My Word Series 15 Omnibus Part One

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The first six episodes of the fifteenth series of the radio comedy panel show My Word, originally broadcast on the BBC Home Service in autumn 1965, 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 15 Episode 1, 9th November 1965 • Definitions: Hobbledehoy, Dramaturge, Lentitude, Twit • Mythology: Kidnapper of Helen of Troy; Who swam the Hellespont nightly; What were the Centaurs; Pygmalion's sister • Origins: Spinster, All Moonshine, Shot His Bolt, Sardonic Smile • Who, Why What: A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people... , Mr Scaramanga, It is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death, and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honour... , It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood; our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good... • Foreign Words: Prosciutto, Bel Paese, Assiette Anglaise, Wiener Schnitzel • Phrases: Healing is a matter of time... , I dream of Jeanie with the light brown hair... • 27:38 - Series 15 Episode 2, 16th November 1965 • Definitions: Solatium, Wowser, Widgeon, Portfire • Mythology: Helios, Chaos, Laestrygones, Terminus • Rhyming Slang: Joanna, Kate Sydney, Rabbit Pork, Scapa Flow • Origins: Strain At A Gnat Swallow A Camel, On His Uppers, Pleased As Punch, Show One's True Colours • Phrases: Half a loaf is better than no bread... , And those behind cried 'forward' and those before cried 'back'... • 55:16 - Series 15 Episode 3, 23rd November 1965 • Definitions: Ewer, Clarence, Clavicle, Heptad • Mythology: Nemesis, Boreas, Aesculapius, Cassiopeia • Quotations: O where and o where is your Highland laddie gone? , Pussy said to the Owl, 'You elegant fowl, how charmingly sweet you sing! Oh, let us be married; too long we have tarried, but what shall we do for a ring?' , O, what a fall there was there, my countrymen! Then I, and you, and all of us fell down, whilst bloody treason flourished over us ... , Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, before we too into the Dust descend... • Origins: Utopia, Leave No Stone Unturned, Cast Pearls Before Swine, Buckshee • Phrases: Let them eat cake... , You left behind a broken doll... • 1:22:58 - Series 15 Episode 4, 30th November 1965 • Definitions: Febrile, Cinerary Urn, Wain, Penology • Mythology: Lares Penates, Nike, Metis, Morpheus • Rhyming Slang: Tit For Tat, Sausage Mash, Bo Peep, Butcher's Hook • Origins: Snuffed It, Take Time By The Forelock, Eye To The Main Chance, Smell Of The Lamp • Last Words: Poor, unhappy me, a victim to nervousness and fancied terrors, and all because of my money... , I killed one man to save a hundred thousand, a villain to save innocents, a savage wild beast to give repose to my country... , Oh Rouen, I fancy you will one day rue my death... , From a private station you have raised me to that of a countess, from a countess you have made me a queen, and now you can raise me one step higher; to be a saint in heaven... • Phrases: For whom the bell tolls... , You made me love you, I didn't want to do it... • 1:50:34 - Series 15 Episode 5, 7th December 1965 • Definitions: Crinkum-Crankum, Barton, Gravid, Dendrologist • Quotations: Wealth I seek not, hope nor love, nor a friend to know me... , Her aunt, who from her earliest youth had kept a strict regard for truth... , If you were the only girl in the world, and I were the only boy... , He crams with cans of poisoned meat the subjects of the king... • Origins: Land Of Milk Honey, Roland For An Oliver, Thumbs Up, To The Nth Degree • Town Produce: Limoges, Edam, Bakewell, Delft • Phrases: Do not go gentle into that good night... , The fleas that tease in the high Pyrenees... • 2:18:10 - Series 15 Episode 6, 14th December 1965 • Definitions: Masque, Feverfew, Germane, Bletherskate • Mythology: Penthesilea, Ceres, Bellona, Hermaphroditus • Foreign Words: Alma Mater, Entrechat, Ex Officio, Demimondaine • Quotations: This time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone... , To Sherlock Holmes, she is always The Woman... , Thou light-winged Dryad of the trees... , Between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupations... • Phrases: As I stroll along the Bois de Boulogne with an independent air... , It was roses, roses all the way...

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