Away With Words
Presenter Neil Innes has fun exploring the origins of well-known words; and phrases in AWAY WITH WORDS. The 13-part series follows him on his travels from Yarmouth to Ely, Southend, Newmarket, Luton, Southwold, Duxford, Ipswich, Norwich, Corby, Bletchley, Cambridge and Colchester. But it won't be a map so much as a dictionary that he will have as a guide as he looks for the unlikely sources of all sorts of everyday names and sayings, and talks to some of the people who can throw light on them.
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Seasons
- Ep 1
1.Episode 1
15-09-1998Programme one sees him joining the circus at Great Yarmouth's Hippodrome, where he makes the acquaintance of a friendly pachyderm (elephant), and finds out why we refer to chaotic...
- Ep 2
2.Episode 2
22-09-1998AWAY WITH WORDS, presenter Neil Innes falls foul of the Roundheads (while dressed as a Cavalier), gets nosy about Cromwell, tries to get ahead with a wig, and discovers a taste for...
- Ep 3
3.Episode 3
29-09-1998Neil Innes has fun beside the seaside, exploring words and sayings which take him from cockle-fishing to Cockney rhyming slang. Southend, and neighbouring Leigh-on-Sea in Essex, pr...
- Ep 4
4.Episode 4
06-10-1998AWAY WITH WORDS presenter Neil Innes is off to Newmarket to dabble in the sport of kings and find out what the richness of the language owes to the riches of the racetrack. A surpr...
- Ep 5
5.Episode 5
13-10-1998Neil Innes gets to grips with more of the English language in a programme which ranges from real tennis to Romeo and Juliet. Juliet's big poser 'What's in a name?" provides the per...
- Ep 6
6.Episode 6
25-10-1998He doesn't eat his hat, but presenter Neil Innes does tuck into a curry when AWAY WITH WORDS takes a closer look at what the English language owes to foreign cultures and far-away...
- Ep 7
7.Episode 7
01-11-1998It is all grist to the mill for presenter Neil Innes, when he manages to coinbine beer-tasting, golf, music and Morris dancing in this week's AWAY WITH WORDS. Neil's latest fun que...
- Ep 8
8.Episode 8
08-11-1998More from Neil Innes as he discovers the origins on common words and phrases. This episode is based around the beach and hot air balloons.
- Ep 9
9.Episode 9
15-11-1998AWAY WITH WORDS presenter Neil Innes takes to the skies as he follows the English language to America - and back - in this week's edition of the fun programme about words and their...
- Ep 10
10.Episode 10
22-11-1998Smuggling, seafaring and superstition are all on the agenda when AWAY WITH WORDS presenter Neil Innes finds himself trawling for the origins of more everyday phrases - and lands in...
- Ep 11
11.Episode 11
29-11-1998More from Neil Innes on words and their origins. In this episode Neil goes to the Physio.
- Ep 12
12.Episode 12
13-12-1998AWAY WITH WORDS gets into dictionaries, codes and computers as presenter Neil Innes boldly goes into cyberspace in pursuit of the development of the English language. The fun serie...
- Ep 13
13.Episode 13
20-12-1998Enlisting the unlikely help of a large St Bernard dog, a group of Roman soldiers, and some Anglo Saxon villagers, presenter Neil Innes sets out to answer the question. "Who are the...
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