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Date
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Episode |
Title
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Cast
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Parameters
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20-Feb-2012
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1-1 |
- Letter of the Week: J
- Toponyms of the Pops: Albany beef, Melton pod,
Picadilly weepers
- Cliche Corner: the best things in life are free, there's
more than one way to skin a cat
- Short and Tweet
- New Words for Old: Whisty poop, giff-gaff, fairy sparks, brandreth
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Stephen Fry, Lloyd Langford, Natalie Haynes, Milton Jones
Gyles Brandreth
Writers: Jon Hunter and James Kettle
Producer: Claire Jones
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27:54, 26106, S
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| 27-Feb-2011 |
1-2 |
- Most Overused: 29, innit and big-time, brillo and gd,
pleasantries
- Letter of the Week: X , double cross, Xerxes' tears,
Xerox queen, Xmas
- Phobias: dypnophobia, gelotophobia, cherophobia,
consecolatophobia
- Not in So Many Words
- Terms of the Trade: magician, witches, ice hockey
- New Words for Old: able wackets, chummage,
clapper dodgeon, rantipole
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Natalie Haynes, Michael Rosen, Arthur Smith, Paul Sinha
Gyles Brandreth
Writers: Jon Hunter and James Kettle
Producer: Claire Jones
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27:37, 25849, S |
| 05-Mar-2012 |
1-3 |
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Jack Whitehall, Milton Jones, Susie Dent, Natalie Haynes
Gyles Brandreth
Writers: Jon Hunter and James Kettle
Producer: Claire Jones
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| 12-Mar-2012 |
1-4 |
- Words you would ban: medal (v.), ultimate and literally, myself, hot desking
- Letter of the Week: O, Oliver's scull, owl in an ivy bush, Organigram, out at elbow
- Cockney rhyming slang: ally Mcgraw, dame Edna,
sausage, Conan Doyle
- Cliche Corner: can't your dog new tricks, a rolling stone gathers no moss
- Short but tweets
- New words for old: hotcockles, mouthfriend, madgehowlett, poetaster
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Natalie Haynes, Michael Rosen, Arthur Smith, Paul Sinha
Gyles Brandreth
Writers: Jon Hunter and James Kettle
Producer: Claire Jones
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28:00, 26209, S |
| 19-Mar-2012 |
1-5 |
- Words that make you happy: homophobic, blurb, apacholicatosis, anything with T
- Letter of the Week: P, plowman's lunch, partridge in a pear tree, poor man's Jersey, poor man's pork, poor man's piano, poor man's men
- Toponyms of the Pops: Chicago piano, Newcastle disease, Whitehall Jack, Glasgow kiss, Westminster wedding, Suffolkcation, Yemen Zest
- Cliches: too many cooks,
- Short but Tweets
- New Words for Old: cronk, knock knobbler, hansle,
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Jack Whitehall, Milton Jones, Natalie Haynes, Susie Dent
Gyles Brandreth
Writers: Jon Hunter and James Kettle
Producer: Claire Jones
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27:37, 25849, S |
| 26-Mar-2012 |
1-6 |
- Most beautiful word: ululation, bed, egg, ostridge-sized
- Letter of the Week: F, flashing a tattler, Fanny Adams, five-finger discount, flirty fishing, French bath, French embassy, French ache, French marble, French drive, French velvet
- Phobias: metrophobia, linnophobia, cackophobia, mycophobia, panelshowbia
- Not in so many words:
- Terms of the trade: archery, mediums,
- New words for old: cockshut, taplash, pulfin, giglet,
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Richard Herring, Natalie Haynes, Alex Horne, Jenny Eclair
Gyles Brandreth
Writers: Jon Hunter and James Kettle
Producer: Claire Jones
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27:54, 26110, S |