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My Word!

Last Edited: 16-Feb-2019 A Global British Comedy Collaborative document. Edited by John Lucas
Major research provided by Keith Wickham and Martin Hood with assistance from Alexander Lucas and others. My thanks to all who contributed.

Broadcast source is the BBC Home Service and BBC Radio Four unless otherwise indicated. Recording quality is considered good unless otherwise indicated.

Table of Contents

Pilot and Series 1-8 (1956, 1957-1961) The Robertson-Spain Era
Series 9-11 (1962-1964) The Powell-Spain Era
Series 12-28 (1964-1977) The Powell-James-Longland Era (next page)
Series 29-32 (1978-1982) John Julius Norwich and Series 33 (1982-1983) Antonia Fraser
Series 34-38 (1983-1988) Michael O'Donnell
Documentaries and Collateral Material

Notes:

Dates and sequence: We do not have a studio log chronicling for every episode the recording and broadcast dates, the Transcription Service number, contents or participants.
We do have a mostly complete list of broadcast dates and the TS numbers.
We know that the TS number sequence is not necessarily the order of broadcasts and that not all episodes were transcribed for distribution.
For most episodes we cannot be absolutely certain what the original broadcast date or sequence was.
This document will follow general chronology of dates and series but primarily focus on the TS numbers. If non-TS episodes do surface, we'll note them.
Explanation of color: As with other GBCC documents, rows in gray denote episodes thought to have existed but for which no recording exists in our collection.

Panellists:

Alfred Marks
Antonia Fraser
Anne Scott-James
Barry Took
Denis Norden
Dilys Powell (1901-1995)
E. Arnot Robertson
Edward Blishen
Frank Muir (1920-1998)
Gay Search
Isobel Barnett
Irene Thomas
Joan Bakewell
John Wells
Katherine Whitehorn
Libby Purves
Lionel Hale
Nancy Spain
P D James
Pamela Frankau
Ted Kavanagh
Victoria Glendenning

Chairpersons:

John Arlott [1956-1957 only]
Jack Longland (b.1905-d.1993) [1957-1977]
John Julius Norwich [1978-1981]
Antonia Fraser [1982]
Michael O’Donnell [1983-1990]

Compilers:

Edward J. Mason (not credited) (1957-1971)
Jack Longland (1971-1977)
Peter Moore (1971-1990)

Producers:

Tony Shryane
Bobby Jaye
Pete Atkin
Neil Cargill

Pilot and Series 1-8 (1956, 1957-1961) The Robertson-Spain Era

Broadcast Date	Series- Episode	TS number	Contents	Cast	Parameters
06-Jun-1956 Midland Home Service	pilot	--		Barnett, Muir, Spain, Norden Arlott/Mason/Shryane
01-Jan-1957	1-1			Barnett, Muir, Spain, Norden Arlott/Mason/Shryane
08-Jan-1957	1-2?	TS3?	Aeolian Hall spikenard, internecine, gasconade, hammam, tautology, mordent, pinchbeck, mulligrubs Quotations: Hail to thee blithe spirit, Each morning sees some task begun, And the muscles of his brawny arms, The time has come, Lay on MacDuff, And 15 arms went round her waist, Believe me young man, Breathes a man Famous words: Madame Pompador, Henry Ford, Napoleon, Beau Brummel Expressions: kick the bucket, bubble and squeak, I've got the old man of the sea on my back, to give short shrift Initials: BTU, KCMG Mythical situations: Guy Fawkes interrupted by King's Men, Raleigh laid his cloak over a puddle 3ft deep, Caesar/Cleopatra/Marc Anthony, Cromwell's bath occupied by a young lady	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Arlott/Mason/Shryane	27:38, 25949, s
15-Jan-1957	1-3?	TS2, 5 or 8	Aeolian Hall (?) maverick, cornucopia, ethnology, suttee, metatarsis, teetotal, caryatid, swinge Lines: thin red line, marriage lines, breadline, Mason-Dixon Line Quotations: Childe Harold, The Brook, Elegy, To the Cuckoo Misquotations: Don't: put your daughter on the stage, go down into the mine, have any more, trust him Derivations: to eat humble pie, give her the bells and let her fly, mind your Ps and Qs, sandwich Cartoon captions Who Will Free Me From This Turbulent Priest / Dead Dead and Never Called Me Mother	Barnett, Muir, Spain, Norden Arlott/Mason/Shryane	28:12, 26254, s
22-Jan-1957	1-4?	TS2, 5 or 8	Aeolian Hall (?) syllabub, valetudinarian, thimblerig, eldritch, gazebo, samphire, stathe, cayman Quotations: being kissed by a man..., the great grey greasy Limpopo..., a sophistical rhetorician..., it's more than a game... Verses: John Brown's body lies a mouldering in the game, The curfew tolls the parting day, dirty British coaster, will you walk a little faster, if you lift a guinea pig up by the tail, by the living god that made you Quickies mottos: Order of the Garter, BBC, Boy Scouts, RAF Lines before: Twinkle little star, Jack Sprat, Twas brillig, I am the master of my fate, With silver bells, Oh to be in England Quotes: Napoleon, Marie Antoinette, Winston Churchill, Archimedes Proverbs: beauty is skin deep, crime doesn't pay, practice what you preach, don't count your chickens before they hatch Let Not Poor Nellie Starve / Kiss Me Hardy	Barnett, Muir, Spain, Norden Arlott/Mason/Shryane	29:56, 28114, s
29-Jan-1957	1-5	TS2, 5 or 8	parsimony, kilderkin, isobar, fiddley, sacerdotal, consanguineous, polypod, shim, houdah/hookah, picarune/picador, tabor/tabard, misogamist/misogynist Famous servants: Jeeves, Crichton, Sancho Panza, Charmian Quotations: A wet sheet and a flowing sea, O what can ail thee, Not a drum not a funeral note, Match me such marble Anatomical: Helen of Troy, the village blacksmith, Cyrano de Bergerac, Annie Laurie Derivations: sirloin, with colours nailed to the mast, white elephant, green room, to have the lion's share, the baker's dozen, dumdum, Hobson's choice Misquotations: Neither a borrower nor a lender, It was a summer evening, Abou ben Adam awoke one night, From the waterfall he named her, Tis a Sharp Remedy but a sure one for all ills / I feel that I am reserved for some end or other	Barnett, Muir, Spain, Norden Arlott/Mason/Shryane	29:30, 27699, s
05-Feb-1957	1-6	TS4	Great Yarmouth demurrage, demijohn, clarence, clangour, punnet, messuage, mycelium, pinfold Differences: mamba/marimba, caracol/caravelle, sarong/sari, cumberbund/sarabande Derivations: Indian file, if you know a better hole go to it, catherine wheel, cold shoulder Nicknames: Man of blood and iron, man of destiny, man in black, man in the iron mask Misquotations: Come into the garden Maud, It is a far far better thing, My mother bid me bind my hair, I have have heard the mavis singing, Alas poor Yorick, In Flores in the Azores, Try not to pass, Up and down the city road Famous horses: Pegasus, Rum Barbary, Black Bess, Rosinante Of Whom: Jeeves, Shakespeare, Nero, Charles II Quickies: sorrel, hobby, carp, jib Hitch Your Wagon to A Star / I Hold Thee Fast Africa	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Arlott/Mason/Shryane	29:23, 27603, s
12-Feb-1957	1-7	TS1	Spondon, Derby prognathus, lamprey, rockambol, macular, ballistics, boskage, phalarope, onager, caitiff, fleshings, weft, woof Initials: AWOL, SSAFA, VAD, DDT Quotations: The Chilterns, Ye Banks and Braes, The Bells, Owl and the Pussycat Origins: get the sack, when my ship comes home, outside the pale, to play gooseberry Misquotations A Little of What You Fancy Does You good / The Public Be Damned	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Arlott/Mason/Shryane	30:00, 28170, s
19-Feb-1957	1-8	TS9	Winter Gardens, Malvern biretta, larrikin, toccata, kumquat, dimity, flinders, stirk, larrop, coracle, vetch, frugiberous, sorghum, pinnacle/pinocle, rattiplan/ paradiddle, debauch/debouch, gremlin/kremlin Initials: IDV, FANY, WLA, ENSA Quotations: Once more into the breach, What is this life, Ye have wronged, We who are left Derivations: nail to the counter, let the cat out of the bag, ring the changes, lock stock and barrel Misquotations: The log was burning brightly, Cherry ripe, Land of hope and glory, The eleven men at Oxford Latin terms: in loco parentis, in flagrante delicto, in toto, in situ Nice customs curtsey to great kings, It must be a peace without victory	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Arlott/Mason/Shryane	29:38, 27835, s
09-Apr-1957	1-9		Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Arlott/Mason/Shryane
16-Apr-1957	1-10	perhaps TS11 shown here?	Wymondham, Norfolk cassowary, wiffle, gloze, glim, suzerain, megrim, shadrack, hyaloid, fizzgig, deglutition, winnow, bulbul Quotations: My strength is the strength of ten, When Britain at first, The staggered eve, Tom Pearce Real names: The Great Unknown, Little John, William the Silent, The Scarlet Pimpernel Misquotations: Ye mariners of England, Come away Death, And out spake Horatius, Little brown brother, we are the music makers, kinds hearts are more than coronets, Say I'm weary, Man wants but little here below Foreign expressions: corpus delicti, coup d'grace, hic jacet, casus belli Derivations: Yarborough, Sold Down the River, yellow press, cherish a serpent in your bosom	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Arlott/Mason/Shryane	29:15, 27473, s
23-Apr-1957	1-11	TS7	Stratford on Avon prolix, mattamore, murrain, davenport, collywobbles, placket, gymnotus, lingulate, czarina/czarevna, quintin/quintan, microcosm/ macrocosm, plantain/plankton Abbreviations: LSD, UNRRA, CB, OZ Quotations: She dwelt among the untrodden ways, Oh Captain my captain, Was this the face, Is there anybody there?, when the hounds of spring, give to me the life I love, shall I compare thee to a summer's day, gather ye rosebuds while ye may Classic characters: giant Despair, Moll Flanders, David Balfour, Daniel Quilp Derivations: to bury the hatchet, red Indians, Mrs Grundy, put on one's thinking cap Writers' Christian names: Shelley, Longfellow, Byron, Swinburne Foreign phrases: impedimenta, alfresco, recherche, idee fixe References: Bayard, Kipling, Whistler, Stevenson Misquoted Poetry - It was a lover and his lass, The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold, Oh to be in England, Ah what avails the sceptred race	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Arlott/Mason/Shryane	29:33, 27759, s
30-Apr-1957	1-12	perhaps TS13 shown here?	Sparrowsnest Theatre, Lowestoft monandry, guest rope, maulstick, nubile, grimalkin, jalousie, novercal, stridulate Wives: Marc Anthony, David Copperfield, Mister Rochester, Nero Quotations: Drake he is in his hammock, Earth has not anything to show more fair, Where Alph the sacred river ran, Keeping time, time, time, Say not the struggle not availeth, When you are old and grey, If music be the food of love, Roll on thou deep blue ocean Titles: Cry Havock, Perchance to Dream, A Many Splendoured Thing, The Painted Veil Derivations: red tape, not my pidgin, be a toady, I haven't a clue Writer's Names: Sheridan, Macaulay, Jerome, Wilde Heraldry: gules, vert, sable, argent References: Shaw, King George II about Wolfe, Macaulay about Johnson, Bertie Wooster about Jeeves Brown Characters: Father Brown, Capability Brown, Brown Jones and Robertson, Brown Bess Misquoted poetry: They Dined on mince and slices of quince, Of all the girls that are so smart, Tyger tyger buring bright, The kiss of the sun for pardon	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Arlott/Mason/Shryane	29:20, 27552, s
07-May-1957	1-13	TS6	Oxford oleo, cabbalistic, ophiolator, grazier, paronomasia, manumit, loblolly boy, guerdon, sanderling, pettitoes, fuliginous, trews Ships: Drake, Jason, Grenfell, Jack Hawkins Abrreviations: WEA, RYS, AFV, QED quotes Poetry - Aflock of sheep..., The larks are on the wing, A bugle sang truce, Sweet Auburm loviliest village, I know a bank, I hear a sudden cry of pain, Mine be cot beside the hill, Look in my face Novel titles: The Last Enemy, I Have Been Here Before, For Whom the Bell Tolls, This Happy Breed Writers' Christian Names: Coleridge, Chesterton, Emerson, Yeats Heraldry: dexter, sinister, sigeant, rampant Of whom said: Japanese, Wordsworth, Jane Austen, Joshua Reynolds Common roots: stereo-, omni-, tele-, -itis Who said: Duke of Monmouth, Cromwell, Shaw, Roosevelt Misquoted: Helen Thy Beauty is to me, Twas Brillig and the Slithy Toves, Sigh no more ladies, I must down to the seas	Frankau, Muir, Spain, Kavanaugh Arlott/Mason/Shryane	29:12, 27426, s
14-May-1957	1-14	TS10	Bromyard, Hereford inchoate, scutum, suttler, filibuster, gloriole, demiwrap, petronelle, atticate, ortiland, glanders, hominy, burdock Abbreviations: KR, PGA, NATO, SHAPE Quotations: This above all, Sing me a song of time gone by, Twould ring the bells of heaven, I am desolate, Oft in the stilly night, music when soft voices die, now sleeps the crimson petal, A garden is a lovesome thing Little characters: Little Emily, Little Billy, Little Nell, Little Minister Derivations: bunkum, bell book and candle, according to cocker, to fight with windmills Christian names: Bentley, Wodehouse, Surtees, Flecker Criminal Slang: dags, bird, pussies, touch of the seconds Said of: Pitt the Younger, Gibbon, Mary Queen of Scots, Byron Dogs: Flush, Cerberus, Crab, Bullseye Women: Iago, Byron, Scott, Johnson Last Words: Nero, More, Danton, William Rufus Mis Quoted poetry - Out of the night that covers me Black as the pit from pole to pole / When Icicles hang by the wall	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Kavanaugh Arlott/Mason/Shryane	29:40, 27858, s
21-May-1957	1-15	TS12	Aeolian? lapicide, eider, glochidiate, friable, pudsy, mussock, antibody, poppernax, siriasis, succidinadium, badmash, poussette Thriller heroes: Philip Marlowe, Maigret, Templar, Mike Hammer Abbreviations: SJAB, IRHA, CPO, ACGB Quotations: He did not wear his scarlet coat, I am monarch of all I survey, Standing with reluctant feet, Oh Mary go and call the cattle home, stands the church clock at three, my name is Ozymandias, She walks in beauty like the night, full fathom five thy father lies Fictional characters: Fatima, Mr Everyman, Sir Roger de Coverley, The Artful Dodger Derivations: blackmail, crocodile tears, haul over the coals, three sheets in the wind Writers' Christian names: Peacock, Tolstoy, Wells, Luther Criminal slang: stretch, blower, titfer, let your hair down Quotes: Lord Burley, Teddy Roosevelt, Dr Johnson, Baedeker, Wilde, Shaw, Lamb, Dickens, Cleopatra, Cromwell, James I, Wellington Misquoted poetry - Never was heard such a terrible curse, In Scarlet Town where I was born, a sweet disorder in the dress, some talk of Alexander and some of Hercules	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Kavanaugh Arlott/Mason/Shryane	28:40, 26918, s
05-Aug-1957	2-1		Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
12-Aug-1957	2-2		Horton General Hospital	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
19-Aug-1957	2-3		Robert Jones & Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
26-Aug-1957	2-4		Royal Midlands Counties Home, Leamington Spa	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
02-Sep-1957	2-5		Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
09-Sep-1957	2-6		National Radio Show, Earls Court	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
04-Oct-1957	2-7			Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
11-Oct-1957	2-8			Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
possibly 18-Oct-1957	2-9	TS20	zombie, funambulist, eidolon, hinny Characters: Adam Bede, "and Co.", Rowena and Rebecca, Pyramus and Thisbe Quotations: drink deep or taste not, it droppeth as the gentle rain, some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. yo ho ho and a bottle of rum Derivations: made a cat's paw of, o wear one's heart on one's sleeve, on the beam, in soaped pig fashion Remarks about places: London, America, Rome, Germany Shakespeare: Love's Labour Lost, Merchant of Venice, King Lear, Twelfth Night Messing about in boats / We are not amused	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	30:07, 28278, s
25-Oct-1957	2-10	TS18	casurina, dolorite, morpork, carking, ormolu, kloof, miniver, pomander People: Lydia Languish, Salvation Yeo, Sir Willoughby Patterne, Mary Rose Quotations: I will make you broaches, Ben Battle was a soldier bold, You're wounded, Once a jolly swagman Names: Mr Macawber, Mr Squares, Little Dorrit, Mr Pickwick Derivations: Lucullus sups with Lucullus, Meredith we're in, kiss the Blarney Stone, he couldn't say boo to a goose Swearing: damnition, off with his head, I gloat hear me gloat, By Timothy References: Christopher Wren, Napoleon, Robert Peel, Wordsworth Romantic Novels: Ouida, Ethel M Bell, Elinor Glyn, E M Hull If you know of a better hole go to it / Nobly Nobly Cape St Vincent to the north west died away	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	29:55, 28102, s
probably 30-Apr-1958	3-1	TS14	Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford majolica, lobscouse, pruinose, hyperbole Characters and authors: Eric, Umslopogaas, John Ridd, Yorick Quotations: Longfellow, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Noyes, Tennyson Childrens' stories: Huckleberry Finn, Tom Brown's Schoolday, Swiss Family Robinson, Black Beauty Derivations: to catch a Tartar, carpet knights, coggleshill job, or I'm a Dutchman Characters: Mrs Malprop, Hawkeye, the Gay Lothario, Inigo Goliphant Writers' name: Milne, Priestley, Rossetti, Gibbon Charity begins at home / Scratch the Russian you will find the Tartar	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	29:58, 28145, s
07-May-1958	3-2	TS15	Brotherhood House, Rugby harpy, nyctalopia, joseph, plumbago Plays: The Second Mrs Tanqueray, Hedda Gabler, The Alchemist, Barretts of Wimpole Street Quotations: Thomas Huxley, de la Mare, Hood, Shakespeare Legends: Medusa, King Midas, basilisk, Bottom by Puck Derivations: his King Charles' head, too may irons in the fire, to chaff somebody, to get the bird Titles: Ill Met by Moonlight, Sabrina Fair, From Here to Eternity, Of Mice and Men Characters: Nathan Detroit, McTurk, Chirdles' Ash, Flashman Riches are for Spending / Tis very warm weather when one is bed	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	29:27, 27655, s
14-May-1958	3-3	TS19	Northampton General Hospital kobold, salmagundi, propolis, caveat Authors: Harret Beecher Stowe, C J Hine, Marriott, Hardy Quotations: Her manners have not that repose, twinkle twinkle little bat, if you have tears prepare to shed them now, the pig if I'm not mistaken, of birdsong at morning, I'm slain by a fair cruel maid, my lady tempted by a private whim, By thy long grey beard Christian Names: Spenser, Proust, Strindberg, Peacock Derivations: all my eye, as safe as houses, to be a brick, to be had for a mug Who: three lilies in her hand and seven stars in her hair, Sir John Moore, life, a donkey Creatures: leviathan/whale, elephant child, asp, snark Patriotism is not enough / None but the brave deserves the fair	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	29:38, 27830, s
21-May-1958	3-4		Little Theatre, Leicester	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
possibly 28-May-1958	3-5	TS17	hodge, gonfalon, reebok, orc, scaramadge, jorum, wolfram, rammish People: Mr Grimes, Edmund Dantes, Jude Forley, Paul Revere Quotations: Cob was the strongest, Sir Christopher said I'm going to dine with some men, God I will pack and take a train, I shoot the hippopotamus War stories: All Quiet on the Western Front, From Here to Eternity, The Naked and the Dead, The Young Lions Derivations: fits him to a T, the seamy side, Phyrric victory, a thorn in the flesh Quickies: Lizzie Borden, Wilhemine, Don Quixote, village blacksmith People: Dr Temple, Longfellow, Shakespeare, Wordsworth Honesty is the best policy / We have scotched the snake not killed it	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	30:04, 28240, s
04-Jun-1958	3-6	TS16	The Infirmary, Derby shad, marmorial, quagga, caique, swarth, eukase, timbal, gobemouche Threes: Three wise men, Three men in a boat, three graces, three in a wooden shoe Quotations: Before the gods that made the gods, just for a handful of silver, and the night shall be filled by music, there was a little girl Quickies: Paris/London, Montague/Capulet, Rhett/Charles /Frank, Jean Valjean Familiar phrases: Limey, southpaw, Uncle Sam, A-1 References: Adonis, the Lobster, Washington, Kingsley Initials: VAD, OR, NHS, SAA You Can't have your cake and eat it / Where Mystery begins justice ends	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	29:23, 27599, s groove noise
possibly 11-Jun-1958	3-7	TS21	arnot, bubblyjock, hoopoe, decorticate, dowser, grommet, skink, reardos Quotations: the boast of heraldry the pomp of power, now is the winter of our discontent, Oh God that bread should be so dear, In the spring a livlier iris People: Midsummer Night's Dream occupations Derivations: When in Rome do as the Romans do, where the shoe pinches, to fork out, to tread the primrose path Writer's character: John Halifax, Anna Karenina, Lord Fautleroy, Raffles Who/what/where: the cat, Violet, the village schoolmaster, the Devil Last words: Louis XVI, Pompador, Rabelais, Georges Sand Where Lived: Little Nell, the Brontes, the Tollivers, Rebecca Fifty Million Frenchmen can't be wrong / Twas for the good of my country I should be abroad	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	30:13, 28377, s
18-Jun-1958	3-8	TS23	Preliminary Training School, Addenbrooke Hospital, Cambridge buhl, burnous, oubliette, parky, saponify, ness, to slubber, soliped Quotations: take away that star and garter, season of mists, the moon on the one hand, this is my own my native land Villians: Svengali, Simon Legree, Alec D'Urbervillle, Captain Hook Derivations: midinette, a snake in the grass, to curry favour, strike while the iron is hot French phrases: en rapport, billet doux, nobless oblige, Sauve qui peut Characters: Hornblower, Forsyte, Whiteoaks, Wooster All Our Geese are Swans / Sweet is revenge, especially to women	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	30:10, 28333, s groove noise
possibly 25-Jun-1958	3-9	TS22	sophomore, pilliwinks, galingale, mammee, anopheles, ameliorate, goldilocks, shinty People: Madame Sans-Gêne, Rudolf Rassendale, Le Tartouche, Dearest Quotations: tis now the very witching time of night, her feet beneath her petticoat, I met a lady in the meads, Here's to the maid of bashful maid of 15 Quickies - Sea stories: Mody Dick, Lord Jim, Mister Midshipman Easy, Westward Ho! Derivations: another course would have done it, not by a long chalk, roue, sub rosa Old words: bosky, gorbellied, leman, codling Places: land where the Bong-tree grows, Flores in the Azores, Reading Gaol, to fight the French Writers' names: Smollett, Longfellow, Dostoevsky, Cervantes A Carpenter's known by his chips / Butchered to make a Roman Holiday	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	29:44, 27916, s
possibly 02-Jul-1958	3-10	TS24	lithology, solder, halidom, pulpiteer, saliating, satrap, ostreophagist, wampum Shakespeare's characters: Sir Andrew Aguecheek, Brutus, Autolochous, Bottom Quotations: In the sweet shire of Cardigan, woodman spare that tree, when lovely woman stoops to folly, the friendly cow all red and white, from the center all round to the sea, how some have been deposed, his withered cheek and tresses gray, forever he has got him a she Abbreviations: SHAPE, GP, cantua., KP Derivations: take the wind out of your sails, a sword of Damocles, a crucial test, to eat crow There's many a slip twixt cup and lip / Abstain from Beans	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	29:46, 27951, s
possibly 09-Jul-1958	3-11	TS25	bireme, quidnunc, ergot, nordenfeldt, porcine, hepatitis, tauromachy, nimbus What bridge: Horatius, Capt. Queeg, Lord Byron, Alec Guiness Quotations: Where ere you walk, the stately homes how beautiful they stand, there was a time when meadow grove and stream, but soft what light from yonder window breaks, I light my lamp in the evening, what that I cannot tell said he, and save his good broadsword, you've earned your little bit of corn Derivations: a nest egg, devil take the hindmost, the naked truth, straight from the horse's mouth Books of Historical Characters: Hereward the Wake, Guy Fawkes, Marlborough, Samuel Johnson These are the times that try men's souls / The Word impossible is not in my dictionary	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	29:50, 28019, s
16-Jul-1958	3-12			Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
23-Jul-1958	3-13			Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
25-Dec-1958	special	TS40	Christmas Edition poetaster, cacography, denigation, poussette, latchet, rufescent, postprandial, gallimaufry Food: turkey at Cratchets', great eater of beef, soup for evening, haggis Quotations: Christmas is coming the geese are getting fat, it is Christmas Day in the workhouse, England was merry England when he brought his sports again, come landload fill the flowing bowl Royalty: books of the four kings, the king's evil, king of the king, king's oak Derivations: to hold a candle to the devil, Christmas box, to live the life of Riley, to get out of bed the wrong way Dickens: Pickwick's friends, Ebenezer, Joe the fat boy, Jacob Marley His Bark is Worse than his Bite / Two Heads are Better Than One	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	29:56, 28108, s
06-May-1959	4-1			Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
13-May-1959	4-2			Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
20-May-1959	4-3			Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
27-May-1959	4-4			Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
03-Jun-1959	4-5	TS51	Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford Moraine, shebeen, dottle, panache Names and places: Apollyon, Pandemonium, Natty Bumpo, Fortinbras Quotations: Macbeth, Longfellow, Chesterton, Gray's Elegy Difference: indigent/indigenous, cineria/cinerium, curee/curet, eulogy/elegy Familar expressions: eavesdropper, like Caeser's wife, conscience money, post haste Styles: Dickens, Pepys, Samuel Smiles, Dodgson/Alice Through All Is Lost Except Honour / From the Sublime To The Ridiculous	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	28:43, 26932, s
10-Jun-1959	4-6	TS46	quern, Lettish, dacoit, beeswing, malfeasance, polemic, ombrometer, neophyte Mythology: Lethe, Leda, Prometheus, Pan Quotations: when the British warrior queen, beyond yon straggling fence, so Willie let you and me be wipers, one night as Dick lay half asleep Animal stories: Tarka the Otter, White Fang, Black Beauty, Travels with a Donkey Derivations: he's a Jonah, coup d'grace, curfew, Black Mariah Too many cooks spoil the broth / A Fair exchange is no robbery	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	28:53, 27119, s TS version LP25981
17-Jun-1959	4-7			Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
24-Jun-1959	4-8			Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
01-Jul-1959	4-9			Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
08-Jul-1959	4-10	TS52	St Andrews Hall, Cambridge Daphne, motet, hartal, socage Who/what/why: FOB, crossing the Rubicon, Scourge of God, bull/bear Complete the Quotation Food: crackers, hand, broiler, chow chow Familiar expressions: carpetbagger, for a song, caviar to the general, haven't a shot in my locker I Could Not Love Thee Dear So Much / Comparisons Are Odourous	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	29:05, 27279, s
15-Jul-1959	4-11	TS53	[Convocation Conversazione,] Senate House, University of London Kulak, synoptic, luxate, softa Who Said This? Diogenes, Euclid, Newton, Galileo Literature: Cardinal Wolsey, Keats, Yeats, Thomas Hood Historical Romances: Conan Doyle, Geoffrey Farnon, Raphael Sabbatini, Kathleen Windsor Expressions: woolgathering, steeplechase, possession is nine points of the law, top brass Time Is Money / Every Man over 40 Is a Scoundrel	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	28:48, 27002, s
22-Dec-1959	5-1	TS54	Christmas edition, [VHF Exhibition,] Corn Exchange, Brighton Logan, opsimath, conchology, quondam Brighton: Regency period, Brighton Rock, Beau Brummel, Pavilion and Mrs Fitzherbert Christmas verses: Clement Moore, Thomas Tusser, Thomas Bailey, Anon Expressions: swan song, honeymoon, harikiri, juggernaut Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bowwow / Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	28:09, 26401, s
29-Dec-1959	5-2			Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
05-Jan-1960	5-3			Robertson, Muir, Powell, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
12-Jan-1960	5-4			Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
19-Jan-1960	5-5			Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
26-Jan-1960	5-6			Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
02-Feb-1960?	5-7?	TS39	London House: emend, graminivirous, heliotherapy, galumph Birds: Barnaby Rudge's Grip, Capt Flint the parrot, the albatross, the raven Quotations: John Anderson my jo John, take oh take those lips away, oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness, there is a long long trail a winding Shakespeareana: Burbidge, second best bed, Hamnet, no actresses Derivations: posh, his teeth are drawn, living on tick, piping times of peace The Course of True love never did run smooth / My pride fell with my fortunes	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	29:39, 27837, s
09-Feb-1960	5-8			Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
16-Feb-1960	5-9			Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
23-Feb-1960	5-10			Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
08-Mar-1960	5-11	TS45	stratocracy, sylviculture, bechamel, shaveling Nicknames: Father of Anglers, Poor Richard, the Rail Splitter, the Empire Builder Quotations: For oft when on my couch I lie, John Stewart Mill by a mighty effort of will, Methought I heard a voice cry sleep no more, come lasses and lads get leave of your dads Derivations: to catch a Tartar, to take the bull by the horns, halcyon days, good wine needs no bush Who/what: the Dormouse, Hiawath's grandmother, Deadeye Dick, Fletcher Christian East Is East and West Is West / It's a Long Lane That Has No Turning	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	28:47, 27034, s TS version LP25981
15-Mar-1960	5-12			Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
22-Mar-1960	5-13		VHF exhibition, Middlesborough	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
23-Sep-1960	6-1			Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
30-Sep-1960	6-2			Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
07-Oct-1960	6-3			Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
14-Oct-1960	6-4			Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
21-Oct-1960	6-5			Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
28-Oct-1960	6-6			Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
04-Nov-1960	6-7			Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
11-Nov-1960	6-8			Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
18-Nov-1960	6-9			Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
25-Nov-1960	6-10			Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
02-Dec-1960	6-11			Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
09-Dec-1960	6-12			Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
16-Dec-1960	6-13			Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
04-Jun-1961	7-1			Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
11-Jun-1961	7-2			Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
18-Jun-1961	7-3			Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
25-Jun-1961	7-4			Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
02-Jul-1961	7-5			Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
09-Jul-1961	7-6			Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
16-Jul-1961	7-7			Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
23-Jul-1961	7-8			Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
30-Jul-1961	7-9			Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
17-Sep-1961	8-1			Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
24-Sep-1961	8-2			Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
01-Oct-1961	8-3			Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
08-Oct-1961	8-4			Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
15-Oct-1961	8-5			Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
22-Oct-1961	8-6			Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
29-Oct-1961	8-7			Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
05-Nov-1961	8-8		last episode with E. Arnot Robertson	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane

Transcription Service episodes Believed to be from Series 3-8 but not assignable to a particular date:

Broadcast Date	Series- Episode	TS number	Contents	Cast	Parameters
1958-1960		TS26	sib, inimical, shroff, notochord, sambur, prothalamium, fichu, doppelganger Mountains: Olympus, Ararat, Helicon, Mourn Quotations: how far that little candle shows his beams, beware the pine tree's withered branch, Where his rude hut by the Danube lay, Will you walk into my parlour Ship Commanders: Drake, Jason, Grenfell, Shackleton Derivations: by the skin of my teeth, to take a message to Garcia, if the mountain won't come to Mohammed..., it's all plain sailing Fictional Captain: Captain Cuttle, Captain Stanhope, Captain Carvallo, Captain Blood I have you on the hip / I won't quarrel with my bread and butter	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	29:23, 27586, s
1958-1960		TS27	amphora, filibeg, lapis lazuli, calisthenics, huckerback, camerlengo, screever, furcate Fit to Print: The Well of Lonliness, Ulysses, Don Juan, Lady Chatterly's Lover Quotations: Tennyson, Longfellow, Carroll, anon. Occupations: beadle, servant, tea merchant/grocer, barber Derivations: live like fighting cocks, gone to pot, to fly off the handle, out of sorts Lasts: Last of the Barons, Last Enemy, Last of the Romans, Last of the Mohicans Get Thee to a Nunnery / Better Late Than Never	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	29:26, 27646, s
1958-1960		TS28	lepidoptera, barology, interegnum, malison, smacksman, crannog, withershins, wayzgoose Who Killed Whom: Laertes, Hamlet, MacDuff, Sparrow Quotations: Grey, Carroll, Longfellow, Shakespeare Detective Stories: Maltese Falcon, Lady in the Lake, Trent's Last Case, The Red House Mystery Derivations: a fool's paradise, not worth a tinker's dam, to make bricks without straw, to be dead set on something Who/what: Emily Bronte/Wuthering Heights, March Hare/Mad Hatter, Sign of Four, Micawber/David Copperfield There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle / People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	28:39, 26907, s
1958-1960		TS29	dissimilitude, rigadoon, nescience, rinderpest, snew, foulard, gossoon, probity Books: Das Kapital, Erewhon, Terese Raquin, Four Horseman of the Apocalypse Quotations: Keats, Stevenson, Wordsworth, Burns Pseudonyms: James Bridie, George Eliot, Voltaire, George Sand Derivations: don't count your chickens before they are hatched, small beer, to be taken aback, dead as a doornail Literary geography: Land of the Rising Sun, Land of the Midnight Sun, Bride of the Sea, Eternal City Edie was a lady / Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party	Robertson, Muir, Powell, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	29:25, 27619, s
1958-1960		TS30	refulgent, nautch, pavonine, pyromania Habitats: tub, ferryboat, yongy-bongy bo, Clementine Shakespeare: monarchs, his father's occupation, chief patron, mother's name Derivations: to win hands down, roses roses all the way, to turn the tables, to slip someone a Mickey Finn Sequels: 20 Years After, Tom Brown at Oxford, Rupert of Hentzel, Good Wives Braden: Robert Service, Stephen Leacock, parrot, The Roving I, sourdough, Oliver Goldsmith I feel no pain dear Mother now / The Game is not worth a candle	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Guest: Bernard Braden Longland/Mason/Shryane	29:22, 27583, s
1958-1960		TS31	forfend, khamsin, peen, kharkhan, icthyophagist, nympholept, skua, grobian Women: Shakespeare/Hamlet, Goldsmith, Wilde, Barrie Quotations: I waited for the train at Coventry, Glory be to God for dappled things, You know we French stormed Ratisbon, There is a garden in her face Who/what/where: loud bassoon, oh for a draught, ogle London, eel on the end of his nose Mythology: hunting, corn, poetry and music, hell Characters: Mrs Malaprop, Fitzwilliam Darcy, Dick Barton, Solomon Eagle One Good Turn deserves another / A miss is as good as a mile	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	29:40, 27859, s
1958-1960		TS32	brackish, charlock, bicephalous, hidalgo, intaglio, epigraph, diaphoretic, lenity Harps: on a weeping willow tree, Tara's halls, blow the spirit sterling harp, a wild harp Quotations: Toll for the brave, O fat white woman, There go my heart's abhorrence, There is a willow that grows aslant a brook Relationships in Shakespeare: Jessica, Sebastian, Malcolm and Donaldbane, Emilia Derivations: to refuse to kowtow, hamburger, according to Hoyle, Homer or sometimes not John: Writer of Innocence, calypso singers, bossyback, Moon on a Rainbow Shore Sailors: Johnson in Boswell, Macaulay, Thackeray, Shylock Famous last words: I shall hear in heaven, What? Do they run already, then I die happy, wait till I finish my problem, I don't what I may seem to the world	Robertson, Hale, Spain, Norden Guest: Errol John Longland/Mason/Shryane	29:34, 27761, s
1958-1960		TS33	somniloquy, edentate, auriform, poncho, belvidere, woodchuck, porbeagle, sniggle Headgear: Green Hat, Tam O'Shanter, Hatter's Castle, Trilby Quotations: To see a world in a grain of sand, In such a night stood Dido, The isles of Greece, The animals went in two by two Bestsellers: Gigi, The Horse's Mouth, Gone with the Wind, Bible Derivations: to sigh for the fleshpots, a one horse town, in the limelight, let George do it Art is not a handicraft / Dressed in a little brief authority	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	29:51, 28021, s
1958-1960		TS34	gunny, cockileekie, plantar, fleer, homunculus, chibouk, ergotocracy, flanker Giants: Despair, John Ridd, Gargantua, Gulliver Quotations: There are certain things as a spider, Let me not to the marriage of true minds, For I dipped into the future, Oh my poor Nellie Gray Style: Churchill, Surtees, Shaw, Coward Derivations: wash your hands of the matter, he's on his hobby horse, the writing is on the wall, to play old harry Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all / Marriage is a lottery	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	29:44, 27925, m
1958-1960		TS35	suspire, parcenary, supernal, bashi-bazouk, bridoon, barmecide, brunch, barbate Codes: Mulberry, Fido, Overlord, Pluto Quotations: What is truth, Twas on a lofty vase's side, sunset of the evening star, If I ever become a rich man Lunar: The Moonstone, Moon and Sixpence, First Men in the Moon, Waters of the Moon Derivations: to lay by the heels, hard lines, hard up, not at home Thank you madam, the agony is abated / Eric that's the first time I ever heard you swear	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	29:36, 27789, s
1958-1960		TS36	egregious, amatol, clinometer, epiphyte, Lollard, pubsy, isabel, polygastric, heterodoxy, pied, galloon, bulocity Doctors: Doctor Fu Manchu, Doctor Thorndyke, Doctor Faustus, Doctor's Dilemma Quotations: Matilda told such dreadful lies, I am a kind of farthing gib, True ease in writing, Tis the last rose of summer Shakespeare: Falstaff's followers, Merry Wives of Windsor, Two Gentlemen of Verona, twin brothers in Comedy of Errors Derivations: to broach the matter, off the cuff, to run the gauntlet, sour grapes Names together: Hero/Leander, Dante/Beatrice, Frankie/Johnny, Daphnis/Chloe Ask the question master - Irks care the cropfall bird frets doubt the more crammed beast, The only way to combat an injustice , ...	Robertson, Hale, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	29:32, 27728, s
1958-1960		TS37	quean, saltigrade, potable, backstays, natatorial, cumshaw, impassible, ameliorate Women's names: Rebecca, Marjorie Morningstar, Love for Lydia, Anne Veronica Quotations: And everybody praised the duke, O give me a home where the buffalo roam, Augustus was a chubby lad, A street there is in Paris Derivations: heap Pelion on Ossa, he's got the pip, to read the riot act, he's had his chips Style: Daisy Ashford, Wilde, Mark Twain, Carroll Thomas: Adam Lindsay Gordon, Neville Shute and Lawrence, Darcy Nyland, Peter Finch, Summer of the Seventeenth Dog Ask the guest - Why do you call Australia Australia, Wilmot, NSW and NT, Captain Cook	Robertson, Hale, Spain, Norden Guest: Wilfred Thomas Longland/Mason/Shryane	29:32, 27725, s
1958-1960		TS38	narcosis, decibel, encomium, koumiss, proptosis, grume, bonanza, pediculous Villiains: Carl Peterson, Coumt Dracula, The bald archeologist, Rosa Klem Quotations: my lord Tomnoddy is 34, we don't want to fight, Oh say can you see by the dawn's early light, And this is law I will maintain Domestic servants: Cleopatra's maids, Rebecca's housekeeper, Death the butler, Don Quixote's servant Derivations: not worth a continental, cock a hoop, eager beaver, red letter day I smell a device / You must take the will for the deed	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	29:38, 27826, s
1958-1960	possibly 5-7?	TS39	London House	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	see series
25-Dec-1958	special	TS40		Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	see series
1958-1960		TS41	chapman, exophagy, caterplasm, thole Deaths: Henry I, Francis Bacon, St. Lawrence, Aeschylus Quotations: Oh I have passed a miserable night, Oh teach the orphan boy to read, Oh wild west wind, In a village in the country Famous Last Words: Julius Caesar, Oliver Cromwell, Cardinal Wolsey, Beethoven Derivations: to badger someone, a flash in the pan, slapstick, Adam's apple Carve a little bit off the top for me / Life is Short and Art is Long	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	29:21, 27557, s
1958-1960		TS43	bugaboo, oubit, mnemonics, pipkin Quotations: How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot, the voice I hear this passing night, and unto the bow the cord is, Greensleeves was all my joy Names Together: Mutt/Jeff, Cupid/Psyche, Cerab/Rustum, Pygmalion/Galatea Derivations: a little bird told me, to get the wind up, he's on his beam end, a broken reed Styles: Macaulay, Wilde, Barrie, Marx Up Guards and At 'em / Give Me Back My Legions	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	29:01, 27246, s
1958-1960		TS43	springe, biltong, hispid, lordosis Love: Love for Love, Love in a Cold Climate, The Wilder Shores of Love, Love from a Stranger Quotations: Had I plenty of money, Come cuddle your head on my shoulder, I hate that Andrew Jones, Twas on a Monday morning Shakespeare: pound of flesh = 3000 ducats, pickled herrings, Pyramus/Thisbe, ravishers in the pie Derivations: it goes against the grain, hear hear, there's method in his madness, a free lance Out Vile Jelly / The Play's The Thing	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	29:01, 27241, s
1958-1960		TS44	medicaster, phossy-jaw, nard, samovar, hunkers, incubus, pleonasm, corf Who: Nimrod, the Little Endians, Little Englander, Stephen Daedalus Quotations: when the present has latched its postern, yet each man kills the things he loves, give me my scallop shell of quiet, and slowly answered Arthur from the barge Derivations: to blow hot and cold, I have a bone to pick with you, pussy foot, the ghost walks Westminster Abbey or Victory / Envy Has No Holidays	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	28:48, 27049, s
08-Mar-1960	5-11	TS45		Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	see series
10-Jun-1959	4-6	TS46		Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	see series
1958-1960		TS47	exculpate, eftsoons, fearnought, peachick, carapace, dragonnade, nepotism, moider Shakepeare ranks: Prince of Tyre, General, Duke, King Quotations, Victorian: and though the fields look rough, and out again I curve and flow, I lent upon a coppice gate, oh wherefore come you forth in triumph Legend and Mythology: Morpheus, Vulcan, St Crispin, Minerva Derivations: to play box and cox, bellwether of the flock, king log, to run amok Oh Mr Porter What Shall I do / Brevity is the soul of wit	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	28:46, 27012, s
1958-1960		TS48	sackbutt, nutant, prescience, sarcophagus, peccable, farouche, cuspidor, ouch Quotations: build me straight o worthy master, some ha' meat and canna eat, and when above the surges, golden slumbers kiss your eyes Characters: Baron Munchausen, Brigadier Gerard, Topsy and Eva, Stalky and Co. Derivations: gad about, guinea, son of a gun, to bell a cat Shakespeare: Hermia/Helena, Gertrude, Trinckulo, Hubert Wait and See / Workers of the World Unite	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	28:56, 27167, s
1958-1960		TS49	coruscate, cerements, calliope, oakum Quotations: behold the child by Nature's kindly law, oh my offence is rank, it happened that a few weeks later, the moving finger writes Who/what/why: Arms and the Man, PeepBo, Schubert, stagecoach Derivations: a devil's advocate, in a nutshell, to go bankrupt, to bring home the bacon Characters: Mrs Gamp, Bindle, Dandie Dinmont, Puff Pity's A Kin to Love / J'accuse	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	28:48, 27041, s
1958-1960		TS50	finical, hokum, mawseed, graffito Titles of books: The 39 Steps, The Darling Buds of May, Peyton Place, Old Man and the Sea Quotations: comrades leave me here a little, as unto the bow the cord is, it is the cause my soul, in the fell clutch of circumstance Derivations: to give a clean bill of health, the apple of someone's eye, to book one's seat, as big as bull beef Characters: Lothario, Lucy Lockett, Boniface, Mr Dick Kind Hearts Are More Than Coronets / Come Up And See Me Sometime	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	29:12, 27415, s
1960-1961?	?	TS67	musette, fortalice, yegg, palaeology Definitions: trepan, sestina/sextain, existentialism, uxorious Quotations: Charge of the Light Brigade, Leisure, Hamlet, To Virgins Expressions: star in the ascendant, turncoat, Parthian shot, hat trick Let joy be unconfined / On our way awake beloved	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	27:39, 25934, s
1960-1961?	?	TS68	lammergeier, euphoria, hypermetropia, camion Definitions: epicenter, pudding, fugue, sepia Quotations: Omar Khayyam, Hamlet, Fame and Friendship, Bret Harte Expressions: spencer, derby, victoria, albert Misquotations: pride goeth before a fall, tis a poor thing but mine own, gild the lily, money is the root of all evil The superfluous is very necessary / And constancy lives in realms above	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	27:11, 25492, s
1960-1961?	?	TS69	ekka, nosing, ineluctable, ylang-ylang Definitions: neolithic, smile, enfant terrible, shimmy Mythology: Calypso, Pluto, Orpheus, Laocoon Expressions: bayonet, pantechnion, cabal, censor Abbreviations: RCMP, DDT, BDST, Chas. Stolen looks are nice in chapels / She was poor but she was honest	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	27:09, 25459, s
1960-1961?	?	TS70	quirt, pleach, merle, chota hazri Definitions: arabesque, haggis, raglan, agent provacateur Quotations: John Drinkwater, Browning, Macbeth, John Gay Expressions: alfresco, carte blanche, entente cordiale, pied a terre American books: Cannery Row, From the Terrace, God's Little Acre, King's Row Marry in haste and repent at leisure / A bit in the morning is better than nothing all day	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	27:38, 25919, s
1960-1961?	?	TS71	ligar, myology, variola, glockenspiel, notochord, kedgeree, amen, welkin Quotations: Walter Scott, A A Milne, Twelfth Night, Anon. Expressions: benefit of clergy, Attic salt, cheese paring, amazon Modern books: Peyton Place, Casino Royale, From Here to Eternity, Saturday Night Sunday Morning Aspiring to be angels men rebel / There ain't a goin' to be no core	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	27:09, 25458, s
1960-1961?	?	TS72	resipiscence, incondite, couscous, cocker bondy Two meanings: eke, doxy, flemish, scupper Names in the language: Lady Bountiful, Quintus Fabius, Captain Charles Boycott, Friedrich Mesmer Quotations: Ralph Hodgson, Wordsworth, Oscar Wilde, Shakespeare French terms: faux pas, bon bouche, parvenu, denouement For this relief much thanks / Sic transit gloria mundi	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	27:39, 25927, s
1960-1961?	?	TS73	vinaigrette, wildebeast, thurible, gneiss Quotations: Waterbabies, Thomas Brown, Gilbert, Bluebells of Scotland Heroes: Westward Ho!, Jungle Book, Handley Cross, Treasure Island Comments/sayings: Whistler, Dr Johnson, Nelson, Bonaparte French expressions: marron glace, sans souci, franc-tireur, en bon point (embonpoint) No sire it is a revolution / The female of the species is more deadly than the male	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	27:24, 25690, s
1960-1961?	?	TS74	borscht, kelt, apodictic, excoriate Definitions: garibaldi, subcutaneous/hypodermic, misogamy, maverick Quotations: Byron, Pope, Macaulay, Anon. Style: Runyon, Rabelais, Mrs Beaton, Shaw Characters: David Copperfield, Merry Wives of Windsor, Peter Jackson, Fu Man Chu A rose by any other name would smell as sweet / The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	27:43, 25987, s
1960-1961?	?	TS75	curare, spiracle, parturition, ophidians Latin tag: de mortuis, dulce et decorum est, in vino veritas, per ardua ad astra Leading characters: Heathcliff, Jim Dixon, Edward Malone, Salar Quotations: Beloc, Shelley, Shakespeare, Shakespeare Dickens: Tracy Tupman, Wackford Squares, Ebenezer Scrooge, Wilkins Macawber The lamps are going out all over Europe / There is moderation even in excess	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	27:24, 25695, s
1960-1961?	?	TS76	coble, echoism, coir, felicide Commodities: vinegar and brown paper, sugar his hair, locusts and wild honey, good dry oats and bottle of hay Quotations: Longfellow, Harry Lauder, Baring-Gould, Fielding Style: Wodehouse, Dr Johnson, Shaw, Churchill Initials: CPRE, E&OE, NSW, FM Man wants but little here below / Absence makes the heart grow fonder	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	27:30, 25784, s
1960-1961?	?	TS78	litotes, papaverous, ecclesiology, whit Characters: Peer Gynt, Lord Jim, Pendenis, Jonathan Wilde Quotations: Housman, Goldsmith, Grey, Fred W Lee Names: joey, kominform, bren, pajamas Horses: Marengo, Bucephalus, Pegasus, Copenhagen Beggars can't be choosers / One, two and the third in your bosom	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	27:34, 25852, s
1960-1961?	?	TS79	abnegation, withy, trachea, vade mecum Dogs: Pope, Madame Roland, Mark Twain, Ogden Nash Quotations: Bunyan, Byron, Wordsworth, Burns Names: leopard, sten gun, tommy gun, swashbuckler Appetite comes with eating / Oh, Oh, Antonio	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	26:58, 25293, s
1960-1961?	?	TS82	Guys Hospital, London, a Christmas episode wassail, cushat, yule, rupiginous Abbreviations: RC, OP, PP, AC Quotations: Othello, Macbeth, New Testament, Thomas Hood Why and What: piano, dyspepsia, punch, booze Doctors: Benjamin Franklin, Napoleon, Romeo and Juliet, du Maurier One good turn deserves another / The better part of valour is discretion	Robertson, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	27:38, 25920, s

Series 9-11 (1962-1964) The Powell-Spain Era

Broadcast Date	Series- Episode	TS number	Contents	Cast	Parameters
25-Dec-1961	special	TS96	Christmas Special hyperphysical, luge, saturnalia, pipper Party games: cranbow, loo, snapdragon, up Jenkins Quotations: At Christmas I no more desire a rose, How blest how envied our life, Ring out wild bells, On the third day of Christmas Christmas associations: pantomime, mistletoe, turkey, Christmas Tree Wines: Chambertin, Liebfraumilch, Chateauneuf du Pape, Tokay A new broom sweeps clean / He who laughs last laughs the longest	Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	30:03, 28107, s LP 27284
01-Jul-1962	9-1	TS84	henna, chiliad, huckle, penstock Rhyming slang: sky, whistle, apples, Rosie Quotations: Grey, Shakespeare, Keats, Coleridge Origins and derivations: take my davy, dibs, darbies, Basic English Seated one day at the organ / The old folks at home	Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	27:44, 26005, s TS extract LP27503 1st story 5:21, 5006, s
08-Jul-1962	9-2	TS83	agoraphobia, lovage, logomachy, niton, nanesoup, pentastich, beadledom, friseur Quotations: I had a little pony, The north wind doth blow, Solomon Grundy, As I was going b to St. Ives Expressions: Bismarck, Death, Richelieu, Guillotine executioner Origins and derivations: brains trust, bourgoisie, digs, breakers ahead With all her faults, I love her still / He flies through the air with the greatest of ease	Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	27:34, 25851, s TS extract LP27503 1st story 6:02, 5648, s
15-Jul-1962	9-3		these four are probably TS85-88 but the order is unknown	Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
22-Jul-1962	9-4		these four are probably TS85-88 but the order is unknown	Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
29-Jul-1962	9-5		these four are probably TS85-88 but the order is unknown	Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
05-Aug-1962	9-6		these four are probably TS85-88 but the order is unknown	Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
12-Aug-1962	9-7	TS89	irenic, bandicoot, neuroma, naze Mythology: Hippolyta, Mercury, Hygeia, Hydra Nursery Rhymes: Dr Foster went to Gloucester, Tom Tom the piper's son, Little Nancy Etticoat, See Saw Marjorie Daw Origins and derivations: achilles tendon, horsepower, gamut, mews Maybe it's Because I'm a Londoner / Oh Death Where is Thy Sting	Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	27:41, 25960, s TS extract LP27503 both stories 10:23, 9710, s
19-Aug-1962	9-8		probably TS90	Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
26-Aug-1962	9-9	TS91	gibus, allotheism, pachyderm, bitterling Who and what: Nautilus, four fairies in Midsummer Night's Dream, Tempest/Henry VIII, Peter Rabbit's sisters Origins and derivations: jeroboam, cab, cue, atlas Styles: Dickens, Saki, Austen, Wilde When You Come To The End of a Perfect Day / The Age of Chivalry is Gone	Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	27:37, 25903, s TS extract LP27503 2nd story 5:54, 5515, s
09-Sep-1962	9-10	TS92	'100th Edition' tarantism, electrolier, scarab, flâner Mythology: Calliope, Actaeon, Valkyries, Bacchante Origins and derivations: scapegoat, to go haywire, scot free, costermonger She Stoops to Conquer / A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever	Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	27:41, 25968. s TS extract LP27503 both stories 11:51, 11084, s
16-Sep-1962	9-11	TS93	victorine, interlard, quant, tautology Of whom by whom? Napoleon/Thackeray, Johnson/Shaw, Keats/Yeats, Byron/Macaulay Verse: Keats, Anon., Wordsworth, Foster Origins and derivations: ride roughshod, steal a march, deadline, logrolling Britain's never never never will be slaves / Is your journey really necessary?	Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	27:41, 25968. s
23-Sep-1962	9-12	TS94	gustation, fatidical, doolie, perse Of whom by whom? Whistler/Wilde, Sheridan/Johnson, Walpole/Macaulay, Gladstone/Victoria Origins and derivations: act of grace, days of grace, paraphenalia, robot Who/Why/What: Harpy, claque, Eugen Marchbanks/Parson Morelle, Bluebeard There Are Fairies at the Bottom of Our Garden / If you Have Tears Prepare to Shed Them Now	Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	27:48, 26068, s TS extract LP27503 2nd story 4:57, 46244, s
30-Sep-1962	9-13	TS95	spurrier, trauma, diablerie, rotunda Of what by whom? bed/Maupassant, tobacco/ Kingsley, kiss/Rostand, critics/Johnson Origins and derivations: down to bedrock, rift in the lute, put a spoke in someone's wheel, horn of plenty Who/what/why: sinews of war, Torquemada, Dandy Dinmot, Jospeh Pulitzer Always take Mother's advice / It's naughty but it's nice	Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	27:43, 25993, s
25-Dec-1962	special	TS110 prob		Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
02-Apr-1963	10-1	TS97?		Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
09-Apr-1963	10-2			Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
16-Apr-1963	10-3			Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
23-Apr-1963	10-4			Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
30-Apr-1963	10-5			Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
07-May-1963	10-6			Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
14-May-1963	10-7			Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
21-May-1963	10-8			Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
28-May-1963	10-9			Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
04-Jun-1963	10-10			Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
11-Jun-1963	10-11			Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
18-Jun-1963	10-12			Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
25-Jun-1963	10-13			Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
26-Nov-1963	11-1			Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
03-Dec-1963	11-2			Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
10-Dec-1963	11-3			Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
17-Dec-1963	11-4			Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
24-Dec-1963	11-5	TS 125 prob	Xmas edition. From St.Peter's Hospital valis	Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
31-Dec-1963	11-6			Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
07-Jan-1964	11-7			Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
14-Jan-1964	11-8			Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
21-Jan-1964	11-9			Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
28-Jan-1964	11-10			Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
04-Feb-1964	11-11			Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
11-Feb-1964	11-12			Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
18-Feb-1964	11-13			Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane
25-Feb-1964	11-14	TS123?		Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane

Nancy Spain was killed in a light aircraft accident on 21-Mar-1964 after the broadcast of the last episode of series 11. Two episodes had already been recorded for series 12 and these were broadcast posthumously as 12-1 and 12-2 (see following era).

Transcription Service episodes Believed to be from Series 9-11 but not assignable to a particular date:

Broadcast Date	Series- Episode	TS number	Contents	Cast	Parameters
1962?	9-?	TS77	hydropathy, pinguid, phaeton, porkling Ships: Ancient Mariner, O Captain My Captain, Helen of Troy, Hunting of the Snark Named after people: petersham, brougham, bowie, lord Quotations: Longfellow, Pope, Shakespeare, Harry Lauder French expressions: aplomb, amant honorable, haute ecole, lingerie That blessed word Mesopotamia / A thing of beauty is a joy forever	Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	27:40, 25951, s
probably Jul-1962	9-?	TS85	Ostreophagist, thews, invigilate, scaphoid Initials: D.V., FSR, ibid., SAA Quotations: Tempest, Hamlet, Scott, Byron Origins and derivations: Aunt Sally, lick into shape, pagan, wild goose chase Slang: minces, bird, chevvy, salmon Honi soit qui mal y pense / Against the undivulged pretense I fight	Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	27:28, 25760, s
probably Jul-1962	9-?	TS86	Rivière, hydroponics, Orcadian, nectary Defintions: insectarium, nectarine, gnome, daunt Quotations: Longfellow, Wordsworth, Burns, nursery rhyme Origins and derivations: vaudeville, claptrap, concert pitch, bread and circuses There never was a good war or a bad peace / Ring down the curtain the farce is over	Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	27:48, 26067, s
probably Aug-1962	9-?	TS87	planchette, frondescence, brio, caoutchaouc Quotations: Goldsmith, Keats, Tennyson, Hood Characters: Monsieur Bocquere, Blind Pew, Modestine, Edward Murdstone Origins and derivations: Little England, doily, IQ, comb out Oh for the touch of a vanished hand / One flower makes no garland	Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	27:25, 25711, s
probably Aug-1962	9-?	TS88	Walloon, lockage, kraken, urticate, trichosis, otology, miff, vedette What's the Difference: ordnance/ordinance, pathos/bathos, antimony/antinomy, llama/lama Quotations: Byron, Kingsley, Shakespeare, Macaulay Characters: John Ridd, Mellors, Jean Valjean, Captain Ahab Put not your trust in princes / Here lies one whose name was writ in water	Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	27:31, 25801, s
probably 19-Aug-1962	9-8?	TS90	mattoid, oleander, bogle, babouche Who and what: Keats, Tennyson on Wellington, Abraham Lincoln, Wordsworth Origins and derivations: alpha to omega, to hold aloof, printer's devil, knock knock who's there The shape of things to come / Anything awful makes me laugh	Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	27:47, 26058, S
25-Dec-1961	special	TS96	Christmas Special: hyperphysical, etc.	Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	see series
possibly 02-Apr-1963	10-1?	TS97	malemute, sinology, ovine, panification Identifications: Lake Poets, William Hickey, Parson Lot, Dora Spendlow and Agnes Wickfield Origins and Derivations: enthusiasm, tweed, padre, slogan Marriage advice: Shakespeare, Punch, Fuller, Benjamin Franklin There is no trusting to appearances / Neither a borrower nor a lender be	Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	27:47, 26059, s
09-Apr-1963?	10-x?	TS98	fossick, dromond, liana, randem Who/Why/What? Fanny Braun, Annie Laurie, Jocasta, weepers Origins and derivations: wet blanket, khaki, wideawake, cinch Fashion: Wilde, Pepys, Mohammed, Franklin A country fit for heroes to live in / Look not upon the wine when it is red	Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	27:43, 25993, s
16-Apr-1963?	10-x?	TS99	exuviate, fa, jemimas, dhoti Who/Why/What? Hayde, Flying Dutchman, stylite, Sabine women Poetry: Henley, Keats, Shakespeare, Tennyson Origins and derivations: coast is clear, paradise, maquis. to eat salt Dead men tell no tales / Appetite comes with eating	Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	27:49, 26079, s
25-Apr-1963?	10-x?	TS100	picaresque, smallage, tulipomania, theorbo Who/What/Why? Dives, Dulcinea, helots, from Dan to Beersheba Origins and derivations: kick over the traces, wolf in sheep's clothing, above board, penthouse Those who are about to die salute you / The proof of the pudding is in the eating	Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	27:55, 26183, s trailer by Edward J. Mason 1:00, 943m, s
1963?	10-x?	TS101	Vocabularies: marginalia, roburite, Erse, paravane Verse: Gray’s “…Distant view of Eton College”, Gilbert Bab Ballads, Milton “Lysidas”, Shakespeare “Richard II” Origins and derivations: put the kibosh on, lay by the heels, Baedecker rains, cast sheep’s eyes Two blacks do not make a white / My bonny lies over the ocean	Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	27:47, 26055, s
1963?	10-x?	TS102	Vocabularies: Janeite, about-sledge, dan, Wertherism Books and characters: Smee, Mr. Goldfinger, Mr. Slope, Abel Mankwitch Poetry and verse: Marlowe “The passionate shepherd and his love”, Carroll “Bruno and Sylvie”, Rossetti “The blessed damoiselle”, Shakespeare “Henry VIII” French and Latin sayings: cherche la femme, sic transit Gloria muni, mens sana in corpose sano, dulcie et decorum est The die is cast / Keep right on to the end of the road	Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	27:24, 25693, s
1963?	10-x?	TS103	Vocabularies: romaunt, furbish, animacule, tort Descriptions: gorgons, Don Juan, Peter Pan, Shakespeare French and Latin tags: QED, if youth only knew…, O tempore o mores, morituri te salutem Origins and Derivations: haversack, a decent chap, delirium, checkmate Sweet are the uses of adversity / The better part of valour is discretion	Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	27:45, 26023, s
1963?	10-x?	TS104	Vocabularies: emeritus, perigee, salacious, telearchics Who or What Was: Alatlanta, Atlantis, Bucephalus, Calypso Origins and Derivations: to lay it on with a trowel, to sail the high seas, to feel hipped, to browbeat Shakespeare: What You Will, Shakespeare’s children, plays with more than one part, a wound Here’s to the girl with the pair of blue eyes / I wonder who’s kissing her now	Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	27:42, 25979, s
1963?	10-x?	TS105	Vocabularies: desiderata, ruth, siffleur, rumtum Origins and Derivations: hooligan, moonraker, namby-pamby, knickerbockers Authors: George Eliot, Jack London, Harrison Amesworth, Thomas Hardy Who/Why/Where: The bell in Edmonton, ate mince and quince with a runcible spoon, Walrus doubts the strand can be swept, Winnie the Pooh Oh what a beautiful morning / Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean	Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	27:17, 12793, m ABC RN
1963?	10-x?	TS106	Vocabularies: gingival, floccinaucinihilipilification, meed, hymnody Shakeperean first lines: Antony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, Henry V, Merry Wives of Windsor Verse and Poetry: Ode to a Nightingale by Keats, Time I’ve Lost in Wooing by Thomas More, Hamlet, Goldsmith about Garrick Origins and Derivations: slough of despond, belfry, barracking, catchpole Slow and steady wins the race / Don’t put all your eggs in one basket	Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	27:37, 12951, m ABC RN
1963?	10-x?	TS107	Vocabularies: rahat lakum, jobation, Fleming, hoky poky Court questions: court cupboard, court plaster, court of pied power, court of love Origins and Derivations: out Herod Herod, Clerk known as Nobby, italics, to peach on someone Who/Why/What/Where: rook as parson, Great Plague, Tennyson’s “The Revenge”, Herrick’s “Julia” I will return / Should auld acquaintance be forgot	Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	27:46, 26032, s
1963?	10-x?	TS108	Vocabularies: hagiolatry, sabreur, indigene, gnosis Verse and Poetry: Tennyson’s The Brook, Kingsley’s The Sands of Dee, Poe’s Annabelle Lee, Omar Khayaim Origins and Derivations: for a song, backroom boys, to be made a cat’s paw, baggage Call words: call a man out, call bird, call of the House, call day All quiet on the western front / A llittle more than kin and less than kind	Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	27:20, 25638, s
1963?	10-x?	TS109	napoleon, solvo, palfrey, tubule Quotations: Tennyson, Macaulay, Browning, Scott Origins and derivations: ventriloquist, leave in the lurch, farce, by and large Who/Why/What: the Jumblies, Lear/himself, people of the Midlands/Belloc, Peter Pan/fairies Some Enchanted Evening / Marriage Is Nothing But a Civil Contract	Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	27:34, 25846, s
possibly 1962	special	TS110	Christmas Special fairling, grog blossom, polyphagia, noel Christmas: Kris Kringle, Mr Pickwick, three French hens, good cheer Nicknames: Artful Dodger, Brandy Nan, Old Blood and Guts, Old Nick Seasonal plays: Charlie's Aunt, Noddy in Toyland, Toad of Toad Hall, Wizard of Oz How Doth The Little Busy Bee Improve Each Shining Hour / The Heart Out Of the Bosom Was Never Given in Vain	Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	27:34, 25850, s
1963-1964?	11-x?	TS111	Haematic, parboil, spilth, raffish Mythology: Vulcan, Dryads, Pluto and Persephone, Asclepius Origins and Derivations: gargoyle, green-eyed monster, on the qui vive, to dun someone Who/What/Why: sonnet, ampersand, Mr President/Excellency/Eminence, Midas and asses ears She's my Sweetheart, I'm Her Beau / She Was only a Bird in a Gilded Cage	Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	27:49, 26089, s
1963-1964?	11-x?	TS112	Blain, holocaust, caulk, bibliomania Who/Why/What: Tanglewood Tales, wild animals, Tigger and Roo, dutch concert Verse/Poetry: Omar Khaiyam, Wordsworth, Shakespeare, Jonson Expressions: cheapjack, jackpot, jackrabbit, smokejack Now Is The Winter of Our Discontent / Be It Ever So Humble There's no Place Like Home	Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	27:49, 26084, s
1963-1964?	11-x?	TS113	Vocabularies: galantine, lamasery, miscibility, cucking stool Nurseryland: Baa baa black sheep, Winken Blinken and Nod, straw sticks and bricks, Jack and the beanstalk Origins and Derivations: to rat, dago, Catherine wheel, hussy French or Latin expressions: in vino veritas, sans culotte, soi disant, pis allet Revenge is a kind of wild justice / I’m getting married in the morning	Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	27:45, 26028, s
1963-1964?	11-x?	TS114	Vocabularies: gharry, cryptaesthesia, shako, cuisse Greek Mythology: Baucis and Philemon, Daedalus and Icarus, Orpheus and Eurydice, Jason and Medea Origins and Derivations: a toast, pass the buck, skylarking, slewed Literature and Drama: Anthony Trollope, Moliere, Dickens, George Eliot I am a citizen of the world / I don’t want to play in your yard	Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	27:39, 25935, s
1963-1964?	11-x?	TS115	Vocabularies: hydromel, ultimogeniture, nidification, opsimath Gulliver’s Travels: Glumdalclitch, big Endians and little Endians, Huhnhnyms and yahoos, strulbrugs Verse and Poetry: Rupert Brook Granchester, Kathleen O’Vorneen, Health unto his Majesty, Greensleeves Who/What/When/Where: Mr. Rochester, de Winter, Study in Scarlet, David Copperfield In the great right of an excessive wrong / I’m going to wash that man right out of my hair	Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	27:37, 25899, s
1963-1964?	11-x?	TS116	Vocabularies: jacobus, herbarium, mavorneen, barbican Literary references: Cooper on England, Shaw on marriage, Wordsworth on Westminster Bridge, Thackeray on Napoleon Origins and Derivations: with a jaundiced eye, lantern jawed, to peg out, a dead heat Ex words: ex gratia, ex officio, ex libris, ex partie The bigger they come, the harder they fall / I have nothing to declare except my genius	Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	27:46, 26035, s
1963-1964?	11-x?	TS117	Vocabularies: hebetude, scut, mezzanine, herby Reason Why: feud in Lorna Doone, tortoise win the race, why did Rip van Winkle leave home, Caesar mistrust Cassius Verse and Poetry: William Allingham Faeries, Dobson Rose Leaves, Herrick To Anthea, Browning Home Thoughts from Abroad Origins and Derivations: penicillin, gout, to go through the mill, a man with no scruples And so to bed / There is a happy land far far away	Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	27:34, 25854, s
1963-1964?	11-x?	TS118	Vocabularies: dressage, barcarole, proponent, windage Reason Why: Don Quixote tilts at windmills, Tom Jones is adopted and then dismissed, Jane Eyre finally marries Mr. Rochester, Queen Guinevere hie to a nunnery Origins and Derivations: mealy mouthed, etiquette, mad as a hatter, to pay your footing Definitions: marriage, music, applied science, women Take a pair of sparkling eyes / It was roses, roses all the way	Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	27:34, 25855, s
1963-1964?	11-x?	TS119	Vocabularies: burke, detinue, hecatomb, xylophagous Who/what/why: Bunyan in jail, Rodolf Rusker, a slave, Casabianca Quotations: AE Housman, Hamlet, Burns/Scott, Tennyson Why and wherefore: Trilby's voice, why didn't take his family with him, 007, Dickens support of the poor In the shade of the old apple tree / If you go down in the woods today you're sure to be in for a big suprise	Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	27:45, 26028, s
1963-1964?	11-x?	TS120	Vocabularies: wiseacre, scroop, hartshorn, cross-buttock Writers' first works: Hemingway, Thurber, HG Wells, Fitzgerald Origins and derivations: in the doldrums, try it on the dog, bistro, coward Who and what: Southey, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Tennyson, Belloc Thrillers: Maltese Falcon, Lady in the Lake, Study in Scarlet, Postman Always Rings Twice Save me Oh save me from the candied friend / All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy	Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	27:40, 25943, s
1963-1964?	11-x?	TS121	glossographer, twight, weasand, tympanitis Origins and derivations: hoist the blue peter, catastrophe, you can whistle for it, preliminary canter Who/why/what: Keats La Belle dame sans merci, Dowson, sob sister, lawyers Heroes: David Balfour, Philip Carey, And Quiet Flows the Don, Waverly novels Is it a world to hide virtues in? / You're the flower of my heart, sweet Adeline	Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	27:45, 26026, s
1963-1964?	11-x?	TS122	coven, wanderoo, piker, aloetic Verse: Tennyson, Coleridge, Marvell, Shakespeare Origins and derivations: sail under false colors, grand guignol, lampoon, wash out Foreign phrases: à outrance, ballon d'essai, coup de main, femme de chambre' Are you sick or are you sullen / It takes a great deal of history to a produce a little literature	Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	27:44, 26003, s
1963-1964? possibly 01-May-1964 and therefore Nancy Spain's last episode	11-x? poss. 12-02	TS123	Beverage Hall/Beveridge?, London University polyhistor, fusiform, hornbook, bear leader Shakespeare: mumble-news, ear kissing, rooky, nit Education: Mark Twain, Shaw, Shakespeare, Wilde We've been together now for forty years / Shoot father I am not afraid	Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	27:44, 26016, s
24-Apr-1964	12-01	TS124	My Bard! The Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford on Avon ticklebrain, leet, lifter, wannion Who/what: thanes of Cawdor and Fife, Verona, Shylock's daughter, King Lear's three daughters Songs: Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, Tempest, Macbeth Said about Shakespeare: Haslet, Johnson, Wilde, Olivier The quality of mercy is not strained / Four lagging winters and four wanton springs	Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	27:49, 26028, s
24-Dec-1963	11-05	TS125	Christmas edition. From St.Peter's Hospital Christmas Crackers vails, nixie, maffick, algidity Traditional shows: Charlie's Aunt, Noddy in Toyland, Wind in the Willows/Toad of Toad Hall, Wizard of Oz Verses: Come landlord fill the flowing bowl, Goodnight ladies, God bless the master of this house, Twas on a Monday morning Cracker mottos Joys like beauty are skin deep / She walks in beauty like the night	Powell, Muir, Spain, Norden Longland/Mason/Shryane	27:42, 25977, s

Nancy Spain was killed in a light aircraft accident on 21-Mar-1964. Two episodes were broadcast posthumously, probably TS 123 and 124.

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