My Word - Series 9 Omnibus (Part Two)

Five more episodes of the ninth series of the radio comedy panel show My Word, originally broadcast on the BBC Home Service in summer 1962. All five feature panellists Frank Muir, Denis Norden, Nancy Spain and Dilys Powell, and are presented by Jack Longland.

0:00 - Series 9 Episode 5, 29th July 1962
Definitions: Emeritus, Perigee, Salacious, Telearchics
Mythology: Atalanta, Atlantis, Bucephalus, Calypso
Origins: Lay It On With A Trowel, Sail The High Seas, Feel Hipped, Browbeat
Shakespeare: The alternative title to Twelfth Night; the names of Shakespeare's children; plays with more than one part; "no, 'tis not so deep as a well nor so wide as a church door..."
Phrases: "Here's to the girl with a pair of blue eyes...", "I wonder who's kissing her now..."

27:36 - Series 9 Episode 6, 5th August 1962
Definitions: Planchette, Frondescence, Brio, Caoutchouc
Quotations: "Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace the day's disasters in his morning face...", "When old age shall this generation waste, thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe than ours...", "He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force...", "I remember, I remember, the fir trees dark and high..."
Characters: Monsieur Beaucaire, Blind Pew, Modestine, Edward Murdstone
Origins: Little Englander, Doily, IQ, A Comb Out
Phrases: "Oh, for the touch of a vanished hand...", "One flower makes no garland..."

54:58 - Series 9 Episode 7, 12th August 1962
Definitions: Irenic, Bandicoot, Neuroma, Naze
Mythology: Hippolyta, Mercury, Hygeia, Hydra
Nursery Rhymes: Doctor Foster Went To Gloucester; Tom, Tom, The Piper's Son; Little Nancy Etticoat; See-Saw, Margery Daw
Origins: Achilles Tendon, Horsepower, Gamut, Mews
Phrases: "Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner...", "Oh death, where is thy sting..."

1:22:35 - Series 9 Episode 8, 19th August 1962
Definitions: Mattoid, Oleander, Bogle, Babouche
Who, What & Why: "Poor fellow, his was an untoward fate...", "The last great Englishman is low...", "O captain! My captain! Our fearful trip is done...", "Just for a handful of silver he left us, just for a riband to stick in his coat..."
Origins: From Alpha To Omega, Hold Aloof, Printer's Devil, Knock Knock Who's There
Phrases: "The shape of things to come...", "Anything awful makes me laugh..."

1:50:20 - Series 9 Episode 9, 26th August 1962
Definitions: Gibus, Allotheism, Pachyderm, Bitterling
Names: The submarine in 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea; the four fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream; Shakespeare's final play; Peter Rabbit's three sisters
Origins: Jeroboam, Cab, Cue, Atlas
Writing Styles: "There's a young man hid with me, in comparison with which young man I am a Angel. That young man hears the words I speak. That young man has a way pecooliar to himself, of getting at a boy, and at his heart, and at his liver..."; "The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went..."; "It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study?"; "Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them?"
Phrases: "When you come to the end of a perfect day...", "The age of chivalry is gone..."