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One Sandwich Short of a Picnic

Balderdash and Piffle Series 2

Victoria Coren presents this series about words. Investigating the words we use for madness, former nurse Jo Brand returns to her old hospital.

Victoria Coren presents this series about words, inviting the public to make a vital contribution to the Oxford English Dictionary. This programme looks at the many words we use for madness. Former psychiatric nurse Jo Brand returns to her old hospital, St Mary's Bethlem (Bedlam), to demonstrate how today's worst insults 鈥� moron, idiot, imbecile and cretin - were once official medical diagnoses. But who, for example, first went 'bananas' and why?

50 minutes

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Mon 14 May 2007 23:20
大象传媒 Two except East & Yorkshire

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Credits

Presenter Victoria Coren
Participant Jo Brand

Broadcasts

  • Fri 11 May 2007 22:00
    大象传媒 Two Scotland, Northern Ireland (Analogue) & Northern Ireland only
  • Mon 14 May 2007 23:20
    大象传媒 Two except East & Yorkshire