Word Wrangling with Terry Victor

Let's go time travelling with the likes of David Bowie, H.G, Wells and Charles Dickens. The Doctor is on board, so is King Solomon, and together we will try to unknot British Summer Time as we dance around the Doomsday Clock.

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Word Wrangling goes to a rap battle with Stephen Sondheim and Punch and Judy.

There's something familiar, something peculiar, something for everyone who needs a laugh.

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Uncovering and wrangling one little word's saucerful of secrets. In the company of Jane Austen, William Shakespeare and Pink Floyd (which one's Pink?), among other notables.

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 As the word  Blackmail decided not to pay to keep its secret secret ... now it will pay the price 
 in graphic lexical detail. 

Everyone has a secret. How much is yours worth to you?

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A chase through some dictionaries in search of a reliable definition for a word that never quite means what some people want you to think it does. With a cast of poets, playwrights and novelists to illustrate this podcast and some politicians standing by to spin it, welcome to a sovereign edition of Word Wrangling.

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A fine collection of words which are words about words have been gathered together for your wordy pleasuring.  It's a miscellany of rhetorical devices and the kind of flourishes that give figures of speech a good name.

Among other things Jane Austen does zeugma in the company of Flanders and Swann, Brutus uses synecdoche, and we kick some adverbs around in the company of Tom Swift. Abba falls prey to mondegreenery. And Humpty Dumpty is on cracking form. 

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It's one of those things.  We think we know what civilisation is, and what's involved... are we all the same page of the dictionary?

This short sharp episode dips into Freud, fantasy and forgotten history.

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The words we didn't need until we did for something we already had...

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This week's edition of Word Wrangling has more than enough words to go around – words aplenty – and not an empty word is to be heard. Enjoy!

 

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This week's episode is at Alert Level Orange.

Wrangling one everyday word laden with history and symbolism. This is a journey of discovery in the company of Shakespeare's Bottom, Anthony Burgess, Jeanette Winterson, Garfield the Cat and a French monk in Algeria.

Join us as we travel through Africa, China and South Asia; France, Greece , Spain, the Netherlands and Ukraine; via California and Australia, with a pause for a diversion on the Glasgow Subway.

Word Wrangling is an independent production. We are always on the lookout for new ways with words. If you have any thoughts please get in touch.