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Lexicologist Susie Dent

Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie are joined by lexicologist Susie Dent.

Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie: wrestling all afternoon for your delight on the fluffy audio hearth rug. One might call the show a daily 'nepenthe' (ni-pen-thee): a magical potion that helps you forget all your troubles. Or maybe you'd say after listening to Mark and Stuart chat for five minutes that you were 'blutterbunged': a useful old dialect word for being 'overcome by surprise and utterly confounded'. Who better to tell us more excellent words like this than lexicologist and etymologist, Susie Dent. She's the resident word expert in Dictionary Corner on C4's Countdown and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, and comments regularly on TV and radio on words in the news, and has contributed to Woman's Hour, 15 x 15, Word of Mouth, More or Less, Today, 91热爆 Breakfast, and R4's Wordaholics. She's spent years interviewing hundreds of professionals, hobbyists and enthusiasts collecting the secret languages surrounding us in everyday life - from the Freemason's handshake to the publican's banter - and she's here to tell us more about it.

And that's not all, get involved with Tea Time Theme Time by trying to guess the link between 3 brilliant records sent in by one of you brilliant lot - and then there's The Chain, where over 6000 records are linked somehow to each other - and for you to choose and then could be on the radio itself, letting us all know your Chain record link! What more could you want? Eh? Eh?

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Music Played

  • Manic Street Preachers

    Faster

  • Whyte Horses

    The Snowfalls

    • CRC Recordings.

  • Be Bop Deluxe

    Maid In Heaven

    • See For Miles.

  • The Ikettes

    I'm Blue (The Gong-Gong Song)

    • Single.
    • ATCO Records.

  • Wilco

    Someone To Lose

    • dBpm Records.

  • Baloji

    Spoiler

    • Bella Union.

  • Lloyd Cole & Commotion

    Lost Weekend

    • Polydor.

  • A Tribe Called Quest

    Melatonin

    • Epic Records.

  • Hank Snow

    The Reindeer Boogie

  • Kurtis Blow

    Christmas Rappin'

    • Mercury.

  • Bonobo

    Kerala

    • Migration.
    • Ninja Tune.

  • Happy Mondays

    Hallelujah

    • Factory Records.

  • Shivaree

    Goodnight Moon

    • EMI.

  • Boxed In

    Melt

    • Nettwerk Records.

  • Josefin 脰hrn + The Liberation

    Rushing Through My Mind

  • Scritti Politti

    The Word Girl

    • VIRGIN.

  • Kae Tempest

    Breakfast

    • Let Them Eat Chaos.
    • Fiction Records.

  • The Mutton Birds

    While You Sleep

  • Pretenders

    Alone

    • BMG Rights Management.

  • The Crystals

    Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town

    • A Christmas Gift For You (Phil Spect.
    • Phil Spector Int.

  • The Beat

    Side To Side (feat. Ranking Roger)

    • DMF Records.

  • Osees

    Ticklish Warrior

  • Tom Waits

    Grapefruit Moon

  • The Moonlandingz

    Black Hanz

    • Transgressive Records.

  • Public Service Broadcasting

    Spitfire

    • Test Card Recordings.

  • Laura Marling

    Soothing

    • Semper Femina.
    • More Alarming Records / Kobalt.

  • Stereo MC鈥檚

    Step It Up

  • Blossoms

    Charlemagne

    • Virgin / EMI Records.

  • The Go鈥怗o鈥檚

    Our Lips Are Sealed

  • The B鈥�52s

    Love Shack

  • Formation

    Powerful People

    • Meno Records.

Broadcast

  • Mon 12 Dec 2016 13:00
    91热爆 Radio 6 Music