My Word - Series 14 Omnibus (Part Two)

Описание: The final six episodes of the fourteenth series of the radio comedy panel show My Word, originally broadcast on the BBC Home Service in summer 1965, featuring Frank Muir, Denis Norden, Dilys Powell and Anne Scott-James alongside host Jack Longland.

Due to the unchanging cast and paucity of info on recordings, it's difficult to determine the sequence of My Word episodes even with contemporary radio listings, so some guesswork has been used in the arrangement of this omnibus.

0:00 - Series 14 Episode 7, 22nd June 1965
Definitions: Dicker, Abbacy, Gallopade, Wyandotte
Quotations: "Should you ask me whence these stories, whence these legends and traditions...", "Frankie and Johnny were lovers; O Lordy, how they could love...", "We had intended you to be the next prime minister but three; the stocks were sold, the press were squared, the middle class was quite prepared...", "Ha! Whaur ye gaun, ye crowlin ferlie? Your impudence protects you sairly; I canna say but ye strunt rarely..."
Origins: Limerick, Who Pays The Piper Calls The Tune, Peppercorn Rent, Toby Man
What & Where: "It fascinates me; I can sit and look at it for hours...", "It's neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory...", "An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools...", "It is a riddle wrapped up in a mystery inside an enigma..."
Phrases: "I find the medicine worse than the malady...", "Old soldiers never die, they only fade away..."

27:55 - Series 14 Episode 8, 29th June 1965
Definitions: Cellarette, Somerset, Farinose, Fardel
Mythology: Myrmidons, Deucalion, Harpies, Arcadia
Origins: The Dole, Popinjay, Add Zest, Table D'Hôte
Abbreviations: PWD, DMI, PPS, FRAD
Phrases: "Our watchword is security...", "The sound of music..."

55:28 - Series 14 Episode 9, 6th July 1965
Definitions: Acardiac, Chow-Chow, Zingaro, Variolation
Nursery Rhymes: The names of the two dickie-birds; Who made Cock Robin's shroud; Who went to bed with his trousers on, What did Old Mother Hubbard find after going to get tripe?
Origins: Pronto, Quagmire, Agnostic, In The Gods
Wives Of Nobility: Earl, Marquess, Baronet, Maharajah
George Bernard Shaw: "It is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity...", "It ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read...", "It is always wrong; it never solves a problem without creating ten more...", "It's a wonderful thing; what a crime to waste it on children..."
Phrases: "I am monarch of all I survey...", "Ne'er cast a clout till May be out..."

1:23:10 - Series 14 Episode 10, 13th July 1965
Definitions: Tufthunter, Petroleur, Digitigrade, Baldmoney
Shakespeare: "Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety...", He was a man, take him for all in all; I shall not look upon his like again...", "How like a fawning publican he looks! I hate him...", "Away, you scullion! You rampallion! You fustilarian! I'll tickle your catastrophe..."
Origins: Sabotage, Dicey, Sinister, Snob
Abbreviations: RADC, CIA, BRCS, ICBM
Phrases: "Just like the ivy, I'll cling to you...", "The rank is but the guinea stamp..."

1:50:58 - Series 14 Episode 11, 20th July 1965
Definitions: Spoondrift, Izzat, Allergic Rhinitis, Poodle-Faker
Authors: The Citadel, Not As A Stranger, Doctor In The House, The Physician's Tale
Quotations: "Sink me the ship, master gunner - sink her, split her in twain!", "As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination...", "The art of biography is different from geography...", "Auld Nature swears, the lovely dears, her noblest work she classes, O..."
Origins: Exchequer, Little Englander, Weighed In The Balance & Found Wanting, Tommyrot
Characters: Gerard Gerardson & Margaret Brandt; Piscator, Auceps & Venator; Glaucus, Ione & Blind Girl Lydia; Phineas Fletcher & Ursula March
Phrases: "The lamps are going out all over Europe...", "She was a phantom of delight..."

2:18:42 - Series 14 Episode 12, 27th July 1965
Definitions: Recrudescent, Androgynous, Eclectic, Frit-Fly
Authors: Morning Becomes Electra, The Threepenny Opera, Tamburlaine, Six Characters In Search Of An Author
Quotations: "Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, is the immediate jewel of their souls...", "At me you smiled, but unbeguiled, I saw the snare and I retired...", "The ice was here, the ice was there, the ice was all around...", "The sons of the prophet are brave men and bold, and quite unaccustomed to fear..."
Shakespeare Characters: Rosalind, Beatrice, Cordelia, Miranda
Foreign Expressions: O Tempore O Mores, Verbum Sat Sapienti, Cordon Bleu, A Posteriori
Phrases: "United we stand, divided we fall...", "A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose..."