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Stuart Maconie presents the show solo. With lexicologist and etymologist Susie Dent

Stuart Maconie presents solo, playing records and talking in between. With lexicologist and etymologist Susie Dent.

Stuart Maconie presents the show solo. With lexicologist and etymologist Susie Dent

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 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, 大象传媒 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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Mon 24 Jul 2017 13:00
大象传媒 Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • St. Vincent

    New York

    • Loma Vista/Caroline International.

  • Afrikan Boy

    Hit Em Up

    • Yam records.

  • The Family Stand & Jazzy B

    Ghetto Heaven

    • Chain.
    • Atlantic Records.
    • 1.

  • The Duke Spirit

    Magenta

    • Ex Voto Records.

  • The Jam

    Absolute Beginners

    • Polydor.

  • inc. no world

    Living

  • Tom Tom Club

    Wordy Rappinghood

    • Single.
    • Island.

  • Waxahatchee

    Never Been Wrong

    • Merge Records.

  • AlunaGeorge

    Attracting Flies

    • Island Records.

  • The Beach Boys

    Hang on to Your Ego

    • Capitol.

  • Fleet Foxes

    He Doesn't Know Why

    • CD SINGLE.
    • BELLA UNION.
    • 1.

  • Future Islands

    Shadows (feat. Debbie Harry)

    • 4AD.

  • Gene Chandler

    There Was A Time

  • Stevie Wonder

    Village Ghetto Land

  • DJ Shadow

    Horror Show (feat. Danny Brown)

    • Mass Appeal Records.

  • Metronomy

    Everything Goes My Way

    • Because Music.

  • Saint Etienne

    Dive

    • Heavenly Records.

  • The Rolling Stones

    Paint It Black

    • ABKCO.

  • Everything Everything

    Can't Do

    • RCA.

  • Max茂mo Park

    What Equals Love

    • Cooking Vinyl.

  • Blackalicious

    On Fire Tonight

    • QUANNUM PROJECTS.

  • Broken Social Scene

    Vanity Pail Kids

    • City Slang.

  • Childhood

    Too Old For My Tears To Lie To Me

  • The Icicle Works

    Starry Blue Eyed Wonder

  • Jane Weaver

    Did You See Butterflies?

    • Fire Records.

  • Strawberry Alarm Clock

    Incense And Peppermints

  • Malcolm X

    No Sell Out

  • The Flaming Lips

    Fight Test

    • Warner Bros.

  • 补濒迟鈥怞

    Deadcrush

    • Infectious Music.

  • The Fall

    Totally Wired

  • This Is the Kit

    Magic Spell

  • Parliament

    P-Funk

  • Steel Pulse

    Prodigal Son

    • Mango.

  • Beth Ditto

    Oo La La

    • Virgin / EMI.

Broadcast

  • Mon 24 Jul 2017 13:00
    大象传媒 Radio 6 Music