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Lexicologist and etymologist Susie Dent

Mark and Stuart are joined by lexicologist and etymologist Susie Dent, resident word expert in Dictionary Corner on TV's Countdown and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown.

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 minuntes 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, 麻豆社 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 answer some of your word-based queries.

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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Thu 23 Mar 2017 13:00
麻豆社 Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • Oasis

    Acquiesce

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Big Brother.

  • Marika Hackman

    Boyfriend

    • Boyfriend.
    • AMF Records.

  • Erma Franklin

    Piece Of My Heart

    • VIRGIN.

  • Small Faces

    Up The Wooden Hills To Bedfordshire

    • Real Life Permanent Dreams: A Cornucopia of British Psychedelia 1965-1970.
    • Castle Music.
    • 023.

  • Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever

    French Press

    • Sub Pop.

  • Matt Berry

    Lord Above

  • XTC

    Statue of Liberty

    • Virgin.

  • Mylo

    In My Arms

    • Breastfed Records.

  • The Mutton Birds

    She's Been Talking

  • 补濒迟鈥怞

    3WW

    • Relaxer.
    • Infectious Music.
    • 1.

  • Zervas & Pepper

    Hotel Bible

  • Grandmaster Flash

    Adventures Of Flash On The Wheels Of Steel

  • Depeche Mode

    Poorman

    • Columbia Records.

  • UNKLE & Ian Brown

    Reign

    • GU.

  • The Cure

    Let's Go To Bed

  • Car Seat Headrest

    Unforgiving Girl (She's Not An)

    • Matador.

  • Eddie Floyd

    Things Get Better

    • Rhino.

  • Belle and Sebastian

    The Blues Are Still Blue

    • ROUGH TRADE RECORDS.

  • Fleet Foxes

    Third of May / 艑daigahara

    • Nonesuch Records.

  • Real Estate

    Darling

    • Domino.

  • The Triffids

    Wide Open Road

    • BORN SANDY DEVOTIONAL.
    • Domino.

  • A Tribe Called Quest

    Dis Generation

    • We Got It From Here...Thank You 4 Your Service.
    • Epic.

  • Jarvis Cocker & Chilly Gonzales

    Salome

  • The Cardigans

    Sick and Tired

    • Emmerdale.
    • Universal Music Ireland Ltd.

  • The Lemon Twigs

    Baby Baby

    • 4AD.

  • Har Mar Superstar

    Prisoner

    • Cult Records.

  • M83

    Go!

    • Na茂ve Records.

  • The Jesus and Mary Chain

    Always Sad

    • ADA/WARNER MUSIC.

  • The O鈥橨ays

    For The Love Of Money

  • Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

    Spread Your Love

  • Spizzenergi

    Where's Captain Kirk?

  • Thundercat

    Show You The Way (feat. Michael McDonald & Kenny Loggins)

    • Drunk.
    • Brainfeeder.

  • SLUG

    Cockeyed Rabbit Wrapped In Plastic

    • Memphis Industries.

  • 搁耻苍鈥怐.惭.颁. & Aerosmith

    Walk This Way

    • Columbia.

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  • Thu 23 Mar 2017 13:00
    麻豆社 Radio 6 Music