Four more episodes of the twenty-second series of the BBC Radio Four comedy panel show My Word, originally broadcast in late autumn 1971, featuring Frank Muir, Denis Norden, Dilys Powell and Anne Scott-James with host Jack Longland.
0:00 - Series 22 Episode 6, 1st November 1971
Definitions: Clone, Infusoria, Voodoo, Humdinger
Author Of The Week: Gulliver's Travels, Gulliver's Three Other Voyages, Silly & Big & Little People, Girl To Whom Swift Addressed His Journal
Imaginary Clubs: Pikestaff, Wild Horses, Hind Leg, Smilers
Differences: Osiery & Ossuary, Paladin & Palanquin, Polypetalus & Polysepalus, Lithotomy & Lithotrity
Phrases: "Toot Toot Tootsie, goodbye...", "Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea..."
27:20 - Series 22 Episode 7, 8th November 1971
Definitions: Redingote, Felloe, Clepsydra, Backsheesh
Slang: Hot Blanketeer, Odd Come Shortly, Pew Opener’s Muscle, Give A Girl A Green Gown
Differences: Prevaricate & Procrastinate, Cacholong & Cachalot, Iridescent & Irridentist, LIFO & LILO
Phrases: "Nor iron bars a cage...", "He flies through the air with the greatest of ease..."
54:46 - Series 22 Episode 8, 15th November 1971
Definitions: Sciamachy, Mavis, Baldachin, Enuresis
Author Of The Week: Pride & Prejudice, The Lady & The Bennet Sisters, The Eponymous Matchmaker, First Novel
Origins: Chancellor, Dragoons, Quadrivium, Tre-Pol-Pen
Phrases: "Where are the snows of yesteryear...", "The girl that I marry will have to be as soft and as pink as a nursery..."
1:22:06 - Series 22 Episode 9, 22nd November 1971
Definitions: Repoussé, Firkin, Daguerreotype, Bottomry
Author Of The Week: Don Juan, The Eve Of Waterloo, The Hellespont, How & Where He Died
Movement Words: Croquet, Roman Candle, Fool’s Mate, Selling The Dummy
Phrases: "There is a destiny that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we will...", "Don’t cross your bridges till you come to them..."