My Word - Series 34 Omnibus (Part Two)

The final five episodes of the thirty-fourth series of the BBC Radio Four comedy panel show My Word, originally broadcast in early 1984, featuring Frank Muir, Denis Norden, Dilys Powell and Antonia Fraser with host Michael O'Donnell. 0:00 - Series 34 Episode 6, 3rd January 1984 Definitions: Jejune, Simile, Persiflage, Scrannel Second Lines: "For God hath made them so...", "No sleep to mourn when youth and pleasure meet...", "The labour and the wounds are vain...", "That gives it all its flavour..." Malicious Criticism Coinages: Pandemonium, Centrifugal, Blatant, Assassination Phrases: "Rule Britannia...", "Come into the garden, Maud..." 26:58 - Series 34 Episode 7, 10th January 1984 Definitions: Fizgig, Tomalley, Aspergillum, Bdellism What's In Common: Crotchet, Carry-Witchit, Quiblin, Whiblin; Theophile Wagstaff, William Makepeace Thackeray, Michael Angelo Titmarsh; Mary Powell, Catherine Woodcock, Elizabeth Mitchell; Dingbat, Doohickey, Doofer, Gizmo Poetry: "Beneath the rule of men entirely great...", "He went like one that hath been stunned...", "In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove...", "I have forgot much, Cynara..." Uncompleted Cliches: Incontrovertible, Painfully Aware, Ongoing, A Major Phrases: "I want to say thanks for that lovely weekend...", "Hitch your wagon to a star..." 54:08 - Series 34 Episode 8, 17th January 1984 Definitions: Halcyon, Meniscus, Goluptious, Spuddle What's In Common: Waterlily, Carriage, Pigeon, Australian State; Bullets, Hot Peas, Pepper, Vinegar; Fox, Grey, Wolf, Blood, Otter; Common, Big, Mosaic, Digitate Oceanic Poetry: Lonely Sea, Silent Sea, Silver Sea, Sunless Sea Homophones: Bellicose Intent & Assemble, Sham Attack & Indistinct, Novel & Ox-Like Antelope, Corporal Appendage & Depict Phrases: "The pirates of Penzance...", "Do re mi fa so la ti..." 1:21:28 - Series 34 Episode 9, 24th January 1984 Definitions: Gubernatorial, Magniloquent, Cimmerian, Mezzanine Drinks: Sam-Sun Sam-Sun, Socrates, Proverbs, Cartoon What's The Question: Ignorance, Madam; Stonehenge & Murdering Alec; More Than Kith & Rest Is Silence; Four Larks, Two Owls, One Hen & One Wren Heteronyms: Ingress & Captivate, Barren Waste & Abandon, Business Agreement & Shrink, Infuriate & Holy Effluvium Phrases: "Somewhere over the rainbow...", "Someday I'll find you..." 1:47:54 - Series 34 Episode 10, 31st January 1984 Definitions: Hepatic, Crassitude, Pantechnicon, Bugaboo Origins: All My Eye & Betty Martin, Preposterous, Dandelion, Curfew Shakespeare: "But to my mind, though I am native here and...", "That but this blow might be...", "For her own person...", "The native act and figure of my heart..." Private Family Words Singular vs Plural: Show & Glasses, Crystalline & Ball Game, Gasp & Underwear, Vociferate & Air Pump Phrases: "Here today, gone tomorrow...", "There's a sucker born every minute..."