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Put Downs and Insults

Balderdash and Piffle Series 2

Victoria Coren, John Sergeant, Denis Healey, Ian McMillan and Mike Harding enlighten us on words such as wazzock, prat and plonker as put downs and insults.

Victoria Coren presents the series about words, inviting the public to make a vital contribution to the Oxford English Dictionary.

In this edition on put downs and insults, Victoria tries to find the earliest evidence for prats and plonkers. John Sergeant looks at unparliamentary language. And poet Ian McMillan and comedian Mike Harding battle over whether Yorkshire or Lancashire can claim to have originated the word 'wazzock'.

50 minutes

Last on

Tue 26 Jun 2007 00:20
大象传媒 Two except East, Northern Ireland & Yorkshire

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Credits

Presenter Victoria Coren
Participant Ian McMillan
Participant John Sergeant
Participant Mike Harding

Broadcasts

  • Fri 22 Jun 2007 22:00
    大象传媒 Two England, Northern Ireland (Analogue), Northern Ireland & Wales (Analogue) only
  • Tue 26 Jun 2007 00:05
    大象传媒 Two Northern Ireland (Analogue) & Northern Ireland only
  • Tue 26 Jun 2007 00:20
    大象传媒 Two except East, Northern Ireland & Yorkshire