My Word - Series 16 Omnibus (Part Two)

Five surviving episodes concluding the sixteenth series of the radio comedy panel show My Word, originally broadcast on the BBC Home Service in late 1966, 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 16 Episode 6, 11th October 1966
Definitions: Concatenation, Portmanteau Word, Elixir, Orris
Mythology: Uranus, Lernaean Hydra, Hebe, Ker
Quotations: "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day; the lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea...", "When Britain first, at heaven's command, arose from out the azure main...", "Quit? Quit, for shame? This will not move, this cannot take her; if of herself she will not love, nothing can make her...", "Fear no more the lightning flash, nor the all-dreaded thunder stone; fear not slander, censure rash; thou hast finished joy and moan..."
Abbreviations: FD, SI, AV, RI
Phrases: "Festina lente...", "The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton..."

27:35 - Series 16 Episode 14, 6th December 1966
Definitions: Effendi, Irenicon, Couvade, Moa, Libidinous, Hemistich, Suilline, Saltarello
Quotations: "I dream'd that, as I wander'd by the way, bare winter suddenly was changed to spring, and gentle odours led my steps astray...", "They say it was a shocking sight after the field was won; for many thousand bodies here lay rotting in the sun...", "God doth not need either man's work or his own gifts; who best bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state is kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed and post o’er land and ocean without rest...", "Physicians of the utmost fame were called at once, but when they came, they answered as they took their fees..."
Origins: Pinks, Rosemary For Remembrance, Pommie, Sadism
Phrases: "One volunteer is worth ten pressed men...", "I come from haunts of coot and hern..."

55:14 - Series 16 Episode 15, 13th December 1966
Definitions: Indigent, Ballyrag, Spurrier, Staggard
Mythology: Erinyes, Androcles & The Lion, Whose Mother Dressed Him As A Girl, Asclepius
Origins: Music Hath Charms, Ouija Board, Melodrama, Maroon
Who & What: A hateful tax levied upon commodities; Who said "It isn't etiquette to cut anyone you're introduced to. Remove the joint!"; Who said "Three things I never lend: my hoss, my wife and my name..."; Who said "Give me but one firm spot on which to stand, and I will move the earth..."
Phrases: "The dawn comes up like thunder...", "Where there's a will, there's a way..."

1:22:55 - Series 16 Episode 16, 20th December 1966
Definitions: Compotator, Opah, Prurient, Formication, Brill, Penniform, Nihility, Bolide
Mythology: Who Kidnapped Helen Of Sparta, Thor, Freyr, Two Drowned Lovers
Origins: The Oaks, Sport One's Oak, Ruritanian, Rub Of The Green
Phrases: "It's a great day for the Irish...", "Mad, bad and dangerous to know..."

1:50:50 - Series 16 Episode 17, 27th December 1966
Definitions: Phrontistery, Carphology, Ferriage, Botts
Mythology: Ate, How Medea Escaped With The Golden Fleece, Laomedon, Callisto
Quotations: "Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more, ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, and with forced fingers rude, shatter your leaves before the mellowing year...", "He thought he saw an albatross that fluttered round the lamp; he looked again and found it was a penny-postage stamp...", "They that have power to hurt and will do none, that do not do the thing they most do show, who, moving others, are themselves as stone; unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow...", "Tell me the tales that to me were so dear: long, long ago, long, long ago..."
Who, Why & What: "Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall, and some whisky afterward, as he was rarther pious...", "Money is indeed the most important thing in the world, and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis...", "There are two things I am confident I can do very well: one is an introduction to any literary work, stating what it is to contain and how it should be executed in the most perfect manner, and the other is a conclusion showing from various causes why the execution has not been equal to what the author promised to himself and to the public...", "Poor Pope will grieve a month, and Gay a week, and Arbuthnot a day; St John himself will scarce forbear to bite his pen and drop a tear; the rest will give a shrug and cry, 'I'm sorry, but we all must die'..."
Phrases: "There's a long, long trail a-winding...", "Was this the face that launched a thousand ships..."