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My Word! (Radio)
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My Word! is a radio Panel Game that was broadcast on BBC Radio from 1956 to 1988. The chair for the first series was John Arlott; from the second series he was replaced by Jack Longland, who remained in the chair for most of the run. The team captains for the entire run were comedy writers Frank Muir and Denis Norden, with various others filling out the panel over the years.The first four rounds of each episode were a regular quiz with challenges based on vocabulary as wordplay, such as defining obscure words, identifying the origins of famous sayings, and distinguishing between words with similar and often-confused meanings.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The feature of the programme was the final round. After the first round, Muir and Norden were each given a famous phrase or saying. In the final round, the derivation of each phrase was given, and then Muir and Norden would each tell fanciful stories purporting to be the true derivation, usually by way of a pun. As the series progressed, the explanations got longer and more convoluted, and the requirement that the story be an origin was relaxed, so the stories would more often be anecdotes from, supposedly, the raconteur's own life.A television incarnation aired for one series in 1960. A spin-off, My Music, aired on BBC Radio from 1967 to 1993. The series was an acknowledged influence on many later panel game shows, including the American Says You!. | |
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Acting Unnatural: One of Frank Muir's stories, involving a Naked People Trapped Outside scenario, includes the amazing line: "I crouched down by the side of the road and made a noise like a small hawthorn bush." | |
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Blitz Evacuees: In one of Denis Norden's stories, he reminisced about his own time as an evacuee (in 1935 for some reason), with the daughter of the couple he was billeted with teaching him the ways of the country. Although just how clueless the young Norden was about nature was taken Up to Eleven: | |
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Bothering by the Book: One of Denis Norden's stories explained how he worked his exit from the army with pedantically exact interpretations of his superior officers' orders, often based on his Drill Sergeant Nasty's pronunciation. For example, on being told to "quick march" (which came out as "Quick Hutch!"), he went AWOL and hid in a cupboard for several weeks, his argument being that "hutch" is a verb meaning "to put away in, or as in, a hutch". | |
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