My Word!

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My Word! was a BBC radio quiz program, which aired from 1956-1988.  In the first half of each program, four panelists (always two men, two women) were asked questions about word definitions, origins and derivations, or the source of literary quotations, by the host.  In the second half, the two male panelists, Frank Muir and Denis Norden, were given a quotation each.  Muir and Norden then made up a comic story, ending with some twisted version (usually involving puns) of the quote.  (The story round was omitted if either Muir or Norden were absent.) For more details about the show, please see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Word! It’s difficult to date most of these programs precisely.  I’ve included dates supplied by the Global British Comedy Collaborative: http://www.thegbcc.info/w-cy/My_Word.html where available.  Otherwise, I’ve simply divided the episodes into eras according to the hosts and panelists. No episodes from the first year of the show are in general circulation. 1957-1961 Host: Jack Longland Panelists : Frank Muir, Denis Norden, E. Arnot Robertson, Nancy Spain First word: Borsch / Muir quote: A rose by any other name would smell as sweet / Norden quote: The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea First word: Moraine / Muir quote: From the sublime to the ridiculous / Norden quote: All is lost except honour / Broadcast date: 6/3/1959 --------------------- 1961-1964 Host: Jack Longland Panelists: Frank Muir, Denis Norden, Dilys Powell, Nancy Spain First word: Agoraphobia / Muir quote: He flies through the air with the greatest of ease / Norden quote: With all her faults, I love her still / Broadcast date: 7/8/1962 First word: Burke / Muir quote: If you go down in the woods today, you're sure of a big surprise / Norden quote: In the shade of the old apple tree First word: Coven / Muir quote: It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature / Norden quote: Are you sick or are you sullen First word: Desiderata / Muir quote: Oh what a beautiful morning / Norden quote: Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean First word: Dressage / Muir quote: It was roses, roses all the way / Norden quote: Take a pair of sparkling eyes First word: Emeritus / Muir quote: I wonder who's kissing her now / Norden quote: Here's to the girl with a pair of blue eyes First word: Galantine / Muir quote: I'm getting married in the morning / Norden quote: Revenge is a kind of wild justice First word: Gharry / Muir quote: I am a citizen of the world / Norden quote: I don't want to play in your yard First word: Gibus / Muir quote: When you come to the end of a perfect day / Norden quote: The age of chivalry is gone / Broadcast date: 8/26/1962 First word: Gingival / Muir quote: Don't put all your eggs into one basket / Norden quote: Slow and steady wins the race First word: Glossographer / Muir quote: You're the flower of my heart, sweet Adeline / Norden quote: Is it a world to hide virtues in First word: Gustation / Muir quote: If you have tears, prepare to shed them now / Norden quote: There are fairies at the bottom of our garden / Broadcast date: 9/23/1962 First word: Hagiolatry / Muir quote: A little more than kin, and less than kind / Norden quote: All quiet on the Western front First word: Hebetude / Muir quote: And so to bed / Norden quote: There is a happy land far far away First word: Henna / Muir quote: Seated one day at the organ / Norden quote: The old folks at home / Broadcast date: 7/1/1962 First word: Hydromel / Muir quote: I'm gonna wash that man right out of my hair / Norden quote: In the great right of an excessive wrong First word: Hyperphysical / Muir quote: He who laughs last laughs the longest / Norden quote: A new broom sweeps clean / Broadcast date: 12/25/1961 First word: Irenic / Muir quote: Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner / Norden quote: O death, where is thy sting? / Broadcast date: 8/12/1962 First word: Jacobus / Muir quote: I have nothing to declare except my genius / Norden quote: The bigger they come, the harder they fall First word: Janeite / Muir quote: The die is cast / Norden quote: Keep right on to the end of the road First word: Marginalia / Muir quote: My bonny lies over the ocean / Norden quote: Two blacks do not make a white First word: Mattoid / Muir quote: Anything awful makes me laugh / Norden quote: The shape of things to come First word: Ostreophagist / Muir quote: Honi soit, qui mal y pense / Norden quote: Against the undivulged pretense I fight First word: Planchet / Muir quote: O for the touch of a vanished hand / Norden quote: One flower makes no garland First word: Polyhistor / Muir quote: We've been together now for forty years / Norden quote: Shoot, Father, I am not afraid First word: Rahat Loqum / Muir quote: I will return / Norden quote: Should auld acquaintance be forgot First word: Riviere / Muir quote: Ring down the curtain, the farce is over / Norden quote: There never was a good war or a bad peace First word: Romaunt / Muir quote: The better part of valor is discretion / Norden quote: Sweet are the uses of adversity First word: Spurrier / Muir quote: Always take Mother's advice / Norden quote: It's naughty, but it's nice / Broadcast date: 9/30/1962 First word: Tarantism / Muir quote: A thing of beauty is a joy forever / Norden quote: She stoops to conquer / Broadcast date: 9/9/1962 First word: Ticklebrain / Muir quote: The quality of mercy is not strained / Norden quote: Four lagging winters and four wanton springs / Broadcast date: 4/24/1964 First word: Vails / Muir quote: She walks in beauty like the night / Norden quote: Joys, like beauty, are but skin deep / Broadcast date: 12/24/1963 First word: Victorine / Muir quote: Britons never, never, never will be slaves / Norden quote: Is your journey really necessary / Broadcast date: 9/16/1962 First word: Walloon / Muir quote: Here lies one whose name was writ in water / Norden quote: Put not your trust in princes First word: Wiseacre / Muir quote: All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy / Norden quote: Save me, oh save me, from the candid friend --------------------- 1964-1978 Host: Jack Longland Panelists : Frank Muir, Denis Norden, Dilys Powell, Anne Scott-James First word: Absquatulate / Muir quote: Where are the snows of yesteryear / Norden quote: If I were a bell, I'd be ringing First word: Acardiac / Muir quote: I am monarch of all I survey / Norden quote: Ne'er cast a clout til May be out First word: Ad hoc / Muir quote: Silent upon a peak in Darien / Norden quote: Honi soit, qui mal y pense / Broadcast date: 11/9/1976 First word: Agoraphobia / Muir quote: She wheels her wheelbarrow, through streets broad and narrow, crying "Cockles and mussels, alive, alive oh!" / Norden quote: So shines a good dead in a naughty world / Broadcast date: 11/25/1968 First word: Agrimoter / Muir quote: Kind hearts are more than coronets / Norden quote: My work is left behind / Broadcast date: 1/17/1968 First word: Ambivalence / Muir quote: A rag and a bone and a hank of hair / Norden quote: We who are about to die salute thee First word: Anabolic / Muir quote: None but the brave deserves the fair / Norden quote: A little touch of Harry in the night First word: Anathematize / Muir quote: A rose red city, half as old as time / Norden quote: Was this the face that launched a thousand ships First word: Animadvert / Muir quote: The girl Ieft behind me / Norden quote: People who need people are the luckiest people in the world First word: Anopheles / Muir quote: The lady is a tramp / Norden quote: Women and elephants never forget / Broadcast date: 10/8/1970 First word: Antipasto / Muir quote: Make me an offer / Norden quote: Even lovers find their peace at last First word: Armageddon / Muir quote: The best-laid schemes of mice and men gang aft a-glay / Norden quote: Your money or your life / Broadcast date: 11/9/1969 First word: Aurochs / Muir quote: Appetite comes with eating / Norden quote: The two oldest professions in the world, ruined by amateurs First word: Auscultation / Muir quote: Remember that time is money / Norden quote: For the labourer is worthy of his hire First word: Autoplasty / Muir quote: Til death us do part / Norden quote: I could not love thee, dear, so much, lov'd I not honour more First word: Aviate / Muir quote: I ain't got nobody, and there's nobody cares for me / Norden quote: Look before you leap First word: Batata / Muir quote: Honi soit, qui mal y pense / Norden quote: A crown is no cure for the headache First word: Bethesda / Muir quote: There are fairies at the bottom of our garden / Norden quote: Profuse strains of unpremeditated art / Broadcast date: 10/5/1969 First word: Bijou / Muir quote: Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at al / Norden quote: Where the blue of the night meets the gold of the day / Broadcast date: 10/7/1975 First word: Blatherskite / Muir quote: How doth the little busy bee improve each shining hour / Norden quote: The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation First word: Blottesque / Muir quote: And I was desolate and sick of an old passio / Norden quote: A soft answer turneth away wrath / Broadcast date: 2/14/1968 First word: Bohea / Muir quote: Stand a little less between me and the sun / Norden quote: A good example is the best sermon / Broadcast date: 12/27/1971 First word: Bolus / Muir quote: Here we come gathering nuts in May, on a cold and frosty morning / Norden quote: You can't have your cake and eat it too First word: Brassage / Muir quote: Now cracks a noble heart / Norden quote: Prevention is better than cure / Broadcast date: 12/30/1968 First word: Brevicaudate / Muir quote: Et tu, Brute / Norden quote: It never rains but it pours / Broadcast date: 3/27/1968 First word: Brouhaha / Muir quote: Now is the winter of our discontent / Norden quote: The historian is a prophet looking backwards First word: Brumby / Muir quote: You come most carefully upon your hour / Norden quote: More happy, if less wise First word: Bumblepuppy / Muir quote: A thing of beauty is a joy forever / Norden quote: Cast thy bread upon the waters / Broadcast date: 12/10/1974 First word: Cabalistic / Muir quote: All my possessions for a moment of time / Norden quote: Never underestimate the power of a woman First word: Cabless / Muir quote: Deceits of the world, the flesh, and the devil / Norden quote: Our antagonist is our helper First word: Calumet / Muir quote: I can't give you anything but love / Norden quote: It is safer to obey than to rule / Broadcast date: 10/12/1969 First word: Camp / Muir quote: And so to bed / Norden quote: Till the sands of the deserts grow cold First word: Cedilla / Muir quote: When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces / Norden quote: Oh the little more, and how much it is First word: Cellarette / Muir quote: The sound of music / Norden quote: Our watchword is security First word: Chauvinism / Muir quote: Hello, hello, who's your lady friend / Norden quote: Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains First word: Christmastide / Muir quote: Life is one long process of getting tired / Norden quote: There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly / Broadcast date: 12/18/1964 First word: Clone / Muir quote: Toot toot tootsie, goodbye / Norden quote: Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea First word: Coloury / Muir quote: I do like to be beside the seaside / Norden quote: A happy issue out of all their afflictions / Broadcast date: 12/7/1969 First word: Compotater / Muir quote: Mad, bad, and dangerous to know / Norden quote: It's a great day for the Irish First word: Concatenation / Muir quote: The battle of Waterloo was won in the playing fields of Eton / Norden quote: Festina lente First word: Congé / Muir quote: I feel no pain, dear mother, now / Norden quote: Where are the snows of yesteryear First word: Corbie / Muir quote: The law is not concerned with trifles / Norden quote: Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery First word: Cousin-german / Muir quote: They bore him barefaced on the bier / Norden quote: Now Is the winter of our discontent / Broadcast date: 10/25/1966 First word: Crampon / Muir quote: I am myself indifferent honest / Norden quote: All power is a trust, and we are accountable for its exercise First word: Crosse / Muir quote: I shot an arrow into the air / Norden quote: Hope springs eternal in the human breast First word: Cryogeny / Muir quote: I wouldn't leave my little wooden hut for you / Norden quote: The proof of the pudding is in the eating / Broadcast date: 2/7/1968 First word: Curtail step / Muir quote: Have gun, will travel / Norden quote: Many hands make light work / Broadcast date: 9/28/1969 First word: Dander / Muir quote: My little grey home in the west / Norden quote: Not a translation, only taken from the French / Broadcast date: 12/2/1968 First word: Decimate / Muir quote: The lass with the delicate air / Norden quote: Say it with flowers First word: Defenestration / Muir quote: Get thee behind me, Satan / Norden quote: The triumph of mind over matter First word: Demiurge / Muir quote: A rose-red city, half as old as time / Norden quote: De mortuis, nil nicit bunkum First word: Detritus / Muir quote: Truth is stranger than fiction / Norden quote: Is there honey still for tea First word: Dichotomy / Muir quote: Come into the garden, Maude / Norden quote: Charity begins at home First word: Dicker / Muir quote: I find the medicine worse than the malady / Norden quote: Old soldiers never die, they only fade away First word: Discarnate / Muir quote: Bonnie and Clyde / Norden quote: Honesty is the best policy / Broadcast date: 4/15/1968 First word: Dobbin / Muir quote: Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay / Norden quote: Should auld acquaintance be forgot First word: Drybob / Muir quote: Where my caravan has rested / Norden quote: Marry in haste, repent at leisure / Broadcast date: 3/6/1968 First word: Ecdysiast / Muir quote: Dirty British coaster, with a salt-caked smokestack / Norden quote: He who hesitates is lost First word: Ectoplasm / Muir quote: Oh pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth / Norden quote: More matter with less art / Broadcast date: 11/11/1968 First word: Ecumenical / Muir quote: He who hesitates is lost / Norden quote: The pirates of Penzance First word: Effendi / Muir quote: I come from haunts of coot and hern / Norden quote: One volunteer is worth ten pressed men First word: Effulgent / Muir quote: Publish and be damned / Norden quote: We shall shortly see better days First word: Elan / Muir quote: Ah sweet mystery of life / Norden quote: We have no time to stand and stare First word: Eland / Muir quote: And thereby hangs a tale / Norden quote: My old man said follow the van First word: Embolism / Muir quote: The unspeakable, in full pursuit of the uneatable / Norden quote: A storm in a teacup First word: Equiverous / Muir quote: None were for the party, all were for the state / Norden quote: A thing of beauty is a joy forever, its loveliness increases / Broadcast date: 2/28/1968 First word: Esoteric / Muir quote: Never, never, never, never, never / Norden quote: Take a pair of sparkling eyes First word: Eupeptic / Muir quote: Old soldiers never die / Norden quote: There is a tide in the affairs of men First word: Ewer / Muir quote: You left behind a broken doll / Norden quote: Let them eat cake First word: Exotic / Muir quote: Last of the Mohicans / Norden quote: Next of kin First word: Expurgefaction / Muir quote: It's a long lane that has no turning / Norden quote: A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse First word: Febrile / Muir quote: For whom the bell tolls / Norden quote: You made me love you, I didn't want to do it First word: Fer-de-lance / Muir quote: The rest Is silence / Norden quote: Now I am on the side of the angels First word: Fimbriated / Muir quote: Take it from here / Norden quote: History is bunk / Broadcast date: 12/14/1969 First word: Finnan / Muir quote: There is a happy land far far away / Norden quote: Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all First word: Flageolet / Muir quote: So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side / Norden quote: The moving finger writes, and having writ moves on First word: Flummery / Muir quote: The passing of the third floor back / Norden quote: Beggars can't be choosers First word: Flump / Muir quote: He jests at scars that never felt a wound / Norden quote: Rather bear those ills we know, than fly to others we know not of First word: Formication / Broadcast date: 11/18/1975 / John Wells in for Muir First word: Frangipani / Muir quote: The son and heir of a mongrel bitch / Norden quote: Only connect First word: Frontistery / Muir quote: There's a long, long trail a-winding / Norden quote: Was this the face that launched a thousand ships First word: Fuliginous / Muir quote: Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever / Norden quote: Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party First word: Furbelow / Muir quote: Too many cooks spoil the broth / Norden quote: There's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip First word: Fustanella / Muir quote: Take thy beak from out of my heart / Norden quote: There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible / Broadcast date: 11/18/1968 First word: Galactophagist / Muir quote: The proof of the pudding is in the eating / Norden quote: I moved my lips, the pilot shrieked and fell down in a fit First word: Galateer / Muir quote: Not with a bang, but a whimper / Norden quote: His word is as good as his bond First word: Gallimaufry / Muir quote: Between the devil and the deep blue sea / Norden quote: Splendor in the grass First word: Gallivant / Muir quote: There are fairies at the bottom of our garden / Norden quote: Once I had a secret love First word: Gargoyle / Muir quote: All things bright and beautiful / Norden quote: Yes, madam, nature is creeping up First word: Gerrymander / Muir quote: Busy as a Bee / Norden quote: At Christmas I no more desire a rose First word: Glabrous / Muir quote: O mistress mine, where are you roaming / Norden quote: He travels the fastest who travels alone First word: Glitch / Muir quote: The game is not worth the candle / Norden quote: I think, therefore I am First word: Gobbledegook / Muir quote: Circumstances alter cases / Norden quote: It matters not that you win or lose, but how you play the game First word: Ha-ha / Muir quote: There are fairies at the bottom of our garden / Norden quote: Putting the cart before the horse First word: Hallelujah / Muir quote: Goodbye, Mr. Chips / Norden quote: A time to be born, and a time to die First word: Hapless / Muir quote: Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner / Norden quote: It is better to be envied than pitied / Broadcast date: 12/16/1968 First word: Hobbledehoy / Muir quote: Healing is a matter of time / Norden quote: I dream of Jeannie with the light brown hair First word: Homophone / Muir quote: Kind hearts are more than coronets / Norden quote: One man's meat is another man's poison First word: Hydrolysis / Muir quote: My love is like a red red rose / Norden quote: Forever amber / Broadcast date: 2/21/1968 First word: Hyetometer / Muir quote: The pen is mightier than the sword / Norden quote: A watched pot never boils / Broadcast date: 1/13/1969 First word: Hypaethral / Muir quote: To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive / Norden quote: A stitch in time saves nine First word: Icosahedron / Muir quote: Oh what can ail thee, knight at arms / Norden quote: The buyer needs a hundred eyes / Broadcast date: 10/1/1972 First word: Idolum / Muir quote: Oh for the wings, the wings of a dove / Norden quote: Humble cares and delicate fears / Broadcast date: 3/13/1968 First word: Imbroglio / Muir quote: Hail to thee, blithe spirit, bird thou never wert / Norden quote: More in sorrow than in anger First word: Incubus / Muir quote: I wouldn't leave my little wooden hut for you / Norden quote: He who hesitates is lost First word: Incunabula / Muir quote: A pun is the lowest form of wit / Norden quote: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers First word: Indigent / Muir quote: The dawn comes up like thunder / Norden quote: Where there's a will, there's a way First word: Jabot / Muir quote: You always hurt the one you love / Norden quote: A bird in a gilded cage First word: Jacobus / Muir quote: Fine feathers make fine birds / Norden quote: We must cling to our legends, sir / incomplete; fair sound with some static, skips First word: Jocko / Muir quote: How to win friends and influence people / Norden quote: Wonders will never cease / Broadcast date: 10/26/1969 First word: Junta / Muir quote: Anyone for tennis / Norden quote: Here today, gone tomorrow / Broadcast date: 11/23/1969 First word: Jurisprudence / Muir quote: Someday I'll find you / Norden quote: How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child First word: Katydid / Muir quote: Of shoes, and ships, and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings / Norden quote: More in sorrow than in anger First word: Kepi / Muir quote: O, east is east, and west is west, and never the twain shall meet / Norden quote: My head is bloody but unbowed First word: Kit-cat / Muir quote: To travel hopefully is better than to arrive / Norden quote: A rose by any other name would smell as sweet First word: Krincumkrankum / Muir quote: The fleas that tease in the high Pyrenees / Norden quote: Do not go gentle into that good night First word: Licit / Muir quote: If at first you don't succeed, try try again / Norden quote: Actions speak louder than words / Broadcast date: 11/16/1969 First word: Loblolly / Muir quote: A penny plain and twopence coloured / Norden quote: Tis better to have loved and lost First word: Longanimity / Muir quote: Beware the awful avalanche / Norden quote: Parting is such sweet sorrow First word: Lucubration / Muir quote: There's a breathless hush in the close tonight / Norden quote: Two's company, three's a crowd First word: Macabre / Muir quote: A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles / Norden quote: To innovate is not to reform First word: Mahout / Muir quote: Journeys end in lovers meeting / Norden quote: Willful waste makes woeful want First word: Malapert / Muir quote: Pennies long saved amount to pounds at last / Norden quote: More haste less speed First word: Malversation / Muir quote: He fills a chair / Norden quote: How they brought the good news from Ghent to Aix First word: Mangrove / Muir quote: She's my sweetheart, I'm her beau / Norden quote: Actions speak louder than words First word: Manitou / Muir quote: Half a loaf is better than no bread / Norden quote: Not lost but gone before First word: Martello / Muir quote: Full-blown poppies, overcharged with rain, decline the head and, drooping, kiss the plain / Norden quote: Honesty is the best policy First word: Masque / Muir quote: It was roses, roses all the way / Norden quote: As I stroll along the Bois de Boulogne with an independent air First word: Megacephallic / Muir quote: For men may come, and men may go, but I go on forever / Norden quote: Better to love amiss, than nothing to have loved First word: Megatonne / Muir quote: Blow you, Jack, I'm all right / Norden quote: Legs are staple products / Broadcast date: 1/24/1968 First word: Meiosis / Muir quote: Let us now praise famous men and the fathers who begat us / Norden quote: A rose is a rose is a rose First word: Miasma / Muir quote: Beggars cannot be choosers / Norden quote: I'm dreaming of a white Christmas / Broadcast date: 12/24/1974 First word: Microsisem / Muir quote: I'd walk a million miles for one of your smiles / Norden quote: Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery / Broadcast date: 1/31/1968 First word: Misericord / Muir quote: Arsenic and old lace / Norden quote: Ships that pass in the night First word: Misology / Muir quote: An ill-favored thing, sir, but mine own / Norden quote: All I ask is a tall ship First word: Mnemonic / Muir quote: Allons, enfants de la patrie / Norden quote: The female of the species is more deadly than the male First word: Mumbo-Jumbo / Muir quote: You may fool all of the people some of the time, or you can fool some of the people all of the time, but you can never fool all the people all of the time / Norden quote: Falstaff shall die of a sweat / Broadcast date: 10/28/1975 / Katharine Whitehorn in for Scott-James First word: Myriologue / Muir quote: Pop goes the weasel / Norden quote: Hard words break no bones First word: Nuncheon / Muir quote: If music be the food of love, play on / Norden quote: Charity shall cover the multitude of sins First word: Oxyopia / Muir quote: They also serve who only stand and wait / Norden quote: Do not cross your bridge till you come to it First word: Palifet / Muir question: The book in which these characters appear: Smike, Newman Noggs, Crummles / Norden question: Who wrote, "The best things carried to excess are wrong"? First word: Palmiped / Muir quote: They also serve who only stand and wait / Norden quote: Where there's a will, there's a way First word: Panjandrum / Muir quote: Oh that this too too solid flesh would melt / Norden quote: The grandeur that was Rome First word: Pantisocracy / Broadcast date: 12/30/1975 / John Wells in for Norden First word: Parachronism / Broadcast date: 5/9/1967 / Lionel Hale in for Muir First word: Patronymic / Muir quote: Has anybody here seen Kelly? K-E-double L-Y / Norden quote: He shall have a noble memory First word: Patty-Pan / Muir quote: Parting is such sweet sorrow / Norden quote: There is no accounting for taste First word: Pea-jacket / John Wells in for Norden First word: Pedagogy / Muir quote: Tell me where is fancy bred / Norden quote: Yon solitary Highland lass First word: Pent / Muir quote: East is east, and west is west, and never the twain shall meet / Norden quote: As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods First word: Peripatetic / Muir quote: Any old iron / Norden quote: What you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts First word: Perjink / Muir quote: If music be the food of love, play on / Norden quote: See what the boys in the back room will have First word: Pilosity / Muir quote: There's many a slip betwixt the cup and the lip / Norden quote: A stitch in time saves nine First word: Pinfold / Muir quote: One good turn deserves another / Norden quote: The thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to First word: Pithecanthrope / Muir quote: Is your journey really necessary / Norden quote: What are the wild waves saying / Broadcast date: 10/19/1969 First word: Pittite / Muir quote: One good turn deserves another / Norden quote: Up, up, my friend, and quit your books / Broadcast date: 12/21/1969 First word: Pizzazz / Muir quote: I'm going to see a man about a dog / Norden quote: Was this the face that launched a thousand ships First word: Plethora / Muir quote: There's no business like show business / Norden quote: Screw your courage to the sticking-place First word: Podagra / Muir quote: Eureka / Norden quote: Money is the root of all evil First word: Pogonophobia / Muir quote: We lost our little Hannah, in a very painful manner / Norden quote: Every prospect pleases, and only man is vile First word: Polythalamous / Muir quote: Stone walls do not a prison make / Norden quote: The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear First word: Potamology / Muir quote: The pen is mightier than the sword / Norden quote: Good luck have thou with thine honour First word: Pragmatic / Muir quote: There is no fire without some smoke / Norden quote: Ships that pass in the night First word: Primogenitor / Muir quote: Is your journey really necessary / Norden quote: A little touch of Harry in the night First word: Proletentiousness / Muir quote: Fools who came to scoff remained to pray / Norden quote: What shall we do with a drunken sailor First word: Pseudologer / Muir quote: I did but see her passing by / Norden quote: The least said, soonest mended / Broadcast date: 3/20/1968 First word: Pusillanimous / Muir quote: The lady of the lamp / Norden quote: Sweet are the uses of adversity First word: Quinsy / Muir quote: A jug of wine, a loaf of bread, and thou / Norden quote: Coming events cast their shadows before First word: Rapine / Muir quote: Beware the ides of March / Norden quote: A piercing pain, a killing sin / Broadcast date: 4/22/1968 First word: Recherché / Muir quote: The game is up / Norden quote: A nightingale in the sycamore First word: Recrudescent / Muir quote: A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose / Norden quote: United we stand, divided we fall First word: Redingote / Muir quote: He flies through the air with the greatest of ease / Norden quote: Nor iron bars a cage First word: Repoussé / Muir quote: Don't cross your bridges until you come to them / Norden quote: There is a destiny that shaped our ends, rough-hew them how we will First word: Rife / Muir quote: From the sublime to the ridiculous / Norden quote: I'd gladly go from rags to riches First word: Ruddock / Muir quote: Drink to me only with thine eyes / Norden quote: My courage and my skill, to him that can get it / Broadcast date: 11/2/1969 First word: Sake / Muir quote: It's a long way to Tipperary / Norden quote: Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows First word: Saturnalia / Muir quote: Ah! sweet mystery of life, at last I've found you / Norden quote: Damn with faint praise First word: Saturnine / Muir quote: I do like to be beside the seaside / Norden quote: Hail to thee, blithe spirit First word: Sciamachy / Muir quote: Where are the snows of yesteryear / Norden quote: The girl that I marry will have to be as soft and as pink as a nursery First word: Scree / Muir quote: Wonders will never cease / Norden quote: Our fears do make us traitors First word: Scrimshaw / Muir quote: Half a loaf is better than no bread / Norden quote: You must take the rough with the smooth / Broadcast date: 9/27/1971 First word: Securiform / Muir quote: The remedy is worse than the disease / Norden quote: For men may come, and men may go, but I go on forever First word: Sesame / Muir quote: The lamps are going out all over Europe / Norden quote: Events repeat themselves First word: Sinophobia / Muir quote: There's no place like home / Norden quote: And gentlemen in England now abed shall feel accursed / Broadcast date: 4/1/1968 First word: Snaffle / Muir quote: Count your blessings one by one / Norden quote: To each his sufferings / Broadcast date: 1/6/1969 First word: Solatium / Muir quote: Half a loaf is better than no bread / Norden quote: But those behind cried "Forward!", and those before cried "Back!" First word: Spumedrift or spoondrift / Muir quote: The lamps are going out all over Europe / Norden quote: She was a phantom of delight First word: Sternutation / Muir quote: Believe it or not / Norden quote: Blood is thicker than water First word: Suable / Muir quote: To err is human, to forgive divine / Norden quote: Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness First word: Suasion / Muir quote: And so to bed / Norden quote: Truth Is stranger than fiction First word: Sumptuary / Muir quote: People in glass houses should never throw stones / Norden quote: Wait 'till the sun shines, Nellie First word: Supercillious / Muir quote: Hail to thee blithe spirit, bird thou never wert / Norden quote: An infinite capacity for taking pains First word: Sycophant / Muir quote: What's the good of a home if you are never in it / Norden quote: The moment I saw you First word: Synoptic / Muir quote: The miner's dream of home / Norden quote: East is east, and west is west, and never the twain shall meet First word: Tatterdemalion / Muir quote: There are fairies at the bottom of our garden / Norden quote: Distance lends enchantment to the view First word: Throe / Muir quote: A thing of beauty is a joy forever / Norden quote: Circumstances alter cases / Broadcast date: 12/9/1968 First word: Tintinnabulation / Muir quote: The more haste, the less speed / Norden quote: April in Paris / Broadcast date: 10/1/1974 First word: Tippy / Muir quote: An ill-favoured thing, sir, but mine own / Norden quote: A new broom sweeps clean / Broadcast date: 11/30/1969 First word: Titubant / Muir quote: Chacun à son goût / Norden quote: Nothing succeeds like success First word: Tuff / Muir quote: If you have tears, prepare to shed them now / Norden quote: Make hunger thy sauce First word: Tufthunter / Muir quote: The rank is but the guinea stamp / Norden quote: Just like the ivy, I'll cling to you First word: Turpitude / Muir quote: A policeman's lot is not a happy one / Norden quote: How are the mighty fallen First word: Ufologist / Muir quote: If you have tears, prepare to shed them now / Norden quote: A soft answer turneth away wrath First word: Unau / Muir quote: Please don't talk about me when I've gone / Norden quote: Discretion is the better part of valor / Broadcast date: 12/23/1968 First word: Vitiate / Muir quote: Out of the frying pan, into the fire / Norden quote: Nothing succeeds like success First word: Widdershins / Muir quote: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious / Norden quote: They tried to tell us we're too young First word: Wivern or wyvern / Muir quote: If winter comes, can spring be far behind / Norden quote: A portion of the eternal / Broadcast date: 4/8/1968 First word: Wombling / Muir quote: Remember that time is money / Norden quote: The time is out of joint First word: Zombie / Muir quote: A woman's work is never done / Norden quote: Double, double, toil and trouble --------------------- 1978-1982 Host: John Julius Norwich Panelists: Antonia Fraser, Frank Muir, Denis Norden, Dilys Powell First word: Allopath / Muir quote: O for the touch of a vanished hand / Norden quote: You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink First word: Arachidic / Muir quote: Leave no stone unturned / Norden quote: My sweet little Alice Blue Gown / Broadcast date: 10/5/1980 First word: Caustic Comments: A Tortoiseshell Cat Having a Fit / Muir quote: Parlez-moi d'amour / Norden quote: Anchors aweigh First word: Charleyhorse / Muir quote: As the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of a fool / Norden quote: Do not try to bite off more than you can chew First word: Cinerarium / Muir quote: I am monarch of all I survey / Norden quote: The stars and stripes forever First word: Dromophobia / Broadcast date: 12/7/1980 / Barry Took in for Norden First word: Impromptu remarks: Good morning gentlemen both / Muir quote: The rite of spring / Norden quote: The agony and the ecstacy / Broadcast date: 12/30/1981 First word: Incomplete proverbs: A dog's nose and a maid's knee are / Muir quote: Noël / Norden quote: Mary had a little lamb First word: Mubblefubbles / Muir quote: One good turn deserves another / Norden quote: Little brown jug, how I love thee First word: Odd Man Out: Snails, Sugar, Frogs, Tails of Puppy Dogs / Muir quote: All things bright and beautiful / Norden quote: Pardon me boy, is that the Chattanooga Choo Choo? First word: Personal announcements: I Am Going To Introduce Sex Into Romeo and Juliet / Muir quote: Somewhere over the rainbow / Norden quote: People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones First word: Pseudoscope / Muir quote: Tess of the d'Urbevilles / Norden quote: Why so pale and wan, fond lover / Broadcast date: 10/17/1979 First word: Ptisan / Muir quote: A source of innocent merriment / Norden quote: Tomorrow to fresh woods and pastures new / Scott-James in for Fraser First word: Sparable / Muir quote: Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner / Norden quote: Thanks for the memory / Scott-James in for Fraser First word: Verbal Vagaries: Month, Silver, Spirit, Chimney / Muir quote: It's a long way to Tipperary / Norden quote: You can't have your cake and eat it too First word: Victorian Vulgarisms / Muir quote: A sadder and a wiser man, he rose the morrow morn / Norden quote: Nothing succeeds like success / Broadcast date: 11/23/1980 / Gillian Reynolds in for Fraser First word: Zonesthesia / Muir quote: Half a loaf is better than no bread / Norden quote: I'm dancing with tears in my eyes / Broadcast date: 10/2/1980 --------------------- 1982-1983 Host: Antonia Fraser Panelists: Frank Muir, Denis Norden, Dilys Powell, Irene Thomas First word: Baldric / Muir quote: I left my heart in San Francisco / Norden quote: The biggest aspidistra in the world / Broadcast date: 1/19/1983 First word: Fumarole / Muir quote: Don't cry for me, Argentina / Norden quote: Honesty is the best policy / Broadcast date: 2/16/1983 First word: Macaronic / Muir quote: Henry IV, Part 1 / Norden quote: For whom the bell tolls / Broadcast date: 12/15/1982 First word: Quincunx / Muir quote: Somewhere over the rainbow / Norden quote: More in sorrow than in anger / Broadcast date: 2/23/1983 --------------------- 1983-1988 Host: Michael O’Donnell Panelists: Antonia Fraser, Frank Muir, Denis Norden, Dilys Powell First word: Abecedary / Muir quote: In memoriam / Norden quote: All the news fit to print First word: Abetting / Muir quote: Once more into the breach, dear friends, once more / Norden quote: I've got a little list First word: Amanuensis / Muir quote: Close encounters of the third kind / Norden quote: Who was that lady I saw you with last night First word: Bibliophily / Muir quote: Twelfth Night, or What You Will / Norden quote: Nobody knows the trouble I've seen First word: Caprification / Muir quote: Down among the sheltering palms / Norden quote: Off we go into the wild blue yonder / Broadcast date: 1/29/1985 First word: Cicatrice / Muir quote: My word is my bond / Norden quote: An American in Paris First word: Epicurean / Muir quote: The heart of the matter / Norden quote: The flight of the bumblebee First word: Febrifuge / Muir quote: Alice in Wonderland / Norden quote: A stitch in time saves nine / Broadcast date: 1/8/1985 First word: Fenestration / Muir quote: The sound of music / Norden quote: This was the noblest Roman of them all First word: Fizgig / Muir quote: I want to say thanks for that lovely weekend / Norden quote: Hitch your wagon to a star First word: Fustigation / Muir quote: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times / Norden quote: Alice though the looking glass First word: Gizzard / Muir quote: Tales from the Vienna woods / Norden quote: By the time I get to Phoenix / Broadcast date: 1/7/1986 First word: Golden Ass / Muir quote: For whom the bell tolls / Norden quote: Things that go bump in the night First word: Gromp, boondock, squidger, squopping / Muir quote: Treasure Island / Norden quote: Never give a sucker an even break First word: Gubernatorial / Muir quote: Somewhere over the rainbow / Norden quote: Someday I'll find you First word: Halcyon / Muir quote: The pirates of Penzance / Norden quote: Do re mi fa sol la ti First word: Hepatic / Muir quote: Here today, gone tomorrow / Norden quote: There's a sucker born every minute / Broadcast date: 1/31/1984 First word: Hunting the Common Denominator / Muir quote: The Hotel du Lac / Norden quote: The Walrus and the Carpenter First word: Hypocoristic / Muir quote: The boy I love is up in the gallery / Norden quote: It only happens when I dance with you / Broadcast date: 11/22/1983 First word: Islands of Langerhans / Muir quote: There's no business like show business / Norden quote: If they ask me, I could write a book First word: Izzard / Muir quote: Oh dear, what can the matter be / Norden quote: Every little movement has a meaning of its own First word: Jejune / Muir quote: Rule Britannia / Norden quote: Come into the garden, Maude First word: Lallation / Muir quote: It's six of one and a half-dozen of the other / Norden quote: Everybody loves somebody sometime First word: Limbo / Broadcast date: 2/5/1985 / Edward Blishen in for Norden First word: Majuscule / Muir quote: Hallelujah / Norden quote: Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner First word: Meeting Places / Muir quote: Try a little tenderness / Norden quote: Silence gives consent First word: Nasal organs / Muir quote: Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde / Norden quote: Friends, Romans, countrymen / Broadcast date: 2/11/1986 / P. D. James in for Fraser First word: Obloquy / Muir quote: 1984 / Norden quote: I'm putting all my eggs in one basket First word: Odd Man Out: Free gift / Muir quote: A room with a view / Norden quote: And this is my beloved First word: Pollical / Muir quote: A change is as good as a rest / Norden quote: Do not count your chickens until they are hatched / Broadcast date: 12/4/1984 First word: Regional variations / Muir quote: Rose of Washington Square / Norden quote: The end justifies the means First word: The Rolling English Road / Muir quote: Your eyes are the eyes of a woman in love / Norden quote: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious First word: Rose, Tiger Lily, Larkspur and Several Daisies / Muir quote: I wonder who's kissing her now / Norden quote: It's a long lane that has no turning / Broadcast date: 1/28/1986 / Gay Search in for Fraser First word: Sesquipedalian / Muir quote: Onward, Christian soldiers / Norden quote: Red sails in the sunset First word: Songs from the Shows - Here's To the Maiden of Bashful Fifteen / Muir quote: Popocatépetl / Norden quote: It'll be all right on the night First word: Symposium / Muir quote: Of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings / Norden quote: You and the night and the music / Broadcast date: 1/15/1985 / Scott-James in for Fraser First word: Three of a Kind: Cuddy, Nirrup, Pronkus / Muir quote: Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner / Norden quote: What can't be cured must be endured First word: Three of a Kind: Pamela, Wendy, Lorna / Muir quote: The Count of Monte Cristo / Norden quote: Experience teaches First word: Tushery / Muir quote: Mene Mene Tekhel Upharsin / Norden quote: Hoist with his own petard First word: Twas the Night Before Xmas / Muir quote: An ill-favored thing, sir, but mine own / Norden quote: I think, therefore I am First word: Unfavourable Reviews / Muir quote: No man is an island / Norden quote: Love is a many-splendored thing / Scott-James and Victoria Glendenning in for Fraser and Powell First word: Unlikely Connections / Muir quote: Eureka / Norden quote: Too marvelous for words First word: Verbal Vagaries: A jovial swain should not complain / Muir quote: Round the world in eighty days / Norden quote: A little learning is a dangerous thing

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