My Word - Series 24 Omnibus (Part Two)

Five more episodes of the twenty-fourth series of the BBC Radio Four comedy panel show My Word, originally broadcast in late 1973, featuring Frank Muir, Denis Norden, Dilys Powell and Anne Scott-James with host Jack Longland. Episode 8 unfortunately contains intermittent audio problems, but remains mostly listenable.

0:00 - Series 24 Episode 6, 6th November 1973
Definitions: Myriologue, Waterbury, Snickersnee, Rantipole
Origins: Laconic, Galoshes
Dialect Words: Farntickles, Cobbleducks, Scribs, Kervag
Phrases: "Pop goes the weasel...", "Hard words break no bones..."

25:08 - Series 24 Episode 7, 13th November 1973
Definitions: Zombie, Iapp, Smellie, Euphory
Observations On Women: "The silliest woman can manage a clever man, but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool...", "Every woman is at heart a rake...", "I expect that woman will be the last thing civilised by man...", "A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke..."
Common Denominators: Candle Snuff, Dryad's Saddle, Spindleshank, Blusher, Destroying Angel; Sir Christopher Wren, Scarlatti, Captain Kidd, Nell Gwynne, The Last Dodo; Sophia of Brunswick, Caroline of Ansbach, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Caroline of Brunswick, Mary of Teck, Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon; Steeloops, Starloops, Sway Circles, Shun Hooks, Semi-Circle Ws
Phrases: "Double double toil and trouble...", "A woman’s work is never done..."

50:10 - Series 24 Episode 8, 20th November 1973
Definitions: Sycophant, Fallalery, Artifact, Kazoo
Misquotations: "Pride goeth before a fall...", "Chewing the cud of sweet and bitter fancy...", "Such stuff as dreams are made of...", "By the skin of my teeth..."
Inn Signs: The Green Man, The Rose & Crown, The Talbot, The Goat & Compasses
Phrases: "What’s the good of a home if you’re never in it?", "Let us now praise famous men and the fathers who begat us..."

1:15:06 - Series 24 Episode 9, 27th November 1973
Definitions: Ecumenical, Gregory Powder, Belomancy, Snip Snap Snorem
Insults: "He has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful...", "[He is] an archangel a little damaged...", "He became a sort of village atheist, brooding and blaspheming over the village idiot...", "He is a sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity..."
Differences: Easy & Simple, Rich & Wealthy, Great & Large, Clever & Intelligent
Phrases: "The Pirates of Penzance...", "He who hesitates is lost..."

1:40:05 - Series 24 Episode 10, 4th December 1973
Definitions: Hallelujah, Charisma, Egregious, Spatterdash
Personal Summaries: "He is commonly a wretch, who supports with insolence and is paid with flattery...", "It is the one ultimate and sacred thing which cannot be criticised; our relations with it are direct and even divine...", "It is the extreme form of censorship...", "It is a pistol let off at the ear, not a feather to tickle the intellect..."
Origins: Bean Feast, Lotus Eater
Phrases: "Goodbye, Mr Chips...", "A time to be born and a time to die..."