My Word - Series 11 Omnibus (Part One)

Seven episodes from the eleventh series of the radio comedy panel show My Word, originally broadcast on the BBC Home Service in winter 1963/64. All feature Frank Muir, Denis Norden, Nancy Spain and Dilys Powell, and 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 radio listings, so some guesswork has been used in the arrangement of this omnibus.

0:00 - Series 11 Episode 3, 10th December 1963
Definitions: Galantine, Lamasery, Miscibility, Cucking Stool
Nursery Rhymes: Three Bags Of Wool, Sailed In A Wooden Shoe, Three Little Pigs, Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum
Origins: To Rat, Dago, Catherine Wheel, Hussy
Foreign Sayings: In Vino Veritas, Sans Culotte, Soi Disant, Pis Allet
Phrases: "Revenge is a kind of wild justice...", "I'm getting married in the morning..."

27:42 - Series 11 Episode 4, 17th December 1963
Definitions: Gharry, Cryptaesthesia, Shako, Cuisse
Mythology: Baucis & Philemon, Daedalus & Icarus, Orpheus & Eurydice, Jason & Medea
Origins: Toast, Pass The Buck, Skylarking, Slewed
Literature & Author: The Barsetshire Chronicles; A Miser, A Misanthrope & A Hypocrite; Codlin, Short & Mrs Jarley; The Tullivers
Phrases: "I am a citizen of the world...", "I don't want to play in your yard..."

55:16 - Series 11 Episode 5 (1963 Christmas Special), 24th December 1963
Definitions: Vails, Nixie, Maffick, Algidity
Christmas Shows By: Brandon Thomas, Enid Blyton, Kenneth Grahame, Lyman Frank Baum
Quotations: "Come, landlord, fill the flowing bowl until it doth run over...", "Goodnight ladies, goodnight ladies...", "God bless the master of this house, likewise the mistress too; and all the little children who round the table grow...", "Twas on a Monday morning when I beheld my darling, she looked so neat and charming in every high degree..."
Cracker Mottos: "Christmas fare is rich and good; lots of turkey, lots of pud...", "As the snow lay crisp and deep, all the kids lay fast asleep...", "Coming home on Christmas Eve, a father's steps began to weave...", "Christmas games are oh so jolly, 'neath the mistletoe and holly..."
Phrases: "Joys, like beauty, are skin deep...", "She walks in beauty, like the night..."

1:22:55 - Series 11 Episode 6, 31st December 1963
Definitions: Hydromel, Ultimogeniture, Nidification, Opsimath
Gulliver's Travels: Glumdalclitch, Big Endians & Little Endians, Houyhnhnms & Yahoos, Struldbrugs
Quotations: "They love the Good, they worship Truth, they laugh uproariously in youth...", "Kathleen Mavourneen, the grey dawn is breaking...", "Here's a health unto His Majesty, with a fa-la-la-la la-la-la...", "Alas, my love, you do me wrong to cast me off discourteously..."
Who, Where & What: Thornfield Hall, Manderley, Sherlock Holmes' First Appearance, Edward & Jane Murdstone
Phrases: "In the great right of an excessive wrong...", "I'm going to wash that man right out of my hair..."

1:50:30 - Series 11 Episode 7, 7th January 1964
Definitions: Jacobus, Herbarium, Mavourneen, Barbican
Who & What: "With all thy faults, I love thee still..."; "It combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity..."; "Earth hath not anything to show more fair..."; "Though more than half the world was his, he died without a rood his own; and borrow'd from his enemies six foot of ground to lie upon..."
Origins: With A Jaundiced Eye, Lantern Jawed, Peg Out, Dead Heat
Ex: Ex Gratia, Ex Officio, Ex Libris, Ex Partie
Phrases: "The bigger they come, the harder they fall...", "I have nothing to declare except my genius..."

2:17:42 - Series 11 Episode 8, 14th January 1964
Definitions: Hebetude, Scut, Mezzanine, Herby
Reason For: The Feud In Lorna Doone, The Tortoise Winning The Race, Rip Van Winkle Leaving Home, Caesar Mistrusting Cassius
Quotations: "They stole little Bridget for seven years long; when she came down again, her friends were all gone...", "I intended an Ode and it turn'd to a Sonnet; it began a la mode, I intended an Ode...", "Bid me to live and I will live, thy protestant to be...", "Hark, where my blossoming pear-tree in the hedge leans to the field and scatters on the clover..."
Origins: Penicillin, Gout, Go Through The Mill, A Man With No Scruples
Phrases: "And so to bed...", "There is a happy land far, far away..."