My Word - Series 36 Omnibus (Part One)

The first four episodes of the thirty-sixth series of the BBC Radio Four comedy panel show My Word, originally broadcast in winter 1985-86, featuring Frank Muir, Denis Norden, Dilys Powell and Antonia Fraser with host Michael O'Donnell. 0:00 - Series 36 Episode 1, 31st December 1985 Bibliophily: Cottage, Fanfare, Macabre, Little Gidding; Anobia, Physonura(?), Psocoptera; Black Books; Essay On Silence & Memoirs Of An Amnesiac Male Chauvinism: "I am assured that God hath revealed to some in this our age, that it is more than a monster in nature that a woman should reign and bear empire above a man...", Samuel Johnson On Women Preachers, "O woman! In our hours of ease uncertain, coy and hard to please...", "Women are only children of larger growth..." Invented Words: Doldrumiser, Grawby, Sheba, Absquatulate Hyphenated Threesomes: Hazardly Carefree, Coronary Palpitation, Memorable Wayside Flower, Maternal Mollusc Phrases: "Twelfth Night, or what you will...", "Nobody knows the trouble I've seen..." 27:06 - Series 36 Episode 2, 7th January 1986 Definitions: Gizzard, Samite, Lurid, Luscious Bread & Butter: Staff Of Life, William Collins, Serving Vessel, George Martin Lane Differences: Jocose & Jocular, Impromptu & Extemporary, Fable & Parable, Complacent & Complaisant Phrases: "Tales from the Vienna woods...", "By the time I get to Phoenix..." 54:25 - Series 36 Episode 3, 14th January 1986 What's In Common: Straw, Cutty, Alderman, Dudheen, Nosewarmer; Grief, Heavens, Lord, Gracious; Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday; Brace Oneself, Beside The Mark, Parting Shot, Point Blank Origins: Upshot, Filbert Nut, Nightmare, Mum's The Word Truisms Binomials: Waterborne Debris, Communal Clamour, Garb Of Repentance, Minded By Circumspect Phrases: "Hotel du Lac...", "The walrus and the carpenter..." 1:21:18 - Series 36 Episode 4, 21st January 1986 Definitions: Cicatrice, Nostrum, Hippogriff, Palpebrate What's In Common: Tasset, Vambrace, Pauldron, Plastron; Boar's Head, Fleur De Lis, Fox's Mask, Lazy Footman; Sir Guy the Crusader, Thomas Winterbottom Hance, Bishop of Rum-Ti-Foo; Lamb To The Slaughter, Still Small Voice, Faint Yet Pursuing, Little Foxes This & That: Change & Decay, Needle & Thread, Sceptre & Crown, Purple & Gold Phrases: "My word is my bond...", "An American in Paris..."