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Susie Dent and Gyles Brandreth invite you to enhance your vocabulary, uncover the hidden origins of language and share their love of words in this award-winning podcast.
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Hupnos
This week, Susie and Gyles drift off far far away to the land of sleep...
So tune in and embark on a journey through the nocturnal landscape of words.
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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:
Nescience: An absence of knowledge; ignorance.
Phobophobia: The fear of being afraid.
Rasorial: Characteristically scratching the ground for food.
Gyles' poem this week was 'Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed (Sonnet 27)' by William Shakespeare
Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,
The dear repose for limbs with travel tired;
But then begins a journey in my head,
To work my mind, when body’s work’s expired:
For then my thoughts, from far where I abide,
Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee,
And keep my drooping eyelids open wide,
Looking on darkness which the blind do see:
Save that my soul’s imaginary sight
Presents thy shadow to my sightless view,
Which, like a jewel hung in ghastly night,
Makes black night beauteous and her old face new.
Lo! Thus, by day my limbs, by night my mind,
For thee and for myself no quiet find.
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Wit and Wisdom A-Z: Malcolm X
'You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.'
Malcolm X: A leader in the civil rights movement, a Minister, and a supporter of Black nationalism.
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Mundungus
This week, Susie and Gyles explore fragrances and scents. Join us as we inhale the sweet aromas of people and places...
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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:
Acang: To act foolishly, lose self-control.
Anythingarian: One who professes no creed in particular; an indifferentist.
Coleworts: Old news. Literally, a cabbage-like plant. From the proverb for “old news,” “coleworts twice sodden’.
Gyles' poem this week was 'Home Thoughts, From Abroad' by Richard Browning
Oh, to be in England
Now that April's there,
And whoever wakes in England
Sees, some morning, unaware,
That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf
Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf,
While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough
In England—now!
And after April, when May follows,
And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows!
Hark, where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge
Leans to the field and scatters on the clover
Blossoms and dewdrops—at the bent spray's edge—
That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over,
Lest you should think he never could recapture
The first fine careless rapture!
And though the fields look rough with hoary dew,
All will be gay when noontide wakes anew
The buttercups, the little children's dower
—Far brighter than this gaudy melon-flower!
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Wit and Wisdom A-Z: Mae West
'I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.'
Mae West: American actress, and a unforgettable sex symbol.
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Botulus
*Cough cough*... This week Susie and Gyles explore the language of diseases. From Cholera to Mumps, and Malaria to Influenza, they have you covered.
Also, we reveal the WINNERS of our 'To Dent' and 'To Brandreth' competition!
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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:
Shackbaggerly: Disordered and unkempt.
Komorebi (Japanese): The patterns cast by sunlight filtering through trees.
Gruttling (old East Anglian dialect): A strange, inexplicable noise.
Gyles' poem this week was 'Sick Room' by Billy Collins
Every time Canaletto painted Venice
he painted her from a different angle,
sometimes from point of view
he must have imagined,
for there is no place in the city
he could have stood and observed such scenes.
How ingenious of him to visualise
a dome or canal from any point in space.
How passionate he was
to delineate Venice from perspectives
that required him to mount the air
and levitate there with his floating brush.
But I have been sick in this bed
for over sixty hours,
and I am not Canaletto,
and this airless little room,
with its broken ceiling fan
and it monstrous wallpaper, is not Venice.
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Wit and Wisdom A-Z: Kurt Vonnegut
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut: Satirical writer, American soldier, and prisoner of war.
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Customer Reviews
Amazing
Mr. Giles...shhhhh! Stop interrupting Ms. Dent! Just stop!
I can feel myself getting smarter!
Such and cozy listen. Susie and Gyles are so smart and funny. I love this podcast!
A Favorite
10 stars, 5 for Susie and 5 for Gyles. My goal is not to shout out other podcasts, but I find it funny that my favorite podcasts are all British: “something rhymes with purple”, “no such thing as a fish” and “the infinite monkey cage”. What do the names of these podcasts say about language, and more important, what does it say about me, a medical professional in Alaska!! Keep us laughing…we all need it!