Wordaholics

Last Edited: 27-Mar-2012 A Global British Comedy Collaborative document. Edited by John Lucas
Broadcast source is BBC Radio Four unless otherwise indicated. Recording quality is considered good unless otherwise indicated.


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20-Feb-2012

1-1
  • Letter of the Week: J
  • Toponyms of the Pops: Albany beef, Melton pod,
    Picadilly weepers
  • Cliche Corner: the best things in life are free, there's
    more than one way to skin a cat
  • Short and Tweet
  • New Words for Old: Whisty poop, giff-gaff, fairy sparks, brandreth

Stephen Fry, Lloyd Langford, Natalie Haynes, Milton Jones
Gyles Brandreth
Writers: Jon Hunter and James Kettle
Producer: Claire Jones

27:54, 26106, S

27-Feb-2011 1-2
  • Most Overused: 29, innit and big-time, brillo and gd,
    pleasantries
  • Letter of the Week: X , double cross, Xerxes' tears,
    Xerox queen, Xmas
  • Phobias: dypnophobia, gelotophobia, cherophobia,
    consecolatophobia
  • Not in So Many Words
  • Terms of the Trade: magician, witches, ice hockey
  • New Words for Old: able wackets, chummage,
    clapper dodgeon, rantipole

Natalie Haynes, Michael Rosen, Arthur Smith, Paul Sinha
Gyles Brandreth
Writers: Jon Hunter and James Kettle
Producer: Claire Jones

27:37, 25849, S
05-Mar-2012 1-3  

Jack Whitehall, Milton Jones, Susie Dent, Natalie Haynes
Gyles Brandreth
Writers: Jon Hunter and James Kettle
Producer: Claire Jones

 
12-Mar-2012 1-4
  • Words you would ban: medal (v.), ultimate and literally, myself, hot desking
  • Letter of the Week: O, Oliver's scull, owl in an ivy bush, Organigram, out at elbow
  • Cockney rhyming slang: ally Mcgraw, dame Edna,
    sausage, Conan Doyle
  • Cliche Corner: can't your dog new tricks, a rolling stone gathers no moss
  • Short but tweets
  • New words for old: hotcockles, mouthfriend, madgehowlett, poetaster

Natalie Haynes, Michael Rosen, Arthur Smith, Paul Sinha
Gyles Brandreth
Writers: Jon Hunter and James Kettle
Producer: Claire Jones

28:00, 26209, S
19-Mar-2012 1-5
  • Words that make you happy: homophobic, blurb, apacholicatosis, anything with T
  • Letter of the Week: P, plowman's lunch, partridge in a pear tree, poor man's Jersey, poor man's pork, poor man's piano, poor man's men
  • Toponyms of the Pops: Chicago piano, Newcastle disease, Whitehall Jack, Glasgow kiss, Westminster wedding, Suffolkcation, Yemen Zest
  • Cliches: too many cooks,
  • Short but Tweets
  • New Words for Old: cronk, knock knobbler, hansle,

Jack Whitehall, Milton Jones, Natalie Haynes, Susie Dent
Gyles Brandreth
Writers: Jon Hunter and James Kettle
Producer: Claire Jones

27:37, 25849, S
26-Mar-2012 1-6
  • Most beautiful word: ululation, bed, egg, ostridge-sized
  • Letter of the Week: F, flashing a tattler, Fanny Adams, five-finger discount, flirty fishing, French bath, French embassy, French ache, French marble, French drive, French velvet
  • Phobias: metrophobia, linnophobia, cackophobia, mycophobia, panelshowbia
  • Not in so many words:
  • Terms of the trade: archery, mediums,
  • New words for old: cockshut, taplash, pulfin, giglet,

Richard Herring, Natalie Haynes, Alex Horne, Jenny Eclair
Gyles Brandreth
Writers: Jon Hunter and James Kettle
Producer: Claire Jones

27:54, 26110, S

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