelsior, I Wandered lonely as a cloud, To virgins (Herrick)
  • Odd Men Out: Ratty, The Thin Man, Journal of the Plague Year, Browning
  • “I do like to be beside the seaside” (FM) / “A happy issue out of all their afflictions” (DN)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

KIPO 16-Jun-2005

KALW 23-Jun-2005

KWAX 24-Jun-2005

25:51, 24248, “s”

 

Ga

 

 

13-Mar-1968

S18e09

#228
  • Vocabularies: fimbriated, jemadar, logogram, naiad
  • Odds and Ends: unpersons, Guinea Pig Club, regicides, Red Dean
  • Altered Verses: Macaulay, William Godwin, Richard Lovelace, Charles Kingsley
  • “History is bunk” (DN)/ “Take it from here” (FM)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

KIPO 23-Jun-2005

KALW 01-Jul-2005

KWAX 02-Jul-2005

25:46, 24171, “s”

 

Ga

 

 

20-Mar-1968

Could be missing episode or series break here; 2 DN’s in a row

S18e10

#229
  • Vocabularies: pittite, avadavat, scaldino, sinciput
  • G.B. Shaw characters: Captain Shotover, King Magnus, Dubedad, Andrew Undershaft
  • Mythology: Polyphemus, Cerberus, Scylla and Charybdis, Pythian Games
  • “Up, up, my friend and quit your books” (DN) /  “One good turn deserves another” (FM)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

KIPO 30-Jun-2005

KALW 08-Jul-2005

KWAX 09-Jul-2005

25:46, 24166, “s”

 

Ga

 

 

27-Mar-1968

S18e11

#230
  • Vocabularies: anopheles, medicaster, baccalaureate, tucum
  • Sayings: sent up the river, jerkwater town, Serbonian Bog, barmy on the crumpet
  • Who, what, why: Aunt Jerbiska, Against a Grocer, Julia’s leg, the oysters
  • Odd Rhymes: Tanglewood Tales, Daedalus and Icarus, the centaurs, Prometheus
  • “The lady is a tramp” (FM) / “Women and elephants never forget” (DN)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

KIPO 07-Jul-2005

KALW 15-Jul-2005

KWAX 16-Jul-2005

25:47, 24173, “s”

 

Ga

 

 

01-Apr-1968

S18e12

#231
  • Vocabularies: suasion, sexillion, polity, canoodle
  • Characters: Edward Bear, Mrs. Hudson, Colin Shepherd, Bathsheba Everdeen
  • Definitions and derivations: klaxon, corset, plagiarism, sputnik
  • Who, why, what: Kipling, Thackeray, Poe, Beerbohm
  • “Truth is stranger than fiction” (DN) / “And so to bed” (FM)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

KIPO 13-Jul-2005

KALW 22-Jul-2005

KWAX 23-Jul-2005

25:53, 24276, “s”

 

Ga

 

 

08-Apr-1968

S18e13

#232
  • Vocabularies: aurochs, bombazine, datura, mumchance
  • Abbreviations: prox.acc., B.Th.U., stg, 12mo.,
  • Odd Man Out: Wuthering Heights,  City of Dreadful Night, The Hound of Heaven, Peter Simple
  • Nouns of Multitude: murmuration of starlings, panel of jurymen, batch of bread, posse of sheriff’s officers
  • “Appetite comes with eating” (FM) / “The two oldest professions in the world, ruined by amateurs” (DN)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

KIPO 20-Jul-2005

KALW 29-Jul-2005

KWAX 30-Jul-2005

27:38, 25914, “s”

 

Ga

 

 

15-Apr-1968

S18e14

#233
  • Vocabularies: scrimshaw, pelota, cabochon, tigon
  • Author of the week: Robert Browning’s “Pippa’s Passing”, songs changed people to the good, “Sordello”, “Sonnets from the Portuguese”
  • Differences: parasang/parasite, loricate/lorikeet, factitious/fictitious, presumptive/presumptuous
  • “You must take the rough with the smooth” (DN) / “Half a loaf is better than no bread” (FM)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

KIPO 27-Jul-2005

KALW 05-Aug-2005

KWAX 06-Aug-2005

25:20, 23758, “s”

 

Ga

 

 

22-Apr-1968

S18e15

#234
  • Vocabularies: suable, troat, cenozoic, interosculate
  • Author of the week: G.K. Chesterton and Flying Inn, The Old Ship, The Man who was Thursday, Father Brown’s innocence
  • Nouns of movement: Entrechat, telemark, caracole, abseil
  • Previous line of Poetry: Byron, Cowper, Wordsworth, Gilbert
  • “To err is human, to forgive is divine” (FM) / “Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness” (DN)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

KIPO 04-Aug-2005
KALW 12-Aug-2005
KWAX 20-Aug-2005
25:27, 23869, “s”

 

Ga

 

 

11-Nov-1968

Series 19 (1968-69)

S19e01

#235
  • Vocabularies: batata, ululate, sierra, erst
  • Differences: avant garde/avant courtier, bullate/bullace, charlok / charlotte, hubbub/hubblebubble
  • Poems: Ellawela? Wilcox, Edward Lear, Chesterton, Hemond
  • “A crown is no cure for the headache” (DN) / “Honi soit qui mal y pense” (FM)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

KIPO 11-Aug-2005

KALW 19-Aug-2005

25:32, 23939, “s”

 

Ga

 

 

18-Nov-1968

S19e02

#236

ABC #249
  • Vocabularies: sternutation, midinette, fescue, codpiece
  • Death Valley, Kaaba, The Hanging Gardens, Fernando Po
  • Differences: complacence/complaisance, ligature/ ligament, deprecate/depreciate, gombeen/ gombroon
  • “Believe it or not” (FM) / “Blood is thicker than water” (DN)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

KIPO 18-Aug-2005

KALW 26-Aug-2005

KWAX 27-Aug-2005

25:28, 23881, “s”

 

Ga

 

 

25-Nov-1968

S19e03

#237
  • Vocabularies: clone, infusoria, voodoo, humdinger
  • Authors: Swift, liliputians/brobdidnagians/laputa, big/ little/silly, Esther Johnson/ Esther van Rummer
  • Imaginary Clubs: Pikestaff, Wild Horses, Hindleg, Smilers
  • Differences: osiery/ossuary, paladin/palanquin, polypetalus/polysepalus, lithotomy/lithotrity
  • "Toot toot Tootsie good-bye” (FM) / “Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea” (DN)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

KIPO 25-Aug-2005

KALW 02-Sep-2005

KWAX 03-Sep-2005

27:34, 25851, “s”

 

Ga

 

 

02-Dec-1968

S19e04

#238
  • Vocabularies: redingote, felloe, clepsydra, backsheesh
  • Slang: hot blanketeer, odd come shortly, pew opener’s muscle, give a girl a green gown
  • Differences: prevaricate/procrastinate, cachalong/ cachelot, iridescent/irridentist, LIFO/LILO
  • “Nor iron bars a cage” (DN) / “He flies through the air with the greatest of ease” (FM)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

KIPO 01-Sep-2005 ?

KALW 09-Sep-2005

KWAX 10-Sep-2005

27:22, 25664, “s”

 

Ga

 

 

09-Dec-1968

S19e05

#239
  • Vocabularies: sciamachy, mavis, balderkin, eneurisis
  • Authors: Jane Austen, Lady deBurr/Elizabeth/Jane, Emma, Northanger Abbey
  • Origins: chancellor, dragoons, Quadrivium, tre- pol- pen-
  • “Where are the snows of yesteryear” (FM) / “The girl that I marry will have to be as soft and as pink as a nursery” (DN)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

KIPO 08-Sep-2005 ?

KALW 16-Sep-2005

KWAX 17-Sep-2005

27:30, 25796, S

 

Ga

 

 

c. 1970

before decimalization

II-06

ABC

#253
  • Vocabularies: repoussé, firkin, daguerrotype, bottomry
  • Authors: Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, swam the Hellespont, died in Greece from malaria
  • Words of movement: croquet, roman candle, fool’s mate, selling the dummy
  • “There is a destiny that shapes our ends rough hew them how we will” (DN) / “Don’t cross your bridges ‘til you come to them” (FM)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

JL, (TS)

DmP, 01-09-13

WOI-FM, 15-Sep-2002

KIPO 15-Sep-2005 ?

KALW 23-Sep-2005

KWAX 24-Sep-2005

27:31, 25812, S

 

Ga

 

 

c. 1972

after decimalization

II-08

ABC #255
  • Vocabularies: auscultation, sabuless, ecru, metheglin
  • Initials: fur., n.s., op., trs.
  • Odd Man Out: Agatha Christie, Ray Bradbury, A.A. Milne, burgundies
  • Doggy questions: dog days, dog’s nose, dog latin, blush like a black dog
  • “Remember that time is money” (FM) / “For the labourer is worthy of his hire” (DN)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

JL, (TS)

DmP, 01-09-27

KALW-FM, 2002-Sep-27

KIPO 22-Sep-2005 ?

KALW 30-Sep-2005

KWAX 01-Oct-2005

27:35, 25867, S

 

Ga

 

 

c. 1971

after decimalization

II-09

ABC #256
  • Vocabularies: congé, fougasse, brambling, scaup
  • Author: P.G.Wodehouse, 1881, Reginald Jeeves, Lord Emsworth
  • Colloquialisms: kissing crust, hotel warming pan, John Company, indescribibles or inexpressibles
  • "Where are the snows of yesteryear” (DN) / “I feel no pain, dear mother, now” (FM)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

JL, (TS)

DmP. 01-10-04

27:19,6405 KB

KIPO 29-Sep-2005 ?

KALW 07-Oct-2005

KWAX 08-Oct-2005

27:34, 25849, S

 

Ga

 

 

c. 1971

II-10

ABC #257
  • Vocabularies: fuligenous, chaparral, affiche, eldritch
  • Author: Samuel Pepys, Cambridge, his wife, Secretary of the Admiralty
  • Odd Man Out: ports/madeira, Keats/Bible, beef/veal, Ruskin/Buchan
  • Initials: FAO, i.h.p., Vis., frl.
  • “Be good sweet maid, and let who will be clever” (FM) / “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party” (DN)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

JL, (TS)

DmP, 01-10-11, 27:35

KWAX-FM 19-Oct-2002

KIPO 06-Oct-2005

KALW 14-Oct-2005

KWAX 15-Oct-2005

27:32, 25814, S

 

Ga

 

 

c. 1971

II-11

ABC #258

    From the Institution of Electrical Engineers, London:

  • Vocabularies: icosahedron, gunter, heaviside layer, interferometer
  • Inside Out: polygamy, sarong, plagiarize, optimist
  • Greek mythology: Athena’s birth, Prometheus, Danae, Judgment of Paris
  • Quotes: Byron, of the Black Prince at Crecy, of Napoleon, Queen Elizabeth I
  • “Oh what can ail thee, knight at arms” (FM) / “The buyer needs a hundred eyes” (DN)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

JL, (TS)

DmP, 01-10-18

KIPO 13-Oct-2005

KALW 21-Oct-2005

KWAX 22-Oct-2005

KXOT 03-May-2008

25:05, 23517, S

 

Ga

 

 

c. 1971

II-12

ABC #259
  • Vocabularies: martello, trope, stithy, copula
  • “In” words: in flagrante delicto, in partibus, in puris naturalibis, in petto
  • Origins and Derivations: etiquette, Grub Street, “you are chaffing me,” one-eyed steak
  • “Honesty is the best policy” (DN) / “Full blown poppies overcharged with rain, decline the head and drooping kiss the plain” (FM)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

JL, (TS)

DmP, 01-10-25

WITF-FM, 14-Jan-1975

KWAX-FM, 2002-Nov-02

KIPO 20-Oct-2005

KALW 28-Oct-2005

KWAX 29-Oct-2005

KX)T 10-May-2008

25:09, 23589, S

 

Ga

 

 

c. 1971

II-15

ABC #262
  • Vocabularies: jacobus, fiddley, dimity, pudsy
  • Who/What Was: Grip, Gargantua and Pantagruel, Captain Nemo, Mrs. Thrael (sp?)
  • Dress or Clothing: weepers, antigropelos, shako, pea jacket
  • “Fine feathers make fine birds” (FM) / “Let us cling to our legends, sir” (DN)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

JL, (TS)

DmP, 01-11-15

WITF-FM, 21-Jan-1975

KWAX-FM 2002-Nov-09

KIPO 27-Oct-2005

KALW 04-Nov-2005

KWAX 05-Nov-2005

25:01, 23466, S

 

Ga

 

 

c. 1971

II-13

ABC #260
  • Vocabularies: frangipani, disembogue, lapicide, bum bailiff
  • Origins and Derivations: mind your p’s and q’s, three sheets in the wind, to win hands down, to eat humble pie
  • Spelt alike but differing meanings: gammon, chase, maroon, hobby
  • “Only connect” (DN) / “The son and heir of a mongrel bitch” (FM)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

JL, (TS)

DmP, 01-11-01

WITF-FM, 26-Jan-1975

KWAX-FM, 2002-Nov-16

KIPO 03-Nov-2005

KALW 11-Nov-2005

KWAX 12-Nov-2005

25:05, 23529, S

 

Ga

 

 

c. 1971

II-14

ABC #261
  • Vocabularies: pinfold, Hotchkiss, jalousie, larrop
  • Author of the  week: Lawrence Stern and Tristram Shandy
  • Saints: St. Cyr, St. Gotthard, St. Cecilia, St. Lubbock
  • Tools of the trade: sphygmomanometer, tailings dam, pointillism, couch
  • “One good turn deserves another” (FM) / “The thousand natural shocks the flesh is heir to” (DN)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

JL, (TS)

DmP, 01-11-08

WITF-FM, 4-Feb-1975

KWAX-FM, 2002-Nov-23

KIPO 10-Nov-2005

KALW 18-Nov-2005

KWAX 19-Nov-2005

25:09, 23586, S

 

Ga

 

 

c. 1971

II-16

ABC #263
  • Vocabularies: antipasto, knout, hoplite, apparatchik
  • Odd man out: dogs, religious sects, puddings, astronomical bodies
  • Olds: Old Glory, Old Dominion, Old Man of the Mountains, Old Bill
  • Shakepearean rulers: Orsino Duke of Illyria, County Paris, Theseus Duke of Athens, Thane of Fife and his wife
  • “Even lovers find their peace at last” (DN) / “Make me an offer” (FM)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

JL, (TS)

DmP 01-11-22

WITF-FM 11-Feb-1975

KWAX-FM 2002-Nov-30

KIPO 17-Nov-2005

KALW 25-Nov-2005

KWAX 26-Nov-2005

25:02, 23474, S

 

Ga

 

 

c. 1971

II-17

ABC #264
  • Vocabularies: demiurge, gigmanity, gromwell, hype
  • Inside Out Definitions: oats, middle age, marriage, understudy
  • Derivations: white night, borough English, wool sack, Vinland
  • “A rose red city half as old as time” (FM) / “De mortuis nil nisi bunkam” (DN)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

JL, (TS)

DmP, 01-11-29

WITF-FM, 18-Feb-1975

KWAX-FM, 2002-Dec-07

KIPO 24-Nov-2005

KALW 02-Dec-2005

KWAX 03-Dec-2005

25:08, 23569, S

 

Ga

 

 

c. 1973

possibly

03-Dec-1972

IIIA-01

ABC #265
  • Vocabularies: wombling, gasparghoul, pollywog, gyrovague
  • “Muffled cats catch no mice”, “The Bishop has put his foot in it”, “to hear as a hog in harvest time”, “never wear a brown hat in Friesland”
  • Odd man out: nautical terms, international phonetic alphabet, parts of a horse, roses
  • “The time is out of joint” (DN) / “Remember that time is money” (FM)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

PM, (TS)

DmP 01-12-06, 24:59

WITF-FM 25-Feb-1975

KALW-FM, 2002-Dec-13

KIPO 01-Dec-2005

KALW 09-Dec-2005

KWAX 10-Dec-2005

25:05, 23518 KB, S

 

Ga

 

 

c. 1973

IIIA-01a

ABC #268
  • Vocabularies: expurgifaction, borborygm, harpress, haboob
  • Nouns of assembly: kindle of kittens, fesnynge of ferrets, a sleuth of bears, charm of goldfinches
  • Death: Aeschylus, Francis Bacon, Edward IV’s brother George, Belle Elmore
  • “It’s a long lane that has no turning” (FM) / “A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse” (DN)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

PM, (TS)

MH 01-12-27, 25:00

WITF-FM 04-Mar-1975

KALW-FM, 2002-Dec-20

KIPO 08-Dec-2005

KALW 16-Dec-2005

KWAX 17-Dec-2005

24:59, 23437, S

 

Ga

 

 

c. 1973

IIIA-02

ABC #266
  • Vocabularies: widdishins, embracery, treacler, blobbing
  • Misquotations: Herrick’s “Delight in Disorder”, Donne’s Devotions, Gray’s “Elegy”, Coleridge “Kubla Khan”
  • Differences: shillyshally dillydally, hocuspocus hankypanky, hodgepodge higgledypigglety, nambypamby niminypiminy
  • Royal remarks: Queen Victoria vs. Gladstone, Henry VIII vs. Cranmer, Henry II vs. Thomas a Becket, George II vs. Wolfe
  • “They tried to tell us we’re too young” (DN) / “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” (FM)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

PM, (TS)

DmP 01-12-13

WITF-FM 18-Mar-1975

WOI-FM, 22-Dec-2002

KIPO 15-Dec-2005

KALW 23-Dec-2005

KWAX 24-Dec-2005

25:07, 23548, S

 

Ga

 

 

c. 1973

IIIA-05

ABC #269
  • Vocabularies: nuncheon, mackninny, jokee, moxa
  • Differences: piebald and skewbald, prone and supine, flotsam and jetsam, spic and span
  • Origins and derivations: Plantagenet, constable, bonfire, daisy
  • “If music be the food of love, play on” (FM) / “Charity shall cover the multitude of sins” (DN)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

PM, (TS)

MH 02-01-03

WITF-FM 25-Mar-1975

KIPO 22-Dec-2005

KALW 30-Dec-2005

KWAX 31-Dec-2005

25:04, 23513, S

 

Ga

 

 

c. 1973

IIIA-06

ABC #270
  • Vocabularies: pattypan, porbeagle, unking, couvade
  • Unfamiliar phrases: the black ox has trodden on your foot, to stand upon one’s pantopples, out of all scotch and notch, all the Tracys have the wind in their faces
  • Etymological imports: bosh, ketchup, slogan, booby
  • “Parting is such sweet sorrow” (FM) / “There is no accounting for taste” (DN)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

PM, (TS)

MH 02-01-10

WITF-FM 01-Apr-1975

KWAX-FM, 2003-Jan-11

KIPO 29-Dec-2005

KALW 06-Jan-2006

KWAX 07-Jan-2006

25:07, 23548, S

 

Ga

 

 

c. 1973

IIIA-07

ABC #271
  • Vocabularies: cabless, to google, surpeach, marowski
  • Misquotations: Blake’s “The Tyger”, Coleridge’s “The Ancient Mariner”, Longfellow’s “Song of Life”, Thomas Hood’s “I Remember”
  • Origins and derivations: flibbertygibbet, balderdash, tuxedo, sideburn
  • “Our antagonist is our helper” (DN) / “Deceits of the world, the flesh and the Devil” (FM)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

PM, (TS)

MH 02-01-17

WITF-FM 08-Apr-1975

KWAX-FM 18-Jan -2003

KIPO 05-Jan-2006

KALW 13-Jan-2006

KWAX 14-Jan-2006

25:07, 23548, S

 

Ga

 

 

c.1971

“Christmas edition”

US rebroadcast out of order in Christmas week

II-Xxa
  • Vocabularies: bohea, degustation, ampulla, rotgut
  • Inside out definitions: gravity, Hollywood, marriage, opera
  • Odd man out: fruits, cookbook authors, animals, Loire wines
  • Seasonal Expressions: The Waits, Hogmanay, mince pies, boar's head

  • “A good example is the best sermon” (DN) / “Stand a little less between me and the sun” (FM)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

JL, (TS)

KWAX-FM, 2003-Jan-04

KXOT-FM, 20-Dec-2008

25:10, 23595, S

 

G

 

 

16-Dec-1968

S19e06

#240

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

M

 

 

23-Dec-1968

S19e07

#241

Commonwealth Institute, London:

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

M

 

 

30-Dec-1968

S19e08

#242

Commonwealth Institute, London:

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

M

 

 

06-Jan-1969

S19e09

#243

Commonwealth Institute, London:

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

M

 

 

13-Jan-1969

S19e10

#244

Commonwealth Institute, London:

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

M

 

 

28-Sep-1969

S20e01

#245

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

M

 

 

05-Oct-1969

S20e02

#246

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

M

 

 

12-Oct-1969

S20e03

#247

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

M

 

 

19-Oct-1969

S20e04

#248

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

M

 

 

26-Oct-1969

S20e05

#249

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

M

 

 

02-Nov-1969

S20e06

#250

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

M

 

 

09-Nov-1969

S20e07

#251

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

M

 

 

16-Nov-1969

S20e08

#252

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

M

 

 

23-Nov-1969

S20e09

#253

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

M

 

 

30-Nov-1969

S20e10

#254

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

M

 

 

07-Dec-1969

S20e11

#255

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

M

 

 

14-Dec-1969

S20e12

#256

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

M

 

 

21-Dec-1969

S20e13

#257

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

M

 

 

08-Oct-1970

S21e01

#258

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

M

 

 

15-Oct-1970

S21e02

#259

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

M

 

 

22-Oct-1970

S21e03

#260

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

M

 

 

29-Oct-1970

S21e04

#261

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

M

 

 

05-Nov-1970

S21e05

#262

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

M

 

 

12-Nov-1970

S21e06

#263

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

M

 

 

19-Nov-1970

S21e07

#264

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

M

 

 

26-Nov-1970

S21e08

#265

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

M

 

 

03-Dec-1970

S21e09

#266

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

M

 

 

10-Dec-1970

S21e10

#267

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

M

 

 

17-Dec-1970

S21e11

#268

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

M

 

 

24-Dec-1970

S21e12

#269

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

M

 

 

31-Dec-1970

S21e13

#270

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

M

 

 

07-Jan-1971

S21e14

#271

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

M

 

 

14-Jan-1971

S21e15

#272

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

M

 

 

21-Jan-1971

S21e16

#273

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

M

 

 

27-Sep-1971

S22e01

#274

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

M

 

 

04-Oct-1971

S22e02

#275

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

M

 

 

11-Oct-1971

S22e03

#276

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

M

 

 

18-Oct-1971

S22e04

#277

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

M

 

 

25-Oct-1971

S22e05

#278

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

M

 

 

01-Nov-1971

S22e06

#279

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

M

 

 

08-Nov-1971

S22e07

#280

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

M

 

 

15-Nov-1971

S22e08

#281

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

M

 

 

22-Nov-1971

S22e09

#282

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

M

 

 

29-Nov-1971

S22e10

#283

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

M

 

 

06-Dec-1971

S22e11

#284

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

M

 

 

13-Dec-1971

S22e12

#285

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

M

 

 

20-Dec-1971

S22e13

#286

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

M

 

 

27-Dec-1971

S22e14

#287

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

M

 

 

01-Oct-1972

S23e01

#288

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

M

 

 

08-Oct-1972

S23e02

#289

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

M

 

 

15-Oct-1972

S23e03

#290

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

 

 

 

22-Oct-1972

S23e04

#291

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

 

 

 

29-Oct-1972

S23e05

#292

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

 

 

 

05-Nov-1972

S23e06

#293

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

 

 

 

12-Nov-1972

S23e07

#294

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

 

 

 

19-Nov-1972

S23e08

#295

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

 

 

 

26-Nov-1972

S23e09

#296

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

[EJM], [TS]

 

 

 

 

 

03-Dec-1972

S23e10

#297

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

PM, [TS]

 

 

 

 

 

10-Dec-1972

S23e11

#298

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

PM, [TS]

 

 

 

 

 

17-Dec-1972

S23e12

#299

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

PM, [TS]

 

 

 

 

 

24-Dec-1972

S23e13

#300

 

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

PM, [TS]

 

 

 

 

 

25-Dec-1972

S23eSP

Special

My Word – It’s My Music! #1

 

DP, FM, ASJ, DN and Dennis Franklyn, Ian Wallace

JL and Steve Race

PM, [TS]

 

 

 

 

 

02-Oct-1973

 

Series 24 (1973)

S24e01

RT #301

ABC #272
  • Vocabularies: ha-ha, fustanella, gadroon, semantics
  • Famous voices: Sybil Thorndike, Ralph Richardson, Michael Redgrave, Boris Karloff
  • Popularized technicalities: dilemma, flamboyant, ascendant, hectic
  • “Putting the cart before the horse” (DN) / “There are fairies at the bottom of our garden” (FM)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

PM, (TS)

MH 02-01-24, 24:58

WITF-FM 15-Apr-1975

KALW-FM, 24-Jan-2003

KIPO 12-Jan-2006

KALW 20-Jan-2006

KWAX 21-Jan-2006

25:09, 23579, S

 

G

a

 

 

09-Oct-1973

S24e02

RT #302

ABC #273
  • Vocabularies: dichotomy, pixilated, lycanthrope, nouse
  • Medical phraseology: mild pyrexia with choriza, presbyopia and stribismus, palpation of patella and bursitis, abdominal vesicles with herpes and varicella
  • Color blue: horse race for 3-year olds, blue peter, The Bluebird of Happiness, Bluestockings
  • “Come into the garden, Maude” (FM) / “Charity begins at home” (DN)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

PM, (TS)

MH 02-01-31, 24:54

WITF-FM 22-Apr-1975

CE/DmP 00-01-08

KIPO 19-Jan-2006

KALW 27-Jan-2006

KWAX 28-Jan-2006

25:06, 23540, S

 

G

a

 

 

16-Oct-1973

 

S24e03

RT #303

ABC #274
  • Vocabularies: meiosis, blastoderm, philippic, cybernetics
  • European proverbs: the chamber of sickness is the chapel of devotion, three failures and a fire makes a Scotsman a fortune, the dogs bark but the caravan passes, when the sun rises owls feel uncomfortable
  • Epitaphs: Keats, Dorothy Parker, Danbrook, Dryden
  • “A rose is a rose is a rose” (DN) / “Let us now praise famous men and the fathers who begat us” (FM)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

PM, (TS)

MH, 02-02-07 25:03

WITF-FM 29-Apr-1975

DmP 00-01-15

WOI-FM, 02-Feb-2003

KIPO 26-Jan-2006

KALW 10-Feb-2006

KWAX 05-Feb-2006

25:20, 23760, S

 

G

a

 

 

23-Oct-1973

 

S24e04

RT #304

ABC #275
  • Vocabularies: pusillanimous, persiflage, polemic, pejorative
  • Odd man out: Charlton Mackeral, Jack Hargreaves, Mr. Tope, Bartholomew Strange
  • Origins and derivations: teddy bear, to steel one’s thunder
  • “The lady of the lamp” (FM) / “Sweet are the uses of adversity” (DN)  

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

PM, (TS)

MH, 02-02-14, 24:59

WITF-FM 06-May-1975

DmP 00-01-22

--

KWAX-FM, 16Aug-2008

25:09,23587, S

 

G

 

 

30-Oct-1973

 

S24e05

RT #305

ABC #276
  • Vocabularies: panjandrum, tangram, dithyramb, kibosh
  • Poetry: Keats, Donne, Wordsworth, Shakespeare
  • Incomplete Remarks: Oscar Wilde, Sir Thomas More, Disraeli, Benjamin Franklin
  • “The grandeur that was Rome” (DN) / “Oh, that this too too solid flesh would melt” (FM)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

PM, (TS)

MH, 02-02-21, 24:57

KWAX-FM, 23-Feb-2003

KIPO 02-Feb-2006

KALW 03-Feb-2006

KWAX 11-Feb-2006

25:08, 23572, S

 

G

 

 

06-Nov-1973

    S24e06

    RT #306

    ABC #277
  • Vocabularies: myriologue, waterbury, snickersnee, rantipole
  • Origins: laconic, galoshes
  • Dialect words: freckles, slate sizes, words of truce, left handed
  • “Pop goes the weasel” (FM) / “Hard words break no bones” (DN)  

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

PM, [TS]

MH, 02-02-28, 25:07

WOI-FM, 18-May-2003

KWAX-FM, 02-Mar-2003

KALW 10-Feb-2006

KWAX 18-Feb-2006

25:24, 23826, S

 

G

 

 

13-Nov-1973

    S24e07
    RT  #307

    ABC #278
  • Vocabularies: zombie, iapp, smellie, euphory
  • Observations on Women: Kipling, Pope, George Meredith, Kipling
  • Words in common: fungi, contemporaries, all married King Georges, Pittman shorthand
  • “Double double toil and trouble” (DN) / “A woman’s work is never done” (FM)  

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

PM, [TS]

MH, 02-03-07, 25:06

DmP, 00-02-12

--

KWAX-FM, 08-Mar-2003

24:56, 17533, S

 

G

 

 

    20-Nov-1973

S24e08

RT #308

ABC #279
  • Vocabularies: sycophant, fallallary, artifact, kazoo
  • Misquotations: pride goeth before destruction, chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy, such stuff as dreams are made on, with the skin of my teeth
  • Inn Signs: The Green Man, The Rose and Crown, The Talbot, The Goat and Compasses
  • “What’sthe good of a home if you’re never in it?” (FM) / “The moment I saw you” (DN)  

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

PM, (TS)

MH, 02-03-14, 24:56,

WITF-FM, 20-May-1975

KWAX-FM, 16-Mar-2003

KIPO-16-Feb-2006

KALW 24-Feb-2006

KWAX 25-Feb-2006

25:12, 23640, S

 

G

 

 

27-Nov-1973

    S24e09

    RT #309

    ABC #280
  • Vocabularies: ecumenical, Gregory powder, belomancy, snip snap snorum
  • Insults:Sidney Smith of Macaulay, Charles Lamb of Coleridge, G. K. Chesterton of Thomas Hardy, Disraeli of Gladstone  
  • Word differences: easy / simple, rich / wealthy, great / large, clever / intelligent
  • “Pirates of Penzance” (DN) / “He who hesitates is lost”  (FM)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

PM, [TS]

MH, 02-03-21, 24:58
WITF-FM, 27-May-1975
WOI-FM, 22-Mar-2003
KALW-FM, 10-Oct-2003
KIPO-23-Feb-2006
KALW 24-Feb-2006
KWAX 04-Mar-2006
25:11, 23673, S

 

G

 

 

04-Dec-1973

    S24e10
    RT #310

    ABC #281
  • Vocabularies: hallelujah, charisma, egregious, spatterdash
  • Definitions: Dr. Johnson of a patron, Chesterton of a joke, George Bernard Shaw of assassination, Charles Lamb of puns
  • Origins: bean feast, lotus eater
  • “GoodbyeMr. Chips” (FM) / “A Time to be born and a time to die” (DN)  

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

PM, [TS]

MH, 02-03-28 24:51

--

KWAX-FM, 29-Mar-2003

25:00, 17588, S

 

G

 

 

11-Dec-1973

    S24e11

    RT #311

    ABC #382
  • Vocabularies: quinsy, moratorium, orrery, analgesic
  • Remarkable remarks: Napier capturing Sind, Clive in parliamentary inquiry, Philip Sydney in battle, Isaac Newton to his dog
  • Origins: up the spout, skidaddle
  • “Comingevents cast their shadows before” (DN) / “A jug of wine, a loaf of bread, and thou” (FM)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

PM, [TS]

MH, 02-04-04, 24:54

KWAX-FM, 05-Apr-2003 KIPO 02-Mar-2006

KALW 10-Mar-2006

KWAX 11-Mar-2006

25:06, 23536,, S

 

G

 

 

18-Dec-1973

    S24e12

    RT #312

    ABC #383
  • Vocabularies: mnemonic, Parkinson’s Law, quintessence, gerrymander
  • Unfinished: beware of all enterprises that require…, the mass of men live lives of …, cauliflower is nothing but…, a man cannot have a pure mind who…
  • Origins and derivations: juggernaut, why should a red herrings be a fox’s friend
  • “Alons,enfants de la patrie, …” (FM) / “The female of the species is more deadly than the male” (DN)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

PM, [TS]

KWAX-FM, 13-Apr-2003 KIPO 09-Mar-2006

KALW 17-Mar-2006

KWAX 18-Mar-2006

25:10, 23609, S

 

G

 

 

25-Dec-1973

    S24e13

    RT  #313

    ABC #384
  • Vocabularies: pragmatic, quasar, shibboleth, syndrome
  • Origins and derivations: lackadaisical, manure
  • Differences: stand at ease/stand easy, perl/plain, AC/DC, organdy/tulle
  • “Shipsthat pass in the night” (DN) / “There is no fire without some smoke” (FM)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

PM, [TS]

MH, 02-04-18, 24:56

KWAX-FM, 19-Apr-2003 KIPO 16-Mar-2006

KALW 24-Mar-2006

KWAX 25-Mar-2006

25:03, 23500, S

 

G

 

 

27-Dec-1973

    S24eSP

    Special

My Word! It’s My Music!

DP, FM, ASJ, DN and Dennis Franklyn, Ian Wallace

JL and Steve Race

PM, [TS]

 

 

M

 

 

01-Oct-1974

S25e01

RT #314

ABC #385
  • Vocubularies: tintinnabulation, obloquy, throe, chimera
  • Origins and Derivations: fly in the ointment, tabby cat, rain cats and dogs, pandemonium
  • Unwanted Claims to Fame: Dr. Crippen, William Huskerson MP, Frederick Louis son of George II, Thomas Montague 4th Earl of Salisbury“
  • April in Paris”(DN) / “The more haste the less speed” (FM)  

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

PM, [TS]

MH, 02-04-25

KWAX-FM, 26-Apr-2003

KIPO 23-Mar-2006

KALW 31-Mar-2006

KWAX 01-Apr-2006

27:13, 25529, S

 

G

 

 

08-Oct-1974[2]

S25e02

RT #315

ABC #286
  • Vocabularies: incubus, supererogation, machination, fustian
  • Derivations: Cammiknickers, penicillin, schemozzle, tam o’shanter
  • Technical terms: V2 rotate, oyer terminer, finish a rabbet with a badger, labiator labia superiores nasae
  • “I wouldn’t leave my little wooden hut for you” (FM) / “He who hesitates is lost” (DN)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

PM, (TS)

DmP, 00-04-01

MH, 02-05-02, 27:04

KWAX-FM, 03-May-2003

KIPO 30-Mar-2006

KALW 07-Apr-2006

KWAX 08-Apr-2006

27:16, 25567, S

 

G

 

 

    15-Oct-1974

S25e03

RT #316

ABC #287
  • Vocabularies: Bolus, Gibbous, Horripilation, Soroptimist
  • Parliamentary Invective: Daniel O’Connell/Robert Peel, Disraeli/Palmerston, Lloyd George/Chamberlain, Lord Salisbury/Randolph Churchill the Elder
  • Unlikely Connections: Out Of Work, Trollope And Pillar Box, Both Had A Wooden Leg, Died Of Laughter Seeing An Ass Eat A Plate Of Figs
  • “You Can’t Have Your Cake And Eat It Too” (DN) / “Here We Come Gathering Nuts In May On A Cold And Frosty Morning” (FM)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

PM, (TS)

DmP, 00-04-08

MH, 02-05-09, 27:02

KWAX-FM, 10-May-2003

KIPO 30-Mar-2006

KALW 14-Apr-2006

KWAX 15-Apr-2006

27:14, 25533, S

 

G

 

 

    22-Oct-1974

S25e04

RT #317

ABC #288
  • Vocabularies: Macabre, jobation, fiasco, fontanelle
  • Pros/Cons of womenkind: Lord Byron, Joseph Conrad, Ambrose Bierce, Dr. Johnson
  • Origins and derivations: adams apple, paraphenalia, shillyshally, to take a dekko
  • “A snapper up of unconsidered trifles” (FM) / “To innovate is not to reform” (DN)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

PM, (TS)

MH, 02-05-16, 27:06, M

KWAX-FM, 17-May-2003 KIPO 13-Apr-2006

KALW 21-Apr-2006

KWAX 22-Apr-2006

27:16, 25565, S,

 

G

 

 

    29-Oct-1974

S25e05

RT #318

ABC #289
  • Vocabularies: Saturnalia, Innumerate, Inchoate, Nephelococcitia
  • Confessions: Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, George Bernard Shaw, Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Origins: you can whistle for it, the fourth estate, seventh heaven, abracadabra
  • “Damn With Faint Praise” (DN) Doom With Quaint Sprays /  “Ah Sweet Mystery Of Life At Last I’ve Found You” (FM) Ah Sweet Mr. Ray Of Leith At Last I’ve Phoned You  

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

PM, (TS)

DmP, 00-04-22

MH, 02-05-23,

KIPO 05-May-2006

KALW --

KWAX 29-Apr-2006

27:20, 25627, S

 

G

 

 

05-Nov-1974

S25e06

RT #319

ABC #290
  • Vocabularies: Recherche, schizophrenic, saturnine, surrogate
  • Literary clues: Goldsmith, Dickens, Sterne, Mary Shelley
  • Difficult pronouncements: Thurber, Sam Goldwyn, Benchley, Fidel Castro
  • “The game is up” (FM) / “A nightingale in the sycamore” (DN)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

PM, (TS)

MH, 02-05-30

KWAX-FM, 31-May-2003 KIPO 27-Apr-2006

KALW --

KWAX 07-May-2006

27:17, 25594, S

 

G

 

 

12-Nov-1974

S25e07

RT #320

ABC #291
  • Vocabularies: supercilious, eukase, sesquipedalian, dialectic
  • Poetry: we buried him darkly, a flask of wine a book of verse and thou, and chill with early showers, the very houses seem asleep
  • International Dishes
  • “An Infinite Capacity For Taking Pains” (DN) /  “Hail To Thee Blythe Spirit, Bird Thou Never Wirt” (FM)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

PM, (TS)

DmP, 00-04-29

MH, 02-06-06

KWAX-FM, 07-Jun-2003

KIPO 04-May-2006

KALW --

KWAX 13-May-2006

27:17, 25585, S

 

G

 

 

19-Nov-1974

S25e08

RT #321

ABC #292
  • Vocabularies: titubant, psychosomatic, wowser, scrim
  • Origins and derivations: down in the dumps, fan mail, to gird up one’s loins, marzipan
  • Household hints: handkerchiefs smelling like violets, pincushion, earwig trap, keeping flying insects away
  • “Chacuna son gout” (FM) / “Nothing succeeds like success” (DN)  

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

PM, (TS)

MH, 02-06-13

KWAX-FM, 14-Jun-2003

KIPO 11-May-2006

KALW 19-May-2006

KWAX 20-May-2006

27:13, 25521, S

 

G

 

 

26-Nov-1974

S25e09

RT #322

ABC #293
  • Vocabularies: turpitude, beeswing, limbo, hubris
  • Differences: sardonic/ironic, alligator/crocodile, tonsils/adenoids, pyknic/aesthenic
  • Common surnames: Chapman, Pettigrew, Challoner, Turnbull
  • “How are the mighty fallen” (DN) /  “A policeman’s lot is not a happy one” (FM)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

PM, (TS)

MH, 02-06-20

KWAX-FM, 21-Jun-2003

KIPO 18-May-2006

KALW 26-May-2006

KWAX 27-May-2006

27:12, 25515, S

 

G

 

 

03-Dec-1974

S25e10

RT #323

ABC #294
  • Vocabularies: Homophone, casuistry, ineffable, idiosyncrasy
  • American aphorisms: Calvin Coolidge, James Thurber, Mark Twain, Henry Ford I
  • Vocational verbs: to oscultate/phlebotomize/ marsupialize, to reach/gyve/veer, to traverse/ confess and avoid/pray attailies. to block out/ black out/buck and wing
  • “Kindhearts are more than coronets” (FM) / “One man’s meat is another man’s poison” (DN)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

PM, [TS]

MH, 02-06-27

KWAX-FM, 28-Jun-2003

KIPO 25-May-2006

KALW 02-Jun-2006

KWAX 03-Jun-2006

27:14, 25541, S

 

G

 

 

10-Dec-1974

S25e11

RT #324

ABC #295
  • Vocabularies: Bumble Puppy, placebo, ichneumon, kismet
  • Origins and derivations: apple pie bed, under the auspices of, bowler hat, ragtime
  • Misquotations: mountain to Mohammed, first catch your hare, a poor thing sir, here we go gathering nuts in May
  • “Castthy bread upon the waters” (DN) /  “A thing of beauty is a joy forever” (FM)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

PM, [TS]

MH, 02-07-04

WOI-FM, 29-Jun-2003

KIPO 01-Jun-2006

KALW 09-Jun-2006

KWAX 10-Jun-2006

27:15, 25551, S

 

G

 

 

17-Dec-1974

S25e12

RT #325

ABC #296
  • Vocabularies: Esoteric, kickshaw, nugatory, parvenue
  • Distinctive definitions: atheist, communist, fanatic, a baby
  • Differences: tactics/strategy, china/porcelain, hip/haw, hay/straw
  • “Never,never, never, never, never” (FM) / “Take a pair of sparkling eyes” (DN)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

PM, [TS]

MH, 02-07-11

KWAX-FM, 12-Jul-2003

KIPO 08-Jun-2006

KALW 16-Jun-2006

KWAX 17-Jun-2006

27:15, 25552, S

 

G

 

 

24-Dec-1974

S25e13

RT #326

ABC #297
  • Vocabularies: miasma, empathy, hegemony, iddy-umpty
  • Comparisons are odorous, I own the soft impeachment, Them’s my sentiments, when found make a note of it
  • Household hints: how to clean a bowler hat, a compress of abscess or carbuncle, how to renovate a tired umbrella, find out a leak of sewer gas
  • “I’m dreaming of a white Christmas” (DN) / “Beggars cannot be choosers” (FM)  

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

PM, [TS]

ABC, 2002-Dec-26/25

KWAX-FM, 26-Jul-2003

KIPO 22-Jun-2006

KALW 30-Jun-2006

KWAX 01-Jul-2006

27:17, 25587, S

 

G

 

 

30-Sep-1975

Series 26 (1975)

S26e01

RT #327

ABC #298
  • Vocabularies: defenestration,  cuckoo spit, crass, chiaroscouro
  • Odd Man Out: teetotalers, places in Australia, women, blood types
  • Paradoxical Pronouncements: Dr. Spooner, WS Gilbert, Logan Thistle-Smith, Sidney Smith
  •  
     
    “Get thee behind me, Satan” (FM) / “The triumph of mind over matter” (DN)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

PM, TS

ABC 2002-07-18

KWAX-FM, 19-Jul-2003

KIPO 15-Jun-2006

KALW 23-Jun-2006

KWAX 25-Jun-2006

27:16, 25569, S

 

G

 

 

07-Oct-1975

S26e02

RT #328

ABC #299

Society of Electronic and Radio Technicians, 10th Anniversary

  • Vocabularies: Bijou, holocaust, homarine, majuscule
  • Something in Common: marsupials, Proust’s work, 18th century wigs, words to give attractive shapes to the lips
  • Elementary radio technology: tweeter/woofer, flutter / wow, male XLR plug/female XLR plug, bassy/boomy
  • “Where the blue of the night meets the gold of the day” (DN) / “Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all” (FM)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

PM, TS

MH, 02-07-25

KWAX-FM, 02-Aug-2003

KIPO 29-Jun-2006

KALW 07-Jul-2006

KWAX 08-Jul-2006

27:16, 25569, S

 

G

 

 

14-Oct-1975

S26e03

RT #329

ABC #300
  • Vocabularies: Gallivant, Mellifluous, Cosmetic, Bombilious
  • Quotations: Lord Chesterfield, Ecclesiastes 7:6, Johnson, Hazard
  • Origins: By And Large, Salmonella Poisoning, Tycoon, Pig Iron
  • “There Are Fairies At The Bottom Of Our Garden” (FM) / “Once I Had A Secret Love” (DN)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

PM, TS

DmP, 00-06-25

MH, 02-08-01

KWAX-FM, 09-Aug-2003

KIPO 06-Jul-2006

KALW 14-Jul-2006

KWAX 15-Jul-2006

27:17, 25579, S

 

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21-Oct-1975

S26e04

RT #330

ABC #301
  • Vocabularies: Plethora, gravamen, cynosure, maelstrom
  • True confessions: Dale Carnegie, Hitler, von Ribbentrop, Mary Lloyd
  • Origins and Derivations: stevedore, buy a pig in a poke, shambles, denim
  • “Screw your courage to the sticking place” (DN) / “There’s no business like show business” (FM)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

PM, TS

MH, 02-08-08

KWAX-FM, 16-Aug-2003

KIPO 13-Jul-2006

KALW 21-Jul-2006

KWAX 22-Jul-2006

27:18, 25605, S

 

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28-Oct-1975

S26e05

RT #331

ABC #302

Conversatione, University of London:

  • Vocabularies: mumbo jumbo, phillumenist, nictitate, lanolin
  • Complete the stanza: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day, far from the madding’s crowd, she walks in beauty in the night, glories of our blood and state
  • Origins and derivations: buffoon, to strip to the buff, debauchery, flabbergasted
  • “You may fool all of the people some of the time, …” (FM) / “Falstaff shall die of a sweat” (DN)

DP-FM, DN-KW

JL

PM, TS

MH, 02-08-15

KWAX-FM, 23-Aug-2003

KIPO 20-Jul-2006

KALW 28-Jul-2006

KWAX 29-Jul-2006

27:17, 25579, S

 

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04-Nov-1975

S26e06

RT #332

ABC #303

  • Vocabularies: brouhaha, gist, spatter dash, chasuble
  • Mistakes: Jane Austen died before Pepys’ diaries were published, no penguin at the North Pole, meteoric rise?, Nelson’s hands
  • Mona Lisa: which direction is she turned, predominant colour of her dress, arrangement of her hands, what’s the background
  • “The historian is a prophet looking backwards” (DN) / “Now is the winter of our discontent” (FM)

DP-FM, ASJ-DN

JL

PM, TS

MH, 02-08-22

KWAX-FM, 30-Aug-2003

KIPO 27-Jul-2006

KALW 28-Jul-2006

KWAX 05-Aug-2006

27:11, 25500, S

 

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11-Nov-1975

S26e07

RT #333

ABC #304
  • Vocabularies: katydid, imbroglio, shawm, crinkum-crankum
  • Drinks:Washington Irving, Richard Bentley, H.L. Mencken, Oscar Wilde
  • Origins and Derivations: a seersucker suit, paraffin, haven’t a clue, gooseberry fool
  • “Of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings” (FM) / “More in sorrow than in anger” (DN)
    		•

    DP-FM, ASJ-DN

    JL

    PM, TS

    DmP, 2000-07-22

    MH, 02-08-29

    KWAX-FM, 06-Sep-2003

    KIPO 03-Aug-2006

    KALW 11-Aug-2006

    KWAX 12-Aug-2006

    27:15, 25557, S

     

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    18-Nov-1973

    S26e08

    RT #334

    ABC #305
    • Vocabularies: formification, hebetude, hebdomadary, doch-an-doris
    • Thoughts about life: O. Henry, Henry Wadworth Longfellow, Samuel Butler, Tom Brown’s Schooldays
    • Origins and Derivations: hoity toity, by hook or by crook, a mangle worzle, precocious
    • Household hints: stopping a rooster crowing, taking the shine out of trousers, preventing milk turning from thundering, clearing bad water
    • Proverbially speaking: if my aunt wore a top hat she’d be my uncle, if my shirt knew my design I’d burn it, everything hath an end and a pudding hath two, God is better pleased with adverbs than with nouns

    DP-JW, ASJ-DN

    JL

    PM, TS

    ABC 02-09-05/4, 27:05

    DmP 2000-07-29

    KWAX-FM, 13-Sep-2003

    KIPO 10-Aug-2006

    KALW 18-Aug-2006

    KWAX 20-Aug-2006

    27:15, 25552, S

     

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    25-Nov-1975

    S26e09

    RT #335

    ABC #306
    • Vocabularies: glitch, picaresque, funicular, scintilla
    • Alleged National Characteristics: French/Spanish, Irish, English, Russian
    • Origins and Derivations: plimsols, halibut, all according to cocker, dandelion
    • “The game is not worth the candle” (FM) / “I think, therefore I am” (DN)

    DP-FM, ASJ-DN

    JL

    PM, TS

    ABC 02-09-12/11

    DmP, 2000-08-05

    KWAX-FM, 20-Sep-2003

    KIPO 17-Aug-2006

    KALW 25-Aug-2006

    KWAX 27-Aug-2006

    27:18, 25600,.S

     

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    02-Dec-1975

    S26e10

    RT #336

    ABC #307
    • Vocabularies: detritus, simony, carapace, cud
    • Craftsmen’s necessaries: charcoal maker, blacksmith, wheelwright, thatcher
    • Verses: Masefield’s “Sea Fever”, Arthur Hugh Clough, Tennyson “The Princess”, Longfellow “A Psalm of Life”
    • “Is there honey still for tea?” (DN) / “Truth is stranger than fiction” (FM)

    DP-FM, ASJ-DN

    JL

    PM, TS

    ABC, 02-09-19/20

    DmP, 2000-08-12

    KIPO 24-Aug-2006

    KALW 01-Sep-2006

    KWAX 02-Sep-2006

    27:17, 25579, S

     

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    09-Dec-1975

    S26e11

    RT #337

    ABC #308
    • Vocabularies: flummery, perfidy, friable, bucolic
    • Differences: frankincense and myrrh, nymph and dryad, hocus pocus and hokey pokey, horrid and horrible
    • Opposites: distaff and spear, obverse and reverse, cameo and intaglio, cantoris and deacanae
    • “The Passing of the Third Floor Back” (FM) /  “Beggars Can’t Be Choosers” (DN)

    DP-FM, ASJ-DN

    JL

    PM, TS

    ABC, 02-09-26/25

    --

    DmP, 00-08-19

    26:57, 6320, good

    --

    KWAX-FM, 04-Oct-2003

    27:07, 25436, S

     

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    16-Dec-1975

    S26e12

    RT #338

    ABC #309
    • Vocabularies: blatherskite, pullulation, funambulist, Pediculous
    • Nursery Rhymes: Jack And Jill, Mary Had A Little Lamb, Goosy Goosy Gander, Ding Dong Bell Pussy’s In The Well
    • Origins: An Old Bag, A Free Lance, A Jot Or Tittle, Right as a Trivet
    • “The Mass Of Men Lead Lives Of Quiet Desperation” (DN) /  “How Doth The Little Busy Bee Improve Each Shining Hour” (FM)

    DP-FM, ASJ-DN

    JL

    PM, TS

    ABC, 02-10-03/04

    DmP, 00-08-27

    KIPO-FM, 02-Oct-2003

    KWAX-FM, 11-Oct-2003

    KWAX-FM, 09-Sep-2006

    27:12, 25509, S

     

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    23-Dec-1975

    S26e13

    RT #339

    ABC #310
    • Vocabularies: loblolly, lipogram, caucus, pratfall
    • Origins and derivations: white elephant, to take someone down a peg or two, cooee, cockney
    • Basic ingredients: foo yong hai, roquefort cheese, blinis, bombay duck
    • “A penny plain and tuppence coloured” (FM) / “Tis better to have loved and lost” (DN)

    DP-FM, ASJ-DN

    JL

    PM, TS

    ABC, 02-10-17/16, 27:10

    WBUR-FM, 2002-Nov-03

    KIPO-FM, 16-Oct-2003

    KWAX-FM, 25-Oct-2003

    KALW-FM, 11-Oct-2003

    KWAX-FM, 23-Sep-2006

    27:13, 25560, S

     

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    30-Dec-1975

    S26e14

    RT #340

    ABC #311
    • Vocabularies: pantisocracy, macrobiotic, calibogus, phthisis
    • Anachronisms: safety match, The Reverend, numbered houses, Miss Charlotte Brontë
    • Origins: the upper crust, Pakistan, mummy, plain as a pikestaff
    • Methodology: carving a shoulder of lamb, applying a half nelson, locating the Pole Star, tying a bowline
    • Attenuated Aphorisms: the cook was a good cook, three may keep a secret, the English country gentleman in full pursuit of a fox, while I cannot be regarded as a pillar I must be regarded as a buttress of the church

    DP-FM, ASJ-JW

    JL

    PM, TS

    ABC, 02-10-10/09, 27:05

    DmP, 00-09-03, 27:01

    KALW-FM, 17-Oct-2003

    KWAX-FM, 18-Oct-2003

    KIPO-FM, 14-Sep-2003

    KALW-FM, 22-Sep-2006

    KWAX-FM, 30-Sep-2006

    27:14, 25540, S

     

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    05-Oct-1976

    Series 27 (1976)

    S27e01

    RT #341

    ABC #312
    • Vocabularies: pizzazz, girlcott, kreep, gigabit
    • Things in common: Tautological phrases, four freedoms, symptoms of Vitamin B-1 deficiency, all red
    • Shakespearean fragments: Macbeth, Hamlet, Merchant of Venice, Richard II
    • Differences: boondoggle / hornswoggle, impromptu / ex tempore, big banger / steady stater, jimjams / jitters
    • “I’m going to see a man about a dog” (FM) / “Was this the face that launched a thousand ships” (DN)

    DP-FM, ASJ-DN

    JL

    PM, TS

    DmP, 00-09-16, 27:04

    ABC, 2002-Oct-24/23

    KALW-FM, 31-Oct-2003

    KWAX-FM, 02-Nov-2003

    KIPO-FM, 28-Sep-2003

    KALW-FM, 06-Oct-2006

    KWAX-FM, 07-Oct-2006

    27:14, 25538, S

     

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    12-Oct-1976

    S27e02

    RT  #342

    ABC #312
    • Vocabularies: camp, ethos, kitsch, avant garde
    • National stereotypes: nation of actors (Italy), women govern it (US), they instinctively admire a man without talent but is modest about it (English), a press campaign of four months will convince them of any idiocy (Germany)
    • Differences: derisive/derisory, illegible/unreadable, meticulous/pernickity, delusion/illusion
    • Surnames: Baynes, Phillips, Frobisher, Wagstaff
    • “’Til the sands of the deserts grow cold” (DN) / “And so to bed” (FM)

    DP-FM, ASJ-DN

    JL

    PM, TS

    ABC, 2002-Oct-31/30

    KALW-FM, 07-Nov-2003

    KWAX-FM, 08-Nov-2003

    KALW-FM, 07-Oct-2006

    KWAX-FM, 14-Oct-2006

    27:16, 25578, S

     

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    19-Oct-1976

    S27e03

    RT  #343

    ABC #313
    • Vocabularies: pogonophobia, musophobia, clinophobia, triskidecaphobia, gymnophobia, aulophobia, parthenophobia, phobophobia
    • Emergencies: dog fight between a fox terrier and Afghan hound, a child has an attack of croupe, chewing gum on the front of a silk shirt, dancing partner gets a cramp down one leg
    • Australian terms: a duck’s dinner, to bat the breeze, go see Mrs. Murray, amen snorter
    • “We lost our little Hannah in a very painful manner” / “Every prospect pleases, only man is vile” (DN)

    DP-FM, ASJ-DN

    JL

    PM, TS

    ABC, 2002-Nov-07/06

    KIPO-FM, 12-Oct-2006

    KALW-FM, 20-Oct-2006

    KWAX-FM, 21-Oct-2006

    27:14, 25540, S

    Frank mentions his Irreverent Guide to Social History book.

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    26-Oct-1976

    S27e04

    RT #344

    ABC #314
    • Vocabularies: anabolic, cryogenic, bionic, hydroponic
    • Contrived commentaries: organ recital, a swan, a catherine wheel, a hammock
    • Etymological imports: orangutan, subpoena, harakiri, negligee
    • “A little touch of Harry in the night” (DN) / “None but the brave deserves the fair” (FM)

    DP-FM, ASJ-DN

    JL

    PM, TS

    CE, 010112

    ABC, 2002-Nov-14/13

    KIPO-FM, 19-Oct-2006

    KALW-FM, 27-Oct-2006

    KWAX-FM, 28-Oct-2006

    27:15, 25560, S

     

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    02-Nov-1976

    S27e05

    RT #345

    ABC #315
    • Vocabularies: chauvinism, micawberism, momism, hedonism
    • Origins and derivations: a fig for you sir, a question mark, a square person, a stickler over trifles
    • Coin a word: horserubbish/macinsop, ripe person, hand signal for “I’m Sorry”/charisn’tma, scorbe de beesties
    • “Hullo, hullo, who’s your lady friend” (FM) / “Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains” (DN)

    DP-FM, ASJ-DN

    JL

    PM, TS

    ABC, 2002-Nov-21/20

    KALW-FM, 05-Dec-2003

    KWAX-FM, 29-Nov-2003

    KIPO-FM, 26-Oct-2006

    KALW-FM, 03-Nov-2006

    KWAX-FM, 04-Nov-2006

    27:16, 25564, S

     

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    09-Nov-1976

    S27e06

    RT #346

    ABC #316
    • Latinisms: ad hoc, apriori, prima facie, quid pro quo
    • Odd Man Out: stately, Longbourne, quinquireme, pistol
    • Poets: Tennyson, Keats, Francis Thompson, Rupert Brooke
    • “Honi soi qui mal e pense” (DN) / “Silent upon a peak in Darien” (FM)

    DP-FM, ASJ-DN

    JL

    PM, TS

    KALW-FM, 28-Nov-2003

    KWAX-FM, 06-Dec-2003

    KIPO-FM, 02-Nov-2006

    KALW-FM, 10-Nov-2006

    KWAX-FM, 11-Nov-2006

    27:10, 25472, S

     

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    16-Nov-1976

    S27e07

    RT #347

    ABC #317
    • Vocabularies: kitkat, bloom, scumble, bravura
    • In Common: chess opening gambits, moths, pigeons, tempraments or humours
    • Unlikely Connections: Churchill novels, anagram, Ice Cream couldn’t be sold on Sunday, both written by Carroll/Dodson
    • “To travel hopefully is better than to arrive” (FM)  / “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet” (DN)

    DP-FM, ASJ-DN

    JL

    PM, TS

    DmP, 00-10-21

    ABC, 2002-Nov-28/27

    KIPO-FM, 09-Nov-2006

    KALW-FM, 17-Nov-2006

    KWAX-FM, 18-Nov-2006

    26:55, 25245, S

     

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    23-Nov-1976

    S27e08

    RT #348

    ABC #318
    • Vocabularies: absquatulate, nidify, sniggle, transmogrify
    • Beliefs: nation of shopkeepers, Cinderella’s glass slippers, won on the playing fields of Eton, Eve gave Adam an apple
    • Literate Quotations: Somerset Maugham, Samuel Johnson, William Henry, Duke of Gloucester, Anthony Trollope
    • “If I were a bell I’d be ringing” (DN) / “Where are the snows of yesteryear” (FM)

    DP-FM, ASJ-DN

    JL

    PM, TS

    ABC, 2002-Dec-05/04

    KIPO-FM, 16-Nov-2006

    KALW-FM, 24-Nov-2006

    KWAX-FM, 25-Nov-2006

    27:09,  25469, S

     

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    30-Nov-1976

    S27e09

    RT #349

    ABC #319
    • Vocabularies: embolism, placebo, hematoma, tachycardia
    • Occupational terms: bricklaying, upholstery, audio engineering, viticulture
    • Incomplete quotations: Pope, Goldsmith, Kipling, Shakespeare
    • “The unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable” (FM) / “A storm in a teacup” (DN)

    DP-FM, ASJ-DN

    JL

    PM, TS

    DmP, 00-11-04

    ABC, 2002-Dec-12/11

    KIPO-FM, 23-Nov-2006

    KALW-FM, 01-Dec-2006

    KWAX-FM, 02-Dec-2006

    27:14, 25546, S

     

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    07-Dec-1976

    S27e10

    RT #350

    ABC #320
    • Vocabularies: rife, eponymous, froward, pusillanimous
    • Odd Man Out: wading birds, absolute terms, dog sounds in other languages, irregular plurals
    • Recitations: Walter Scott, Shelley, Marvel, Gray
    • “I’d gladly go from rags to riches” (DN) / “From the sublime to the ridiculous” (FM)

    DP-FM, ASJ-DN

    JL

    PM, TS

    DmP, 00-11-11, 27:01

    KIPO-FM, 30-Nov-2006

    KALW-FM, 08-Dec-2006

    KWAX-FM, 09-Dec-2006

    27:12, 25511, S

     

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    14-Dec-1976

    S27e11

    RT #351

    ABC #322
    • Vocabularies: lucubration, appoception, polemics, sophistry
    • Corrections: poor Yorick, money is the root of all evil, he that agrees against his will, when Greek meets Greek
    • Tramps’ terminology: cackleberry, sling the guff, spend the night with Mrs. Greenfield, hay-burner
    •    “There’s a breathless hush in the close tonight” (FM) / “Two’s company, three’s a crowd” (DN)

    DP-FM, ASJ-DN

    JL

    PM, TS

    DmP, 00-11-18, 27:00

    ABC, 2003-Jan-02, 27:01

    KIPO-FM, 07-Dec-2006

    KALW-FM, 15-Dec-2006

    KWAX-FM, 16-Dec-2006

    27:10, 25476, S

     

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    21-Dec-1976

    S27e12

    RT #352

    ABC#323
    • Vocabularies: proletensiousness, wiglomeration, insinuendo, beerage
    • Idiosyncratic poetry: Tennyson, Milton, Swinburne, Keats
    • Origins: your name is mud, teetotal, like billy-o, bandy words
    • “What shall we do with a drunken sailor” (DN) / “Fools who came to scoff remained to pray” (FM) ’

    DP-FM, ASJ-DN

    JL

    PM, TS

    DmP, 00-11-25, 26:56

    KIPO-FM, 14-Dec-2006

    KALW-FM, 22-Dec-2006

    KWAX-FM, 23-Dec-2006

    27:12, 25510, S

     

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    28-Dec-1976

    “in winter”

    S27e13

    RT #353

    ABC#324
    • Vocabularies: ufologist, zilch, unk unks, cosmonette
    • Quotations About: Shakespeare, Whistler, Edward VII, Palmerston
    • Solecisms
    • “If you have tears prepare to shed them now” (FM) / “A soft answer turneth away wrath” (DN)

    DP-FM, ASJ-DN

    JL

    PM, TS

    DmP, 00-12-02, 27:01

    ABC, 2003-Jan-09/08

    KIPO-FM, 28-Dec-2006

    KALW-FM, 04-Jan-2007

    KWAX-FM, 05-Jan-2007

    27:14, 25538, S

     

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    05-Oct-1977

    Series 28 (1977)

    S28e01

    RT #354

    ABC #325
    • Vocabularies: peripatetic, holocaust, rodomontade, panegyric
    • Pairings: hungry generations, livelier iris, duchess faced horse, scrannel pipes
    • Malicious misogynisms: Samuel Butler, Byron, Chesterfield, H.L. Mencken
    • Double definitions: tabernacle, exaltation, schooner, thrush
    • “Any old iron” (FM) / “What you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts” (DN)

    DP-FM, ASJ-DN

    JL

    PM, TS

    CE/MH, DmP, 000923

    ABC, 2003-01-16/15

    KIPO-FM, 04-Jan-2007

    KALW-FM, 12-Jan-2007

    KWAX-FM, 13-Jan-2007

    27:12, 25512, S

     

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    12-Oct-1977

    S28e02

    RT #355

    ABC #326
    • Vocabularies: imbroglio, simulacrum, parbuckle, nexus
    • Second lines: pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, the valiant never taste of death but once, thaw and resolve itself into a dew, and tell sad stories of the death of kings
    • Differences: jejune/jejunum, jurisdiction/jurisprudence, talent/genius, piquancy/pungency
    • Literary children: John and Betty (Gulliver); Wendy, John and Michael (); Jane, Elizabeth, Catherine, Lydia (Bennett); James, Frank, …,Louisa, Martha (Crowly)
    • “Hail to the blithe spirit, bird thou never wirt” (DN) / “More in sorrow than in anger” (FM)

    DP-FM, ASJ-DN

    JL

    PM, TS

    ABC, 23/22-Jan-2003

    KIPO-FM, 11-Jan-2007

    KALW-FM, 19-Jan-2007

    KWAX-FM, 20-Jan-2007

    27:14, 25534, S

     

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    19-Oct-1977

    S28e03

    RT #356

    ABC #327

    ·          Vocabularies: ambivalence, vestigial, paranoid, ciceroni

    ·          Words in Common: plant diseases, Alice in Wonderland’s arithemetic operators, book titles taken from Shakespeare, slang for money

    ·          Potted poetry: star/clear/moaning/sea, prison / iron / innocent/hermitage, froth/stone/trouble/courage, strife /sober/vale/tenor

    ·          “A rag and a bone and a hank of hair” (FM) / “We who are about to die salute thee” (DN)

    DP-FM, ASJ-DN

    JL

    PM, TS

    ABC, 30/29-Jan-2003

    KIPO-FM, 18-Jan-2007

    KALW-FM, 26-Jan-2007

    KWAX-FM, 27-Jan-2007

    27:15, 25554, S

     

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    26-Oct-1977

    S28e04

    RT #357

    ABC #328
    • Vocabularies: synoptic, paradigm, synectechy, ethnic
    • Odd Man Out: containers of liquids, coffees, drowning victims, boxing classes
    • Unusual definitions: Mistinguette, George Bernard Shaw, Ambrose Bierce, William Haslet
    • Adjectival antonyms: chap-fallen, maleficent, catchpenny, lubberly
    • “East is east, and west is west and never the twain shall meet” (DN) / “The miner’s dream of home” (FM)

    DP-FM, ASJ-DN

    JL

    PM, TS

    DmP, 00-12-30

    ABC, 06/05-Feb-2003

    KIPO-FM, 25-Jan-2007

    KALW-FM, 02-Feb-2007

    KWAX-FM, 03-Feb-2007

    27:05, 25407, S

     

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    02-Nov-1977

    S28e05

    RT #358

    ABC --
    • Vocabularies: cabalistic, quincunx, banderbast, ferryage
    • Quotes: foolish consistency, anger makes dull men witty, host and guests, the man who is talking about being a gentleman never is one
    • Origins and Derivations: lumber room, sycophant, in a scrape, idiot
    • “All my possessions for a moment of time” (FM) / “Never underestimate the power of a woman” (DN)

    DP-FM, ASJ-DN

    JL

    PM, TS

    KIPO-FM, 01-Feb-2007

    KALW-FM, 09-Feb-2007

    KWAX-FM, 10-Feb-2007

    27:12, 25511, S

     

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    09-Nov-1977

    S28e06

    RT #359

    ABC --
    • Vocabularies: animadvert, nepenthe, growlery, dendrochronology
    • Elementary Explanations: aftershave lotion, jealousy, a joke, a hiccup
    • Latin cliches: deus ex machina, intego vitae, ehu fugaces, qui bono
    • “People who need people are the luckiest people in the world” (DN) / “The Girl I Left Behind Me” (FM)

    DP-FM, ASJ-DN

    JL

    PM, TS

    KIPO-FM, 08-Feb-2007

    KALW-FM, 16-Feb-2007

    KWAX-FM, 17-Feb-2007

    27:02, 25352, S

     

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    16-Nov-1977

    S28e07

    RT #360

    ABC #331
    • Vocabularies: gallimaufry, an ouch, quango, syzygy
    • Literary money: $1.87, 3000 ducats, 36,000 francs, 1000 guilders
    • Recorded poetry: Shelley “Adonais”, Wordsworth “Tintern Abbey”
    • “Between the devil and the deep blue sea” (FM) / “Splendor in the grass” (DN)

    DP-FM, ASJ-DN

    JL

    PM, TS

    ABC, 13/12-Feb-2003

    KIPO-FM, 15-Feb-2007

    KWAX-FM, 23-Feb-2007

    KWAX-FM, 24-Feb-2007

    27:05, 25405, S

     

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    23-Nov-1977

    S28e08

    RT #361

    ABC #332
    • Vocabularies: ecdysiast, drupe, embranglement, nuncheon
    • Bat an eyelid, coccyx, nineteen to the dozen, in cahoots with
    • Double definitions: gammon, gout, thwart, cannon
    • “He who hesitates is lost” (DN) / “Dirty British Coaster with a Salt Caked Smokestack” (FM) (included in collected stories)

    DP-FM, ASJ-DN

    JL

    PM, TS

    ABC, 20/19-Feb-2003

    KIPO-FM, 24-Feb-2007

    KALW-FM, 02-Mar-2007

    KWAX-FM, 03-Mar-2007

    27:10, 25481, S

     

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    30-Nov-1977

    S28e09

    RT #362

    ABC #333
    • Vocabularies: furbelow, behemoth, schadenfreude, gnomic
    • Definitions: Swift, Noel Coward, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Nietsche
    • Differences: rotund/oratund, sympathy/empathy, pathos / bathos, prolixity/verbosity
    • New similes for old: as cool as a cucumber, as poor as a church mouse, as slippery as an eel, as nervous as a kitten
    • “Too many cooks spoil the broth” (FM)/ “There’s many a slip twixt cup and lip” (DN)

    DP-FM, ASJ-DN

    JL

    PM, TS

    ABC, 27/26-Feb-2003

    KIPO-FM, 01-Mar-2007

    KALW-FM, 09-Mar-2007

    KWAX-FM, 10-Mar-2007

    27:05, 25397, S

     

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    07-Dec-1977

    S28e10

    RT #363

    ABC #334
    • Vocabularies: perjink(ity), farouche, purdonium, grommet
    • Things in Common: skateboarding, literary clergymen, too wonderful, eponyms
    • Poetry readings: Coleridge “Frost at Midnight”, Keats “Ode to Autmn”
    • Words with “P”: pneumatic, phantom, psalm, ptarmigan
    • “See what the boys in the back room will have” (DN) / “If music be the food of love, play on” (FM)

    DP-FM, ASJ-DN

    JL

    PM, TS

    KIPO-FM, 08-Mar-2007

    KALW-FM, 16-Mar-2007

    KWAX-FM, 17-Mar-2007

    27:06, 25415, S

     

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    14-Dec-1977

    S28e11

    RT #364

    ABC #335
    • Vocabularies: tatterdemalion, chicanery, pantograph, cacophony
    • Poetical triplets: Green eye of the yellow idol, Rupert Brooke, Romeo and Juliet, Idylls of the King
    • Origins and derivations: fascinating, backlog, tot up, deadline
    • Adjectival antonyms: hoity-toity, pernicious, nonchalant, brobdignagian
    • “There are fairies at the bottom of our garden” (FM) / “Distance lends enchantment” (DN)

    DP-FM, ASJ-DN

    JL

    PM, TS

    KIPO-FM, 15-Mar-2007

    KALW-FM, 23-Marr-2007

    KWAX-FM, 24-Mar-2007

    27:05, 25405, S

     

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    21-Dec-1977

    S28e12

    RT #365

    ABC #336
    • Vocabularies: gerrymander, insouciant, macaronic, interstice
    • Femmes Fatales: Zulaika Dobson, Helen of Troy, Irene Adler, Lady Macbeth
    • Poetical penultimates
    • Double definitions: humbug, quiver, maroon, litter
    • “At Christmas I no more desire a rose” (DN) / “Busy as a bee” (FM)

    DP-FM, ASJ-DN

    JL

    PM, TS

    ABC, 20/19-Mar-2003

    KIPO-FM, 08-Apr-2004

    KALW-16-Apr-2004

    KWAX-FM, 18-Apr-2004

    27:05, 25399, S

     

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    28-Dec-1977

    the last show with Jack Longland

    S28e13

    RT #366

    ABC #337
    • Vocabularies: incunabula, couvade, absquatulate, jobation
    • Poems: unofficial rose, double sway, little life, runcible spoon
    • Lonely Hearts
    • "A pun is the lowest form of wit” (FM) / “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper” (DN)

    DP-FM, ASJ-DN

    JL

    PM, TS

    KIPO-FM, 22-Mar-2007

    KALW-FM, 30-Mar-2007

    KWAX-FM, 31-Mar-2007

    27:03, 25360, S

     

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    27-Sep-1978

    Series 29 (1978)

    S29e01

    #367

     

    DP-FM, ASJ-DN

    JJN

    PM, TS

     

     

    M

     

     

    04-Oct-1978

    S29e02

    #368

     

    DP-FM, ASJ-DN

    JJN

    PM, TS

     

     

    M

     

     

    11-Oct-1978

    S29e03

    #369

     

    DP-FM,  Jacky Gillott-DN

    JJN

    PM, TS

     

     

    M

     

     

    18-Oct-1978

    S29e04

    #370

     

    DP-FM, ASJ-DN

    JJN

    PM, TS

     

     

    M

     

     

    25-Oct-1978

    S29e05

    #371

     

    DP-FM, ASJ-DN

    JJN

    PM, TS

     

     

    M

     

     

    01-Nov-1978

    S29e06

    #372

     

    DP-FM, ASJ-DN

    JJN

    PM, TS

     

     

    M

     

     

    08-Nov-1978

    S29e07

    #373

     

    DP-FM, ASJ-DN

    JJN

    PM, TS

     

     

    M

     

     

    15-Nov-1978

    S29e08

    #374

     

    DP-Barry Took, ASJ-DN

    JJN

    PM, TS

     

     

    M

     

     

    22-Nov-1978

    S29e09

    #375

     

    DP-FM, ASJ-DN

    JJN

    PM, TS

     

     

    M

     

     

    29-Nov-1978

    S29e10

    #376

     

    DP-FM, ASJ-DN

    JJN

    PM, TS

     

     

    M

     

     

    06-Dec-1978

    S29e11

    #377

     

    DP-FM, ASJ-DN

    JJN

    PM, TS

     

     

    M

     

     

    13-Dec-1978

    S29e12

    RT #378

    ABC #338
    • Vocabularies: Ptisan, sciamachy, homuncle, empirical
    • Poems: Nominative case, sunny Palestine, strange device, woodbine spices
    • Something in common: literary ladies married twice, four each, finches, people using pseudonyms
    • Double definitions: junket, swallow, sulky, sultana
    • “Tomorrow to fresh woods and pastures new” (DN) / “A source of innocent merriment” (FM)

    DP-FM, ASJ-DN

    JJN

    PM, TS

    DB, 26:31, good

    ABC, 27/26-Mar-2003

    KIPO-FM, 29-Mar-2007

    KALW-FM, 06-Apr-2007

    KWAX-FM, 08-Apr-2007

    26:56, 25256, S

     

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    20-Dec-1978

    S29e13

    RT #379

    ABC #339
    • Vocabularies: sparable, barbola, catenary, eclectic
    • Origins and Derivations: a nine-days wonder, abominable, as sure as eggs is eggs, a purple patch
    • Onygobhagist: a nail biter
    • Missed quotations:
    • “Maybe it’s because I’m a Londoner” (FM) / “Thanks for the memory” (DN)

    DP-FM, ASJ-DN

    JJN

    PM, TS

    ABC, 10/09-Apr-2003

    KIPO-FM, 05-Apr-2007

    KALW-FM, 13-Apr-2007

    KWAX-FM, 14-Apr-2007

    27:12, 25513, S

     

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    26-Sep-1979

    First show with AF?

    Series 30 (1979)

    S30e01

    RT #380

    ABC #340
    • Vocabularies: allopath, supererogation, nepenthic, blunge
    • Odd Man Out: monthly namesakes, moustaches, blues, things in Ireland
    • Literary Addition: 6+5+3=14, 5+12+20,000=20,017, 24+3+50,000,000=50,000,027, 15+9+15=39
    • What Comes Before (in Shakespeare)
    • Double definitions: carp, smack, kindle, consonant
    • “Oh for the touch of a vanished hand” (FM) / “You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink” (DN)

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    JJN

    PM, TS

    DB

    ABC, 17/16-Apr-2003

    KIPO-FM, 06-May-2004

    KALW-FM, 14-May-2004

    KWAX 22-Apr-2007

    27:11, 25494, S

     

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    03-Oct-1979

    S30e02

    RT #381

    ABC #341

    ·          Vocabularies: charleyhorse, somniloquy, beeswing, Godwottery

    ·          Bertie’s Aunt Agatha, Queen Victoria, La Belle Dame sans merci, Saki on Mrs. Packletides

    ·          Derivations: It’s not on, bogey in golf, deuce in tennis, spinnaker

    ·          Dramatic Dialogues: Sherlock Holmes and Inspector Gregory in “The Silver Blaze”, Major Pollock and Sybil Railton-Bell in “Separate Tables”

    ·          “As the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of a fool” (FM) / “Don’t try to bite off more than you can chew” (DN)

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    JJN

    PM, TS

    DB, 26:55, good

    ABC, 24/23-Apr-2003

    KIPO-FM, 13-May-2004

    KALW-FM, 21-May-2004

    KWAX-FM, 28-Apr-2007

    27:09, 25463, S

     

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    10-Oct-1979

    S30e03

    RT #382

    ABC #342
    • Vocabularies: cinerarium, bingle, antigropulos, infundibula
    • Unlikely connections: Major Wingfield/Wimbledon, Enoch Arden/William Crichton, a newt/an orange, Oliver Cromwell/Tom Sawyer
    • Differences: rare/scarce, perturb/disturb, to loose/to loosen, to bring/to fetch
    • One line at a time: Jonson’s “To Celia” (Drink to me only with thine eyes, …)
    • “I am monarch of all I survey” (FM) / “The stars and stripes forever” (DN)

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    JJN

    PM, TS

    DB, 26:38, good/fair,

    ABC, 01-May-2003

    KIPO-FM, 20-May-2004

    KALW-FM, 28-May-2004

    KWAX-FM, 05-May-2007

    27:05, 25392, S

     

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    17-Oct-1979

    S30e04

    RT #383

    ABC #343
    • Vocabularies: Pseudoscope, serinette, vilipend, pasquinade
    • But who were they: the Cambridge people, the Ancient Mariner’s shipmates, daffodils, lips
    • Something in common: fevers, wedding anniversaries, Dutch words, knots
    • Derivations: Iron Curtain, caricature, meringue, hooch
    • “Why so pale and wan, fond lover” (DN) / “Tess of the d’Urbervilles” (FM)

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    JJN

    PM, TS

    DB, 26:54

    ABC-CE, 08/09-May-2003

    KIPO-FM, 27-May-2004

    KALW-FM, 04-Jun-2004

    KWAX-FM, 12-May-2007

    27:02, 25358, S

     

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    24-Oct-1979

    S30e05

    RT #384

    ABC #344
    • Verbal vagaries: month silver spirit chimney, United States of America attaineth its cause Freedom (anagram), are we not drawn onward to new era (palindrome), uncomplimentary (all vowels backwards)
    • Origins: In cahoots with, swashbuckling, at one fell swoop, barmy
    • What Happened Next: Dickens, O. Henry, Shakespeare, Jane Eyre
    • Suffix: -oon, -wise, -ship, -age
    • “It’s a long way to Tipperary” (FM) /  “You can’t have your cake and eat it too” (DN)

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    JJN

    PM, TS

    DB, 26:46

    ABC, 15/14-May-2003

    KIPO-FM, 03-Jun-2004

    KALW-FM, 11-Jun-2004

    KWAX-FM, 19-May-2007

    27:03, 25374, S

     

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    31-Oct-1979

    R7 says1980!

    s31e02

    1980.10.05

    S30e06

    RT #385

    ABC #345
    • Vocabularies: Arachidic, plakophobia, penelopised, matutolipia
    • Things in common: dogs in Dickens, unfinished books, objects named after people, programming languages
    • Hyphenated adjectives: dragon-green, green-robed, ever-rolling, well-conducted
    • Unfavourable reviews: Gettysburg Address, Paradise Lost, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Ulysses
    • “Leave no stone unturned” (FM) / “My sweet little Alice blue gown” (DN)

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    JJN

    PM, TS

    ABC, 22/21-May-2003

    BBC R7, 02-Jul-2004

    KIPO-FM, 10-Jun-2004

    KALW-18-Jun-2004

    KWAX-FM, 26-May-2007

    27:10, 25475, S

     

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    07-Nov-1979

    s31e03

    1980.10.12

    S30e07

    RT #386

    ABC #346
    • Personal announcements, 20th century people: Sir Robert Pelpman, Dorothy Parker, Tallulah Bankhead, Beverly Nichols
    • “ough”:  thorough, chough, furlough, cough
    • Dyspeptic diagnoses by Carlisle: Disraeli, Wordsworth, Shelley, Coleridge
    • Who art thou? Tennyson, Milton, Wordsworth, Shakespeare / Romeo
    • Aliases: The Godfather, Georges Sand, Tarzan, Charlie’s Aunt
    • “Somewhere over the rainbow” (FM) /  “People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones” (DN)

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    JJN

    PM, TS

    DB, 26:48

    ABC, 29/28-May-2003

    KIPO-FM, 17-Jun-2004?

    KALW-FM, 25-Jun-2004

    KWAX-FM, 02-Jun-2007

    27:06, 25408, S

     

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    14-Nov-1979

    s31e04

    1980.10.17

    S30e08

    ABC #347
    • Preposterous words: zonasthesia, misodoctyleclides, insecable, discalceate
    • Words in common: drunkeness, kept a diary, do them all backwards, yoyo throws
    • Three word quotations: the moving finger writes, showery flowery bowery, an empty dream, a cannon ball
    • Original titles: the sea cook, mag’s diversion, first impressions, tenderness
    • “Half a loaf is better than no bread” (FM) /  “I’m dancing with tears in my eyes” (DN)

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    JJN

    PM, TS

    DB

    ABC, 05/04-Jun-2003

    KIPO-FM, 24-Jun-2004

    KALW-FM, 02-Jul-2004

    KWAX-FM, 09-Jun-2007

    26:58, 25298, S

     

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    21-Nov-1979

    s31e05

    1980.10.22

    S30e09

    ABC #348
    • Odd Man Out: sugar, Alice in Wonderland, starboard, Great Expectations
    • Hidden Places: baby’s nappy, crop of a Christmas goose, arms in the statue of the Virgin, corridor side of a hotel room door
    • Poetical Requests: tell me the old old story, If I should die think only this of me, And all I ask is a merry yarn, shall I compare thee to a summer’s day
    • Double definitions: intimate, invalid, refuse, continent
    • “All things bright and beautiful” (FM) /  “Pardon me boy, is that the Chattanooga choo-choo” (DN)

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    JJN

    PM, TS

    DB

    ABC, 12/11-Jun-2003

    KALW-FM, 09-Jul-2004

    KWAX-FM, 16-Jun-2007

    27:08, 25445, S

     

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    28-Nov-1979

    s31e06

    1980.10.29

    S30e10

    ABC #349
    • Caustic Comments: Mark Twain, John Florio, William Gilbert, Bevan
    • Derivations: to go to pot, inoculation, ostracize, aftermath
    • Post Mortems: Dr. No, Mr. Krook, Madame Marguerite Gauthier, Mr. Bartholomew Shalter
    • Part words: gamuf, tchphr, hyth, kesh
    • “Parlez moi d’amour” (FM) / “Anchors aweigh” (DN)

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    JJN

    PM, TS

    ABC, 19/18-Jun-2003

    KIPO-FM, 08-Jul-2004

    KALW-FM, 16-Jul-2004

    KWAX-FM, 23-Jun-2007

    27:05, 25401, S

     

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    05-Dec-1979

    s31e07

    1980.11.05

    S30e11

    350
    • Incomplete Proverbs: a dog’s nose and a maid’s knee…, the mother-in-law remembereth not…, the first year let your house to an enemy…, a runaway monk never…
    • Composite words: gorgon zola, balder dash, butter fly, ram shackle
    • Origins and derivations: skeleton at the feast, all my eye and Betty Monkit, paraphenalia, win hands down
    • Poetical pairings: cool kindliness, twilight sings, the unforgiving minute, petty pace
    • Names beginning with Z: Zephilinda, Zulaika, Zeus, Zola
    • “Noel” (FM) / “Mary Had a little lamb” (DN)

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    JJN

    PM, TS

    ABC, 26/25-Jun-2003

    KIPO-FM, 15-Jul-2004

    KALW-FM, 23-Jul-2004

    KWAX-FM, 30-Jun-2007

    27:04, 25381, S

     

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    23-Oct-1980

    R7:

     

    S31e09

    ·          Victorian Vulgarisms: Fly a flag of distress, a horse with devotional habits, a monkey’s allowance, use a louse trap

    ·          Two out of three: Shakespeare’s children, the more you beat them the better they be, triangles, Evelyn Waugh’s Sword of Honour trilogy

    ·          30 seconds: parts of human body, clothing, farm animals, tools in one hand

    ·          Poetical pairings: starry skies, unfathomed caves, innumerable bees, mazy motion

    ·          “A Sadder and a wiser man” (FM) / “Nothing succeeds like success” (DN)

    DP-FM, Gillian Reynolds-DN

    JJN

    PM, TS

    Radio 7, 16-Jul-2004

    27:29, 25769, S

    PC D/L, 04-Jul-2003

    27:19, 25613, S

    BBC 7 web

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    07-Dec-1980

    R7:

    11-Jul-2003

    S31e11

    #403

    ·          Vocabularies: dromophobia, iatrophobia, amaxophobia, belonephobia

    ·          Bits and Pieces: spinning wheel, ear, violin, lacrosse

    ·          Literary Fashions: Gunga Din, the Devil, Miss Havesham, Pied Piper

    ·          Juvenile Conundrums: Frisbee/Prince of Wales, cat/comma, hurt child/thundercloud, angry impresario/Julius Caesar’s barber

    ·          Verbal Ingenuity: procrastinate/reinforced concrete, abracadabra/women’s liberation, idiosyncratic/cooking with garlic, ICBM/Brigitte Bardot

    ·          Identifications: Sir Walter Raleigh, Dr. Johnson, Winston Churchill, Benjamin Franklin

    ·          Homophones: sucker/succor, meddle/metal, canvas/canvass, crick/creek

    DP-FM, AF-B.Took

    JJN

    PM, TS

    Peter Casey

    27:19, 25616, S

     

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    1982?

    R7:

    18-Jul-2003

    S32exx?

     

    ·          Impromptu Remarks: good morning gentleman both, you will always be fools, thank you madam the agony is abated, alright you have it your way you heard a seal bark

    ·          Paraphrased Poetry: Walrus and the Carpenter, Old King Cole, Gray’s Elegy, What Shall We Do with a Drunken Sailor?

    ·          Mandatory Monosyllables: smile on the Mona Lisa, rules of croquet, attack of cramp, breakfast in bed

    ·          Double definitions: concert, pore, desert, entrance

    ·          “The Rite of Spring” (FM) / “The Agony and the Ecstasy” (DN)

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    JJN

    PM, TS

    Peter Casey

    27:16, 25568, S

     

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    1982?

    R7:

    25-Jul-2003

    S32exx

    ·          Vocabularies: muddlefubbles, gongoozler, straddlebob, horbgorble

    ·          Origins and Derivations: Do good by stealth, fascinating, like a giant refreshed, propaganda

    ·          Misprinted poetry

    ·          Food and drink: lukewarm water, broth without any bread, pomegranate seeds, toasted cheese

    ·          Double definitions: cupid, sage, swallow, jam

    ·          “One good turn deserves another” (FM) / “Little brown jug, how I love thee” (DN)

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    JJN

    PM, TS

    Peter Casey

    27:21, 25645, S

     

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    14-Nov-1979

    S30e08

    #387

    DP, FM,  AF, DN,

    JJN, Peter Moore, Prod: TS

     

     

     

     

     

     

    23-Nov-1979

    S30e09

    #388

    DP, FM,  AF, DN,

    JJN, Peter Moore, Prod: TS

     

     

     

     

     

     

    28-Nov-1979

    S30e10

    #389

    DP, FM,  ASJ, DN,

    JJN, Peter Moore, Prod: TS

     

     

     

     

     

     

    05-Dec-1979

    S30e11

    #390

    DP, Barry Took,  ASJ, DN,

    JJN, Peter Moore, Prod: TS

     

     

     

     

     

     

    12-Dec-1979

    S30e12

    #391

    DP, FM,  AF, DN,

    JJN, Peter Moore, Prod: TS

     

     

     

     

     

     

    19-Dec-1979

    S30e13

    #392

    DP, FM,  ASJ, DN,

    JJN, Peter Moore, Prod: TS

     

     

     

     

     

     

    28-Sep-1980

    Series 31 (1980)

    S31e01

    #393

    DP, FM,  AF, DN,

    JJN, Peter Moore, Prod: TS

     

     

     

     

     

     

    05-Oct-1980

    S31e02

    #394

    DP, FM,  AF, DN,

    JJN, Peter Moore, Prod: TS

     

     

     

     

     

     

    12-Oct-1980

    S31e03

    #395

    DP, FM,  AF, DN,

    JJN, Peter Moore, Prod: TS

     

     

     

     

     

     

    19-Oct-1980

    S31e04

    #396

    DP, FM,  AF, DN,

    JJN, Peter Moore, Prod: TS

     

     

     

     

     

     

    26-Oct-1980

    S31e05

    #397

    DP, FM,  AF, DN,

    JJN, Peter Moore, Prod: TS

     

     

     

     

     

     

    02-Nov-1980

    S35e06

    #398

    DP, FM,  AF, DN,

    JJN, Peter Moore, Prod: TS

     

     

     

     

     

     

    09-Nov-1980

    S31e07

    #399

    DP, FM,  AF, DN,

    JJN, Peter Moore, Prod: TS

     

     

     

     

     

     

    16-Nov-1980

    S31e08

    #400

    DP, FM,  AF, DN,

    JJN, Peter Moore, Prod: TS

     

     

     

     

     

     

    23-Nov-1980

     

    S31e09

    #401

    DP, FM,  Gillian Reynolds, DN

    JJN, Peter Moore, Prod: TS

     

     

     

     

     

     

    30-Nov-1980

    S31e10

    #402

    DP, FM,  AF, DN,

    JJN, Peter Moore, Prod: TS

     

     

     

     

     

     

    07-Dec-1980

    S31e11

    #403

    DP, FM,  AF, Barry Took,

    JJN, Peter Moore, Prod: TS

     

     

     

     

     

     

    14-Dec-1980

    S31e12

    #404

    DP, FM,  AF, DN,

    JJN, Peter Moore, Prod: TS

     

     

     

     

     

     

    21-Dec-1980

    S31e13

    #405

    DP, FM,  AF, DN,

    JJN, Peter Moore, Prod: TS

     

     

     

     

     

     

    30-Dec-1981

    Series 32 (1981-2)

    S32e01

    #406

    DP, FM,  AF, DN,

    JJN, Peter Moore, Prod: Bobby Jaye

     

     

     

     

     

     

    06-Jan-1982

    S32e02

    #407

    DP, FM,  AF, DN,

    JJN, Peter Moore, Prod: Bobby Jaye

     

     

     

     

     

     

    13-Jan-1982

    S32e03

    #408

    DP, FM,  AF, DN,

    JJN, Peter Moore, Prod: Bobby Jaye

     

     

     

     

     

     

    20-Jan-1982

    S32e04

    #409

    DP, FM,  AF, DN,

    JJN, Peter Moore, Prod: Bobby Jaye

     

     

     

     

     

     

    27-Jan-1982

    S32e05

    #410

    DP, FM,  AF, DN,

    JJN, Peter Moore, Prod: Bobby Jaye

     

     

     

     

     

     

    03-Feb-1982

    S32e06

    #411

    DP, FM,  AF, DN,

    JJN, Peter Moore, Prod: Bobby Jaye

     

     

     

     

     

     

    10-Feb-1982

    S32e07

    #412

    DP, FM,  AF, DN,

    JJN, Peter Moore, Prod: Bobby Jaye

     

     

     

     

     

     

    17-Feb-1982

    S32e08

    #413

    DP, FM,  AF, DN,

    JJN, Peter Moore, Prod: Bobby Jaye

     

     

     

     

     

     

    24-Feb-1982

    S32e09

    #414

    DP, FM,  AF, DN,

    JJN, Peter Moore, Prod: Bobby Jaye

     

     

     

     

     

     

    03-Mar-1982

    S32e10

    #415

    DP, FM,  AF, DN,

    JJN, Peter Moore, Prod: Bobby Jaye

     

     

     

     

     

     

    10-Mar-1982

    S32e11

    #416

    DP, FM,  Irene Thomas, DN,

    JJN, Peter Moore, Prod: Bobby Jaye

     

     

     

     

     

     

    17-Mar-1982

    S32e12

    #417

    DP, FM,  AF, Barry Took,

    JJN, Peter Moore, Prod: Bobby Jaye

     

     

     

     

     

     

    24-Mar-1982

    S32e13

    #418

    DP, FM,  AF, DN,

    JJN, Peter Moore, Prod: Bobby Jaye

     

     

     

     

     

     

    08-Dec-1982

    Series 33 (1982-3)

    S33e01

    #419

    DP, FM,  IT, DN,

    AF, Peter Moore, Prod: TS/Pete Atkin

     

     

     

     

     

     

    15-Dec-1982

    S33e02

    #420

    DP, FM,  IT, DN,

    AF, Peter Moore, Prod: TS/Pete Atkin

     

     

     

     

     

     

    22-Dec-1982

    S33e03

    #421

    DP, FM,  IT, DN,

    AF, Peter Moore, Prod: TS/Pete Atkin

     

     

     

     

     

     

    29-Dec-1982

    S33e04

    #422

    DP, FM,  IT, DN,

    AF, Peter Moore, Prod: TS/Pete Atkin

     

     

     

     

     

     

    05-Jan-1983

    S33e05

    #423

    DP, FM,  IT, DN,

    AF, Peter Moore, Prod: TS/Pete Atkin

     

     

     

     

     

     

    12-Jan-1983

    S33e06

    #424

    DP, FM,  IT, DN,

    AF, Peter Moore, Prod: TS/Pete Atkin

     

     

     

     

     

     

    19-Jan-1983

    S33e07

    #425

    DP, FM,  IT, DN,

    AF, Peter Moore, Prod: TS/Pete Atkin

     

     

     

     

     

     

    26-Jan-1983

    S33e08

    #426

    DP, FM,  IT, DN,

    AF, Peter Moore, Prod: TS/Pete Atkin

     

     

     

     

     

     

    02-Feb-1983

    S33e09

    #427

    DP, FM,  IT, DN,

    AF, Peter Moore, Prod: TS/Pete Atkin

     

     

     

     

     

     

    09-Feb-1983

    S33e10

    #428

    DP, FM,  IT, DN,

    AF, Peter Moore, Prod: TS/Pete Atkin

     

     

     

     

     

     

    16-Feb-1983

    S33e11

    #429

    DP, FM,  IT, DN,

    AF, Peter Moore, Prod: TS/Pete Atkin

     

     

     

     

     

     

    20-Feb-1983

    S33e12

    #430

    DP, FM,  IT, DN,

    AF, Peter Moore, Prod: TS/Pete Atkin

     

     

     

     

     

     

    02-Mar-1983

    S33e13

    #431

    DP, FM,  IT, DN,

    AF, Peter Moore, Prod: TS/Pete Atkin

     

     

     

     

     

     

    1985

    ABC #351
    • Vocabularies: hypocoristic, recondite, mnemonic, optotype
    • Sporting vernacular: ten-pin bowling. Tiddleewinks, marbles, Frisbee trajectories
    • Derivations: French leave, sincere, under the aegis of, greengage
    • A Mixed Bag: Mickey Mouse, angry/hungry, James I “A Counterblaste to Tobacco”, heights
    • Americanisms: bobby pin, thumbtack, snap fastener, tic-tac-toe
    • “The boy I love is up in the gallery” (FM) /  “It only happens when I dance with you” (DN)

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    MoD

    PM, TS/PA

    DB, 26:45,

    ABC-MH, 03/02-Jul-2003

    KIPO-FM, 22-Jul-2004

    KALW-FM, 30-Jul-2004

    KWAX-FM, 31-Jul-2004

    27:10, 25476, S

     

    G

     

     

    1985

    ABC #352
    • Vocabularies: obloquy, andiron, cenotaph, farrago
    • Names into Words: 4th Earl of Sandwich
    • Poetry into Clichés: Tennyson, Cowper, Kipling, Shakespeare
    • Thespian Terminology: Aunt Edna, to pong, George Spelvin/Walter Plinge, yatata yatata
    • Double Definitions: cope, murder, pontoon, bustle
    • “1984” (FM) / “I’m Putting All My Eggs in One Basket” (DN)

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    MoD

    PM, ??

    ABC-MH, 10/09-Jul-2003

    KALW-FM, 06-Aug-2004

    KWAX-FM, 07-Aug-2004

    27:17, 25593, S

    No credits

    G

     

     

    1985

    ABC #353
    • Vocabularies: jejune, simony, persiflage, scrannel
    • Second lines: Let dogs delight, Let joy be unconfined, Say not the struggle naught availeth, Variety’s the very spice of life
    • Malicious Criticism: Shaw/Cymbeline, Keats, Mark Twain/Scott, Lady Chatterly’s Lover
    • Coined words: pandemonium, centrifugal, blatant, assassination
    • “Rule Britannia” (FM) /  “Come into the garden Maude” (DN)

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    MoD

    PM, TS/PA

    CE, 001229, 27:01, 7918

    ABC-MH, 17/16-Jul-2003

    KIPO-FM, 05-Aug-2004

    KALW-FM, 13-Aug-2004

    KWAX-FM, 21-Jul-2007

    27:03, 25368, S

     

    G

     

     

    1985

     

    ABC #354
    • Vocabularies: fizgig, tomalley, aspirgillum, bdellism
    • Something in common: puns, all Thackeray, successive wives of Milton, names for things with forgotten names
    • Next lines: the pen is mightier than the sword, a sadder and wiser man, in the spring a young man’s fancy turns to thoughts of love, gone with the wind
    • Uncompleted clichés: fact, something that’s obvious, situations, catastrophe
    • “I want to say thanks for that lovely weekend” (FM) /  “Hitch your wagon to a star” (DN)

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    MoD

    PM, TS/PA

    CE, 010105

    ABC-MH, 24/23-Jul-2003

    KALW-FM, 20-Aug-2004

    KWAX-FM, 28-Jul-2007

    27:13, 25527, S

     

    G

     

     

    22-Nov-1983

    Series 34 (1983-4)

    S34e01

    #432

    ABC #355

    ·          Vocabularies: lallation, filemot, lustrum, quidnunc

    ·          Places in Common: typographical symbols, clock hand styles, shapes of gravestones, parts of the face

    ·          Colorful Poetry: gray-green Limpopo, blue hills of Shropshire, gray beard of Ancient Mariner, purple cow

    ·          Homophones: berth/birth, gnaw/nor, beret/berry, slight/sleight

    ·          “Six of one, half a dozen of the other” (FM) / “Everybody loves somebody sometime” (DN)

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    MoD

    PM, ??

    ABC-MH, 31-Jul-2003

    27:03, 12685, M

    No credits

    No credits

    G

     

    29-Nov-1983

    S34e02

    #433

    ABC #356
    • Vocabularies: epicurean, friable, harbinger, turnsick
    • Mixed bag: brassiere, anagram, inventor of cribbage, fish - ghoti
    • Things in common: written in gaol, toadstools, all Shakespearean quotations, John Bainborough
    • Monosyllables: 007, Oliver Cromwell’s warts, how to fry an egg, first on becoming PM
    • “The heart of the matter” (FM) / “The flight of the bumblebee” (DN)

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    MoD

    PM, TS/PA

    ABC-MH, 07-Aug-2003

    27:15, 12783, M

    --

    KALW-FM, 27-Aug-2004

    KWAX-FM, 28-Aug-2004

    27:29, 25768, S

    Surface noise

    G

     

    06-Dec-1983

    S34e03

    #434

    ABC #357
    • Vocabularies: amanuensis, banshee, afflatus, estivate
    • Shakespearean Klangers: Roman clock striking, Cleopatra’s billiards, King John’s cannon, ship in desert of Bohemia
    • Numbers: a thousand, 24, 15, 41
    • Double Definitions: distemper, spruce, churchwarden, bootless
    • “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” (FM) / “Who Was that Lady I Saw You with Last Night?” (DN)

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    MoD

    PM, TS/PA

    ABC-MH, 14-Aug-2003?

    KALW-FM, 03-Sep-2004

    KWAX-FM, 04-Aug-2007

    26:52, 25195, S

     

    G

     

    13-Dec-1983

    S34e04

    #435

    ABC #358
    • Vocabularies: gubernatorial, magniloquent, Cimmerian, mezzanine
    • Literary drinks: Samson-samson, Socrates, Proverbs, Thurber on wine
    • Answers: ignorance madam, at Stonehenge/on murdering Alec, a little more than kith, four larks two owls…
    • Words for foreigners: entrance, dessert/desert, contract, incense
    • “Somewhere over the rainbow” (FM) / “Someday I’ll find you” (DN)

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    MoD

    PM, TS/PA

    ABC-MH, 21-Aug-2003

    KALW-FM, 10-Sep-2004

    KWAX-FM, 11-Aug-2007

    26:36, 24945, S

     

    G

     

    20-Dec-1983

    S34e05

    #436

    ABC #359
    • Vocabularies: halcyon, meniscus, goluptuous, spuddle
    • Things in common: victoria, skipping rope games, hounds, warts
    • Poetry with Oceanic Overtones: lonely sea, silent sea, silver sea, sunless sea
    • Homonyms: marshall/martial, feint/faint, new/gnu, limb/limn
    • “The Pirates of Penzance” (FM) /  “Do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti” (DN)

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    MoD

    PM, TS/PA

    CE, 001124

    ABC-MH, 28-Aug-2003

    KALW-FM, 17-Sep-2004

    KWAX-FM, 18-Sep-2004

    KXOT-FM, 18-Aug-2007

    27:00, 25325, S

     

    G

     

     

    27-Dec-1983

     

    No show on this date

     

     

     

     

     

     

    03-Jan-1984

    S34e06

    #437

    ABC #360
    • Vocabularies: hepatic, crassitude, pantechnion, bugaboo
    • Derivations: it’s all my eye and Betty Martin, preposterous, dandelion, curfew
    • Familiar Shakespeare: to the manor born, the be all and the end all, it beggared all description, wear my heart upon my sleeve
    • Words used in their homes: macinsop, horserubbish, bed-raggled, taking one of nature’s cuts, God’s champagne, misled, fiduffa
    • Words changing when plural: spectacle(s), marble(s), pant(s), bellow(s)
    • “Here today gone tomorrow” (FM) /  “There’s a sucker born every minute” (DN)

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    MoD

    PM, TS/PA

    CE, 001201

    ABC-MH, 04-Sep-2003

    KALW-FM, 24-Sep-2004

    KWAX-FM, 25-Aug-2007

    27:19, 25617, S

     

    G

     

    10-Jan-1984

    S34e07

    #438

    ABC #361
    • Vocabularies: pollical, nugatory, cordwainer, oojiboo
    • Kisses: Mademoiselle from Armetiers, Kipling, Kiss me Hardy, Clementine
    • Who or What were They: winged seeds, daffodils, bread biscuits sweets and joints, bees
    • Double barreled words: shilly shally, willy nilly, hurly burly, fuddy duddy
    • “A change is as good as a rest” (FM) / “Do not count your chickens until they are hatched” (DN)

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    MoD

    PM, TS/PA

    ABC-MH, 11-Sep-2003

    KALW-FM, 01-Oct-2004

    KWAX-FM, 01-Sep-2007

    27:05, 25392, S

     

    G

     

    17-Jan-1984

    S34e08

    #439

    ABC #362
    • Vocabularies: sesquipedalian, catacumen, fanfaronade, cinerary
    • Something in Common: curtailed words, all lifted from French, grasses, signs of the Zodiac
    • Unique Utterances: you can fool some of the people, Armstrong’s landing speech, never was so much …, I came I saw …
    • “Onward Christian soldiers” (FM) / “Red sails in the sunset” (DN)

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    MoD

    PM, TS/PA

    ABC-MH, 18-Sep-2003

    KALW-FM, 08-Oct-2004

    KXOT-FM, 08-Sep-2007

    26:23, 24747, S

     

    G

     

    24-Jan-1984 "singing 17 years on My Music”

    S34e09

    #440

    ABC #363
    • Vocabularies: abecedary, spandrel, basilisk, rumblegumption
    • Terms in common: Bellringing, romantic novels, computer terms, aviation terms
    • Hats: trilby, William Tell, wideawake hat, candlewax
    • “In Memoriam” (FM) / “All the News Fit to Print” (DN)

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    MoD

    PM, TS/PA

    CE, 001110

    ABC-MH, 25-Sep-2003

    KALW-FM, 15-Oct-2004

    KWAX-FM, 15-Sep-2007

    27:18, 25595, S

     

    G

     

     

    31-Jan-1984

    S34e10

    #441

    ABC #364
    • Vocabularies: majuscule, ephemeron, concupiscence, invultuation
    • Beginning sentences: 1984, Peter Pan, Brighton Rock, Mr. Loveday’s Little Outing
    • Missing first lines: was this the face that launched a thousand ships, under the wide and starry sky, tears idle tears, procrastination is the thief of time
    • Homonyms: raise/raze, wood/would, metal/mettle, horde/hoard
    • “Hallelujah!” (FM) /  “Maybe It’s Because I’m a Londoner” (DN)

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    MoD

    PM, TS/PA

    CE, 001117 (partial)

    ABC-MH, 02-Oct-2003

    KALW-FM, 22-Oct-2004

    KWAX-FM, 22-Sep-2007

    27:29, 25769, S

     

    G

     

     

    04-Dec-1984

    Series 35 (1984-5)

    S35e01

    #442

    ABC #365
    • Vocabularies: izzard, postulant, cerebellum, nexus
    • Horses: Black Beauty, one horsepower, Caligula’s horse, Richard III
    • Inscriptions: by perseverance I conquer, if thy heart fails thee climb not at all, the gates of Hell, out of strength cometh sweetness
    • Three word quotations: all our yesterdays, the silent dust, triumph and disaster, a ghostly batsman
    • “Oh dear what can the matter me” (FM) /  “Every little movement has a meaning of its own” (DN)

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    MoD

    PM, TS/PA

    ABC-MH, 09-Oct-2003

    KALW-FM, 29-Oct-2004

    KWAX-FM, 29-Sep-2007

    KXOT-FM, 29-Dec-2007

    27:05, 25404, S

     

    G

     

     

    11-Dec-1984

    S35e02

    #443

    ABC #366
    • Vocabularies: caprification, flocculent, trogolodyte, flockizenihipilification
    • Victoriana: a preacher or speaker, a sovereign, an inebriate, hairdos
    • Verbal transplants: vasistas, ich niedviet=nitwit, kickshaw, voksal=Vauxhall
    • Americana: realtor=estate agent, transom=fanlight, vest=waistcoat, casket=coffin
    • “Down among the Sheltering Palms” (FM) /  “Off We Go into the Wild Blue Yonder” (DN)

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    MoD

    PM, TS/PA

    ABC-MH, 16-Oct-2003

    KALW-FM, 05-Nov-2004

    KWAX-FM, 06-Nov-2004

    KXOT-FM, 06-Oct-2007

    26:56, 25254, S

     

    G

     

     

    18-Dec-1984

    S35e03

    #444

    ABC #367
    • Vocabularies: fustigation, wraith, hubristic, graphospasm
    • Four of a kind: puns, bird cries, merged words, systems
    • Newspaper headlines: Raleigh spreads his coat, apple hits Newton, Cnut can’t halt the tide, Washington confesses about cherry tree
    • Double-barreled words: harum scarum, helter skelter, wishy washy, heebie jeebies
    • “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times” (FM) /  “Alice through the Looking Glass” (DN)

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    MoD

    PM, TS/PA

    ABC-MH, 23-Oct-2003

    KALW-FM, 12-Nov-2004

    KWAX-FM, 13-Nov-2004

    KXOT-FM, 13-Oct-2007

    27:04, 25382, S

     

    G

     

     

    25-Dec-1984

    --

    No show on this date

     

     

     

     

     

     

    01-Jan-1985

    S35e04

    #445

    ABC #368
    • Vocabularies: tushery, paradigm, quondam, jirble
    • Quotations: Goldsmith, Southey, Coleridge, Shakespeare
    • Improbable confrontations: Florence Nightingale, Attila the Hun, Guy Fawkes, Signora Lucretia Borgia
    • Ancient adjectives: naughty, silly, enthusiastic, prestigious
    • “Meni meni teko a parsen” (FM) /  “Hoist with his own petard” (DN)

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    MoD

    PM, TS/PA

    ABC-MH, 30-Oct-2003

    KALW-FM, 19-Nov-2004

    KWAX-FM, 20-Nov-2004

    KXOT-FM, 20-Oct-2007

    26:58, 25292, S

     

    G

     

     

    08-Jan-1985

    S35e05

    #446

    ABC #369
    • Vocabularies: fenestration, gibbous, condign, digraph
    • Lucky Dip into a Mixed Bag: I love you, Orare Ben Johnson, cold as a dog’s nose and a maid’s knee, Adam had ‘em
    • Near synonyms: flagrant/blatant, turgid/turbid, kith/kin, flout/flaunt
    • Double definitions: temper, assault, shy, brook
    • “The sound of music” (FM) /  “This was the noblest Roman of all” (DN)

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    MoD

    PM, TS/PA

    ABC-MH, 06-Nov-2003

    KALW-FM, 26-Nov-2004

    KWAX-FM, 27-Nov-2004

    KXOT-FM, 27-Oct-2007

    27:10, 25471, S

     

    Ga

     

     

    15-Jan-1985

    S35e06

    #447

    ABC #370
    • Vocabularies: symposium, salmagundy, sententious, nosology
    • Something in Common: translated phrases, ghosts, shipwrecked, Inspectors in Sherlock Holmes
    • Verbal imports: kowtow, paradise, wigwam, tycoon
    • “Of shoes and ships and sealing wax…” (FM) / “You and the night and the music”(DN)

    DP-FM, ASJ-DN

    MoD

    PM, TS/PA

    ABC-MH, 13-Nov-2003

    KALW-FM, 03-Dec-2004

    KWAX-FM, 05-Dec-2004

    KXOT-FM, 03-Nov-2007

    27:10, 25485, S

     

    Ga

     

     

    22-Jan-1985

    S35e07

    #448

    ABC #371
    • Vocabularies: gizzard, samite, lurid, luscious
    • Bread and Butter: bread the staff of life, the Reverend Mr Collins, Jael and Heber the Canaanite, the waiter roars it through the hall
    • Differences: jocose/jocular, impromptu/ex tempore, fable/parable, complacent/complaisant
    • “Tales from the Vienna Woods” (FM) / “By the time I get to Phoenix”(DN)

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    MoD

    PM, TS/PA

    ABC-MH, 20-Nov-2003

    KALW-FM, 10-Dec-2004

    KWAX-FM, 11-Dec-2004

    KXOT-FM. 10-Nov-2007

    27:24, 25703, S

     

    Ga

     

     

    29-Jan-1985

    S35e08

    #449

    ABC #372

    ·         Vocabularies: cicatrice, nostrum, hippogriff, palpebrate

    ·         Something in Common: pieces of armour, folding napkins, titles in the Bab Ballads, titles phrases from the Bible

    ·         This and That: Abide with Me, Song of the Shirt, On the Contention of Ajax and Achilles, The Destruction of Senacherib

    ·         “My word is my bond” (FM) / “An American in Paris”(DN)

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    MoD

    PM, TS/PA

    ABC-MH, 27-Nov-2003

    KALW-FM, 17-Dec-2004

    KWAX-FM, 18-Dec-2004

    KXOT-FM 17-Nov-2007

    26:35, 24932,, S

     

    Ga

     

     

    04-Mar-1986

    S36e10

    #464

    ABC #375

    ·          A Packet of Allsorts: Islands of Langerhans, palindrome, Harry S Truman, quite excellent/quite good

    ·          Nuances: authentic/genuine, revenge/vengeance, convince / persuade, further/farther

    ·          Eyewitness accounts: Vesuvius, Destruction of the Cities of the Plain, Parting of the Red Sea, Livingstone and Stanley, opening night of Private Lives

    ·          Trinomials: lock stock and barrel, bell book and candle, tall dark and handsome, cool calm and collected

    ·          “There’s no business like show business” (FM) / “If they asked me I could write a book”(DN)

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    MoD

    PM, TS/PA

    KIPO-FM, 23-Dec-2004

    KALW-FM, 07-Jan-2005

    KWAX-FM, 08-Jan-2005

    KXOT-FM, 24-Nov-2007

    27:07, 25435, S

     

    Ga

     

     

    25-Mar-1986

    S36e13

    #467

    ABC #378
    • Common Denominators: tiddlywinks, flowers named after people, Shakespeare’s siblings, icicles
    • Origins: steal one’s thunder, a hooligan, lackadaisical, toodle loo
    • Eponymities: perpetual bowtie, self-pruning rose, dog training, elastic band on wrist
    • Rhyming Chiming: higgledy piggledy, argy bargy, hanky panky, roly poly
    • “Treasure Island” (FM) / “Never give a sucker an even break”(DN)

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    MoD

    PM, TS/PA

    KIPO-FM, 30-Dec-2004

    KALW-FM, 14-Jan-2005

    KWAX-FM, 15-Jan-2005

    KXOT-FM, 01-Dec-2007

    27:05, 25403, S

     

    Ga

     

     

    11-Mar-1986

    S36e11

    #465

    ABC #376

    ·          Bibliophily: book bindings, bookworms, in black books, blank books

    ·          Male Chauvinist Thought: John Knox, Doctor Johnson, Walter Scott, Chesterfield

    ·          Summerville and Ross Invented Dictionary: doldrumiser, grawbey, sheba, absquatulate

    ·          Hyphenated Threesomes: happy-go-lucky, pit-a-pat, forget-me-not, mother-of-pearl

    ·          “Twelfth night or What You Will” (FM) / “Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen”(DN)

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    MoD

    PM, TS/PA

    KIPO-FM, 13-Jan-2005

    KALW-FM, 21-Jan-2005

    KWAX-FM, 22-Jan-2005

    KXOT-FM, 08-Dec-2007

    27:12, 25502, S

     

    Ga

     

     

    18-Mar-1986

    S36e12

    #466

    ABC #377
    • Common Denominators: pipes, good expressions, days named after Norse gods, archery terms
    • Origins: upshot of a matter, filbert nut, nightmare, mum’s the word
    • Fundamental truths: always buy a thermometer in the summer, heavy person down on the seesaw, one doesn’t get drier by going into the sea, opinions about marzipan
    • Binomials: flotsam and jetsam, hue and cry, ashes and sackcloth, ps and qs
    • “The Hotel du Lac” (FM) / “The Walrus and the Carpenter” (DN)

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    MoD

    PM, TS/PA

    KIPO-FM, ??

    KALW-FM, 28-Jan-2005

    KWAX-FM, 29-Jan-2005

    KXOT-FM, 15-Dec-2007

    26:54, 25221, S

     

    Ga

     

     

    05-Feb-1985

    S35e09

    #450

     

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    MoD

    PM, TS/PA

     

     

     

     

     

    12-Feb-1985

    S35e10

    #451

     

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    MoD

    PM, TS/PA

     

     

     

     

     

    19-Feb-1985

    S35e11

    #452

     

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    MoD

    PM, TS/PA

     

     

     

     

     

    26-Feb-1985

    S35e12

    #453

     

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    MoD

    PM, TS/PA

     

     

     

     

     

    05-Mar-1985

    S35e13

    #454

     

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    MoD

    PM, TS/PA

     

     

     

     

     

    31-Dec-1985

    Series 36 (1985-86)

    S36e01

    #455

     

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    MoD

    PM, TS/PA

     

     

     

     

     

    07-Jan-1986

    S36e02

    #456

     

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    MoD

    PM, TS/PA

     

     

     

     

     

    14-Jan-1986

    S36e03

    #457

     

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    MoD

    PM, TS/PA

     

     

     

     

     

    21-Jan-1986

    S36e04

    #458

     

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    MoD

    PM, TS/PA

     

     

     

     

     

    28-Jan-1986

    S36e05

    #459

    ABC #373
    • Garland of flowers: talking flowers, Spencer’s Prothalamion, camellia, Surtees’ Jorrocks
    • Distinctions: instinct/intuition, meticulous/pernickety, delusion/illusion, sensual/sensuous
    • How to start writing each day
    • Double definitions: manifest, settle, riddle, sensation
    • “I wonder who’s kissing her now” (FM) / “It’s a long lane that has no turning”(DN)

    DP, FM,  Gay Search, DN,

    MoD

    PM, PA

    KIPO-FM, 16-Dec-2004

    KALW-FM, 24-Dec-2004

    KWAX-FM, 25-Dec-2004

    KXOT-FM, 05-Jan-2008

    27:06, 25416, S

     

    Ga

     

     

    04-Feb-1986

    S36e06

    #460

    DP, FM,  Joan Bakewell, DN,

    MoD, Peter Moore, Prod: Pete Atkin

     

     

     

     

     

     

    11-Feb-1986

    S36e07

    #461

    DP, FM,  P.D. James, DN,

    MoD, Peter Moore, Prod: Pete Atkin

     

     

     

     

     

     

    18-Feb-1986

    S36e08

    #462

    DP, FM,  Libby Purves, DN,

    MoD, Peter Moore, Prod: Pete Atkin

     

     

     

     

     

     

    25-Feb-1986

    S36e09

    #463

    DP, FM,  Victoria Glendenning, DN,

    MoD, Peter Moore, Prod: Pete Atkin

     

     

     

     

     

     

    17-Jun-1987

    Series 37 (1987)

    S37e01

    #468

    ABC#379
    • Three of a Kind: invented names, Irishisms, terms involving horses, nouns before the adjective
    • Origins and derivations: all above board, curry favour, proposing a toast, on your tod
    • Graffiti the panelists would write
    • Poetic oddity: lines that use only “I” for vowels
    • “Count of Monte Cristo” (FM) / “Experience teaches”(DN)

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    MoD

    PM, TS/PA

    KIPO-FM, 27-Jan-2004

    KALW-FM, 04-Feb-2005

    KWAX-FM, 05-Feb-2005

    KXOT-FM, 19-Jan-2008

    26:45, 25088, S

     

    Ga

     

     

    24-Jun-1987

    S37e02

    #469

    ABC #380
    • Meeting Places: Contracting for Johnson’s Dictionary, disputed barricade, second witch in Macbeth, Holmes meets with Dr. Stamford
    • Find the animal: camel, bison, deer, lion/otter
    • Choosing a different name: Hartley Winkby, Daisy, --, Trent Nugent
    • “Try a little tenderness” (FM) / “Silence gives consent”(DN)

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    MoD

    PM, TS/PA

    KIPO-FM, 03-Feb-2004

    KALW-FM, 11-Feb-2005

    KWAX-FM, 12-Feb-2005

    KXOT-FM, 26-Jan-2008

    27:35, 25862, S

     

    Ga

     

     

    01-Jul-1987

    S37e03

    #470

    ABC#381
    • Three of a Kind: donkeys, grasses, indefinite articles, comparative standards
    • Posy of Prognostications: Endymion, Marx Das Kapital, talking pictures, Titanic
    • Feelings of Inadequacy: nursery rhymes, comic books, caterpillars in the kitchen, starting a clean towel
    • Verbal composites: spendthrift, killjoy, spitfire, breakneck
    • “Maybe it’s because I’m a Londoner” (FM) / “What can’t be cured must be endured”(DN)

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    MoD

    PM, TS/PA

    KIPO-FM, 10-Feb-2004

    KALW-FM, 18-Feb-2005

    KWAX-FM, 02-Feb-2008

    27:39, 25938, S

     

    Ga

     

     

    07-Jul-1987[5]

    S37e04

    #471

    ABC#382
    • Unlikely Connections: Ruthless Rhymes/Coldstream Guards, Christopher Wren/last dodo, Trooper Cumberbach/Ancient mariner, Eric  Little by Little/Montgomery
    • Origins and Derivations: at sixes and sevens, dress to the nines, grapes of wrath, conspiracy of silence
    • Newfangled nursery rhymes:
    • “Eureka” (FM)/ “Too marvelous for words” (DN)

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    MoD

    PM, TS/PA

    KIPO-FM, 17-Feb-2004

    KALW-FM, 25-Feb-2005

    KWAX-FM, 26-Feb-2005

    KXOT-FM, 09-Feb-2008

    27507, 26206, S

     

    Ga

     

     

    14-Jul-1987

    S37e05

    #472

    ABC #383

    ·          Regional Variations: children’s truce words, freckles, roof slates, left-handed

    ·          Differences: allay/alleviate, assuage/appease, solid/stolid, inescapable/ineluctable

    ·          Examples of Style

    ·          Definitely Definative: serendipity, ambergris, mnemonic, philander

    ·          “Rose of Washington Square” (FM)/ “The end justifies the means” (DN)

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    MoD

    PM, TS/PA

    KIPO-FM, 24-Feb-2004

    KALW-FM, 04-Mar-2005

    KWAX-FM, 05-Mar-2005

    KXOT-FM, 08-Mar-2008

    27:51, 26124, S

     

    Ga

     

     

    21-Jul-1987

    S37e06

    #473

    ABC #384
    • Odd Man Out: forlorn hope, comparison are odious, soliloquy, types of window
    • Eponyms: macadam, grainger, mesmer, bowdler, galvani
    • Business References
    • Definitely Definitive: widdeshins, nubile, cochineal, giggle
    • “A room with a view” (FM)/ “And this is my beloved” (DN)

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    MoD

    PM, TS/PA

    KIPO-FM, 03-Mar-2004

    KALW-FM, 11-Mar-2005

    KWAX-FM, 15-Mar-2008

    27:52, 26132, S

     

    Ga

     

     

    28-Jul-1987

    S37e07

    #474

    ABC #385
    • Songs from the Shows: Here’s to the Maiden, When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly, It was a Lover and His Lass, Has Anybody Seen Our Ship
    • Four Cities: Paris, Oxford, Athens, Edinburgh
    • Verse to Fit Rhymes
    • Double Definitions: pool, digs, race, log
    • “Popocatepetl ” (FM)/ “It’ll Be Alright on the Night” (DN)

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    MoD

    PM, TS/PA

    KIPO-FM, 10-Mar-2004

    KALW-FM, 18-Mar-2005

    KWAX-FM, 19-Mar-2005

    KXOT-FM, 16-Feb-2008

    28:06, 26352, S

     

    Ga

     

     

    04-Aug-1987

    S37e08

    #475

    ABC #386
    • Night Poetry: The Night before Christmas, Aubade by Larkin, Byron’s So We’ll No More Go A-Roving, Longfellow’s Excelsior
    • Origins and Derivations: between the devil and the deep blue sea, taxi, on the nail, son of a gun
    • Stepping Stones: dog-sex, Roy Fuller-Harold Pinter, Henry-Cary, Billingsgate-East Lynn
    • Literary Animals: Hodge the cat, Flush the dog, Ricky Ticky Tavi, National Velvet
    • “An ill-favoured thing sir but mine own” (FM)/ “I think therefore I am” (DN)

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    MoD

    PM, TS/PA

    KIPO-FM,

    KALW-FM, 25-Mar-2005

    KWAX-FM, 26-Mar-2005

    KXOT-FM, 23-Feb-2008

    28:02, 26283, S

     

    Ga

     

     

    11-Aug-1987

    S37e09

    #476

    ABC #387
    • Golden Round: golden ass, golden apples, golden verses, realms of gold
    • Distinctions: equal/emulate, casuistry/sophistry, precise/punctilious, neurosis/psychosis
    • Rhymes: night-fright-puzzle-guzzle, joy-cloy-thunder-asunder, wet-debt-above-shove, portend-bend-larks-Karl Marx
    • Deceptive definitions: bijou, personalized/executive, indispensable, adult
    • “For whom the bell tolls” (FM)/ “Things that go bump in the night” (DN)

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    MoD

    PM, TS/PA

    KIPO-FM,

    KALW-FM, 01-Apr-2005

    KWAX-FM, 01-Mar-2008

    27:27, 25736, S

     

    Ga

     

     

    Circa 1987

     

    ·          Odd Man Out: forlorn hope, comparisons are odious, soliloquy, fountain

    ·          Significant Surnames: Grainger, Mesmer, Bowdler, Galvani

    ·          Business References: Honest as the day as long, cook’s reference from Lucretia Borgia, thank you to the Borgias, a man of rare gifts

    ·          Definitely Definitive: widdishin, nubile, cochineal, giggle

    ·          “A room with a view” (FM) / “And this is my beloved” (DN)

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    MoD

    PM, TS/PA

    KWAX-FM, 15-Mar-2008

    27:52, 26132, S

    Flaw or two common to all broadcasts

    Ga

     

     

     

     

    Almost certainly several missing episodes and a series boundary

     

     

     

     

     

     

    19-Aug-1988

    S38e07

    #482

    ABC #388
    • Unfavourable Reviews: Wuthering Heights, Milton, Hamlet, Remembrance of Things Past
    • Connections: namby-pamby/Gracie Fields, Aldous Huxley / John Whiting/Arthur Miller, sexual politics/frogs, Alexander Dumas pere/Franz Liszt
    • Highly adjacent: game-thorax-sofa, antiquated-obstruction- midwifery, string-pain-star, belly-beggar-interval
    • Opening Lines: Keats, O’Shaunessey, Wordsworth, Hopkins
    • “No man is an island” (FM)/ “Love is a many splendoured thing” (DN)

    Anne Scott-James-FM, Victoria Glendenning-DN

    MoD

    PM, TS/PA

    KIPO-FM,

    KALW-FM, 08-Apr-2005

    KWAX-FM, 09-Apr-2005

    KXOT-FM, 22-Mar-2008

    28:00, 26251, S

     

    Ga

     

     

    26-Aug-1988

    S38e08

    #483

    ABC #389

    ·          Vocabularies: abetting, juggernaut, plummet, martingale/ farthingale

    ·          Poets: Rupert Brooke, Yeats, Tennyson, WH Auden

    ·          Stepping Stones: Christmas-Lou Grade, steak and kidney-New Orleans, red-wine, Old Vic-Hampton Court

    ·          New meaning: Levels on the splonk, pubcaster, Donald Duck effect, one plus one

    ·          “Once more into the breach, dear friends” (FM)/ “I’ve got a little list” (DN)

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    MoD

    PM, TS/PA

    KIPO-FM,

    KALW-FM, 15-Apr-2005

    KWAX-FM, 16-Apr-2005

    KXOT-FM, 29-Mar-2008

    28:04, 26323, S

     

    Ga

     

     

    1989-xx-xx

    S39e01?

    #???

    ABC 390

    Formerly VII-51
    • Verses: G.K. Chesterton/The Rolling English Road, Dylan Thomas, Louis McNeese, John Betjeman
    • Pub Signs: Eagle and child, the dog and duck, the fox and grapes, Jack Straw’s castle
    • Neighbours: deluxe/delude/deluge, repository/repose / repossess, scratch/scrape/scrap, spotty/spouse/spout
    • Common prefix: mis-, pre-, ante-, mid-/over-
    • "Your eyes are the eyes of a woman in love” (FM) / “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” (DN)

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    MoD

    PM, TS/PA

    CE/MH, 00-10-07

    KIPO-FM,

    KALW-FM, 22-Apr-2005

    KWAX-FM, 23-Apr-2005

    KXOT-FM, 05-Apr-2008

    28:01, 26275, S

     

    Ga

     

     

    1989-xx-xx

    S39e01?

    #???

    ABC 391
    • Verbal Vagaries: all the letters except “e”, all on the upper row of keys, palindrome, anagram
    • Origins and Derivations: pulling a leg, odour of sanctity, hoodwink, peter out
    • Differences of Opinion: arguing with a woman is like airmailing the Times in a high wind
    • Definitions: galumph, calisthenics, budgerigar, arsenic
    • “Round the World in 80 days” (FM) / “A little learning is a dangerous thing” (DN)

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    MoD

    PM, TS/PA

    KIPO-FM,

    KALW-FM, 29-Apr-2005

    KWAX-FM, 30-Apr-2005

    KXOT-FM, 12-Apr-2008

    28:12, 26298, S

     

    Ga

     

     

    c. 1967-8 Frank bought his Corsican villa “last year” = about

    1966-7

    IA

    ABC #221?
    • Vocabularies: eupeptic, chupatty, megalith, phagomania
    • Spy Novels: John le Carre, Helen McInnes, Ian Fleming, James Varla
    • Poems: Richard Barne, Lord Byron, Shakespeare, Thomas Hood
    • Opera: Il Trovatore, barcarolle, Die Fledermaus, Cosi von tutti
    • Marriage: Oscar Wilde, Diogenes, Hamlet, Oscar Wilde
    • “Old soldiers never die” (FM) / “There is a tide in the affairs of men” (DN)

    DP-FM, ASJ-DN

    JL

    JL, (TS)

    CE

    Mislabeled as MAS 010201

    27:45, 8,132 KB

    fair, encoding artifacts

     

     

     

     

    c. 1969

     

    IB-01

    ABC #223?

    ·          Vocabularies: scree, ptosis, tonsure, isocracy

    ·          Lorna Doone, Hiawatha, Clara Piggety in David Copperfield, Tom Jones

    ·          Poetry: Harry Lauder, James Barrie, Shelley, David Garrick

    ·          Initials: AWOL, BASIC English, Euromart, Flak

    ·          Shakespeare: Antony & Cleopatra, Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Merry Wives of Windsor

    ·          “Wonders will never cease” (FM) / “Our fears do make us traitors” (DN)

    DP-FM, ASJ-DN

    JL

    JL, (TS)

    CE

    010216

    27:49, 8,150 KB

    good, earlier than WITF episodes?

     

     

     

     

     

     

    ·                       

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    ·                       

     

     

     

     

     

     

    c. 1969

     

    IB-04

    ABC #226?

    ·         Vocabularies: misology, nocturne, sapid, kibe

    ·         Modern fiction: This Sporting Life, Edna O’Brien, Catch-22, The Carpetbaggers

    ·         Origins: fifth column, the cockles of one’s heart, antimacassar, dog in the manger

    ·         Plays: Cyrano de Bergerac, Private Lives, The Importance of Being Earnest, Rope

    ·         “All I ask is a tall ship” (DN) / “An ill favoured thing, sir, but mine own” (FM)

    DP-FM, ASJ-DN

    JL

    JL, (TS)

    CE

    010309

    27:44, 8,130 KB

    good, c. WITF episodes

     

     

     

     

     

     

    ·                       

     

     

     

     

     

     

    IB-06

    ABC #228?

    c. 1969

     

    ·          Vocabularies: gargoyle, napu, vinometer, stomacher

    ·          Rulers: negus, begum, nizam, shogun

    ·          Quotations: The Lady of Chalot, Pied Piper, Hiawatha, Charles Kingsley

    ·          Origins: The Marseilles, flirt, roue, tarred with the same brush

    ·          “Yes, madam, nature is creeping up” (DN) / “All things bright and beautiful” (FM)

    DP-FM, ASJ-DN

    JL

    JL, (TS)

    CE

    010323

    27:44, 8,129 KB

    good, c. WITF episodes

     

     

     

     

    IB-07

    ABC #229?

    c. 1969

     

    ·          Vocabularies: hypaethral, pawnee, cairngorn, durbar

    ·          Mums and Dads in Shakespeare: Katarina’s father, Romeo’s mother, Desdemona’s father, Hamlet’s mother

    ·          Origins: windfall, something up your sleeve, cross-grained, stuck up

    ·          Cuts: cut direct, cut infernal, cut sublime, cut indirect

    ·          Nouns of assembly: charm of goldfinches, skulk of foxes, stud of mares, leap of leopards

    ·          “To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive” (FM) / “A stitch in time saves nine” (DN)

    DP-FM, ASJ-DN

    JL

    JL, (TS)

    CE

    010330

    27:44, 8,130 KB

    good, c. WITF episodes

     

     

     

     

     

     

    ·           

     

     

     

     

     

     

    c. 1970

    before decimalization

     

    II-07

    ·          Vocabularies: cedilla, bumpologist, cere cloth, crissive elephantine

    ·          Authors: W.S. Gilbert, Bab Ballads, Mikado, Pirates of Penzance

    ·          Odd Man Out: titles and authors

    ·          Initials: Cr, jn, n.p., sp.gr.

    ·          “Oh the little more and how much it is” (DN) / “When the hounds of Spring are on Winter’s traces” (FM)

    DP-FM, ASJ-DN

    JL

    JL, (TS)

    DmP

    01-09-20

    27:21, 6,411 KB

    good, complete run out music

     

     

     

     

     

     

    ·           

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Possible missing show or series boundary

     

     

     

     

     

     

    1982

    R7:

    01-Aug-2003

    S33exx

    ·          Vocabularies: macaronic, numbles, pragmatic, discobolus

    ·          Four of a kind: beggars or vagabonds, cycle of a four-stroke engine, four horses of Apocalypse, table tennis paddle surfaces

    ·          Second Lines: Oft in the stilly night, gather ye rosebuds while ye may, destruction of Sennacharib, Wordsworth

    ·          Miscellaneous divinations: sciomancy, astragalomancy, capnomancy, omphalomancy

    ·          “Henry the fourth, part one” (FM) / “For whom the bell tolls” (DN)

    DP-FM, IT-DN

    AF

    PM, TS/PA

    PC D/L

    27:24, 25703, S

     

    G

     

     

     

     

    ·         gizzard

     

     

     

     

     

     

    1986-1990

     

    VIIIB-53

    ·         Three Of A Kind: Cuddy/nirrup/Pronkers, Egyptian Finger/Mexican Whisk/Japanese Barnyard, Nickname /Newt/Apron, Billy O/Cat On Hot Bricks/Nobody’s Business

    ·         Predictions: Keats Endymion, Karl Marx Das Kapital, Talking Pictures, Captain E. J. Smith of the Titanic

    ·         Feelings of Inadequacy: lack of nursery rhyme books, comics, caterpillars as pets, can’t a start a clean towel

    ·         Verbal composites: spendthrift, killjoy, spitfire, breakneck

    ·          “Maybe It’s Because I’m A Londoner” (FM) /  “What Can’t Be Cured Must Be Endured” (DN)

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    MoD

    PM, PA

    CE/MH, 00-10-26

    27:18, 7999,

    Good

    7,999 KB

    no credits

    --

     

     

     

     

     

    1986-1990

     

    VIIIB-55

    ·          Unlikely Connections: Ruthless Rhymes/Coldstream Guards, Sir Christopher Wren/Nell Gwen/Last dodo, Trooper Silas T. Comberbech/Ancient Mariner, Eric Little by Little/Field Marshal Montgomery

    ·          Origins and Derivations: at sixes and sevens, dressed up to the nines, grapes of wrath, Julia Ward Howe, conspiracy of silence

    ·          Newfangled nursery rhymes: personbird fly away home, ride a gray mare to Banbury Fair, this little Thatcher went to market, queen was in the parlour eating brown enriched bread

    ·          A sentence with all the letters in it

    ·          “Eureka!” (FM) /  “Too Marvelous for Words” (DN)

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    MoD

    PM, PA

    CE

    001103

    27:52, 8,168 KB

     

    Good

    8,168 KB

    no credits

     

     

     

     

    Unknown

    34 years = c.1990

    VIIIX-91

    ·          …

    ·          Phrases: levels on the splonk, pubcaster, Donald Duck effect, one plus one

    ·          “Once more into the breach dear friends, once more” (FM) /  “I’ve got a little list” (DN)

    DP-FM, AF-DN

    MoD

    PM, PA

    CE

    001012

    15:43, 4,605 KB

     

    Good, but incomplete missing 1st half

    4,605 KB

    no credits

     

     

     

     

    Stories Only

     

    A Compilation Of My Word Stories

    ·          “All My Possessions For A Moment Of Time ” (FM)

    ·          “Never Underestimate The Power Of A Woman” (DN)

    ·          “He Who Hesitates Is Lost” (DN)[6]

    ·          “Dirty British Coaster with a Salt Stained Smokestack” (FM)

    ·          “Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth” (FM)

    ·          “There’s Many a Slip ‘twixt the Cup and the Lip” (DN)

    ·          “See What the Boys in the Back Room Will Have” (DN)

    ·          “If Music Be the Food of Love, Play On” (FM)

    ·          “There Are Fairies at the Bottom of Our Garden” (FM)

    ·          “Distance Lends Enchantment To the View” (DN)

    ·          “A Pun Is the Lowest Form of Wit” (FM)

    ·          “At Christmas I No More Desire a Rose” (DN)[7]

    ·          “Busy as a Bee” (FM)

    ·          “Oh Mistress Mine, Where Are You Roaming?” (FM)

    ·          “He Travels Fastest Who Travels Alone” (DN)

    ·          “Noel” (FM)

    ·          “Mary Had a Little Lamb” (DN)

    ·          “Parle Madame Muir” (FM)

    ·          “Anchors Aweigh” (DN)

    ·          “Tomorrow To Fresh Woods and Pastures New” (DN)

    ·          “A Source of Innocent Merriment” (FM)

    ·          “Six of One and a Half a Dozen of the Other” (FM)

    ·          “Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime” (DN)

    1978

    or later

    MH

    119:56

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    Collateral Material

    27-Mar-2007

    Comedy

    The Original Godfathers

    Tribute to Denis Norden and Frank Muir

    Paul Jackson

    Produced by Paul Kobrack

    28:01, 26282, S

    BBC 4 web

    Ga

    06-Sep-2007

    Comedy

    The Tall Guy

    Tribute to Denis Norden

    Steve Punt

    Produced by Mike Canah

    28:10, 26416, S

    BBC 4 web

    Ga

     

    [1] Radio Times, 28 December 1956 (v. 133), p.24.

    [2] Recorded c. Jul 1974 because it is stated that Frank’s 25th wedding anniversary occurs between recording & broadcast.

     

    [3] Frank mentions his Irreverent Guide to Social History book.

    [4] This and the following episode probably fall somewhere between S35e06 and S36e05 based upon the TS numbers. But there is no indication whether they belong to series 35, series 36, or somewhere else entirely.

    [5] Broadcasts changed from Wednesdays to Tuesdays in mid-series. (Radio Times)

    [6] Although many of the quotations are the same as some of those in the full shows, they are in fact different stories.

    [7] This story IS identical to the Bedford-supplied full show.