Wordaholics - Radio 4 Panel Show - British Comedy Guide (original) (raw)

Genre

Panel Show

Broadcast

2012 - 2014

Channel

BBC Radio 4

Episodes

18 (3 series)

Stars

Gyles Brandreth and Natalie Haynes

Writers

Jon Hunter and James Kettle

Producer

Claire Jones

Company

Gyles Brandreth hosts this comedy game about words, in which linguistic brainboxes such as Stephen Fry, Milton Jones and Lloyd Langford vie for supremacy.

There are toponyms, abbreviations, euphemisms, old words, new words, cockney rhyming slang, Greek gobbledegook, plus the panellists' picks of the ugliest and the most beautiful words. It's the whole world of words in 28 minutes.

Find out the meaning of words like giff-gaff, knock-knobbler and buckfitches; the difference between French marbles, French velvet and the French ache and hear the glorious poetry of the English language, as practiced by writers ranging from William Shakespeare to Vanilla Ice.

Natalie Haynes is a regular on all the episodes. Other panellists taking part include Jenny Eclair, Richard Herring and Alex Horne.

Additional details

Production

Studio

Soundtrack

Theme music is Wordy Rappinghood by Tom Tom Club.

Broadcast details

First broadcast

Monday 20th February 2012 at 11:30am on BBC Radio 4

Next repeats

  1. Series 3, Episode 4: Thursday at 2pm on Radio 4 Extra
  2. Series 3, Episode 4: Thursday at 8pm on Radio 4 Extra
  3. Series 3, Episode 4: Friday 4th October at 4am on Radio 4 Extra
  4. Series 3, Episode 5: Thursday 10th October at 2pm on Radio 4 Extra
  5. Series 3, Episode 5: Thursday 10th October at 8pm on Radio 4 Extra
  6. Series 3, Episode 5: Friday 11th October at 4am on Radio 4 Extra

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