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7:05 This particular witticism was more likely to have been said by Dorothy Parker.

20:12 Good question. The eff is that mockery of English he speaks? Is that supposed to be funny?

2:16:18 Famous British education strikes again. First the shark is a mammal 🤣 and then mammals are not animals 🤦‍♀

Parsons once had a proper job, building industrial pumps, long before he met these people.

1:31:55 Ridiculous, Parsons. Anyway, challenges on any function words shouldn't be allowed.

Wonderful

Lol, as soon Graham Norton started riffing on upstaging people as a rib to Pam, I wondered if he'd make the mistake of repeating 'upstage' and he did at around 1:52:26-ish ! But sadly no one challenged him on that one :D

My Word, My Music and Call My Bluff were considered highly educational by my parents - I was allowed to stay up past my normal bedtime to listen to them😊

How I miss the wit.

I think it was WETA in Washington DC that broadcast MY WORD and MY MUSIC at noon every Sunday and long time ago.

I can remember listening to this on NPR In the Eighties. I never figured out the schedule so it was quite haphazard.

The Sheila Hancock Show sounds like such a great idea. 🎉 [Sheila as the Ladette, Paul Merton as ‘Swift Talk’ Sidney, Sue Perkins as Griselda Pugh, (Hattie Jacques) Stephen Fry as Bill ‘-y the Kid’ Kerr, & Sandi Toksvig as Moira Lister and Andreé Melly]

Beautiful

Mentioned/Mention. Not repetition! 😂

Thanks as always. Fabulous to hear Sheila Hancock again

1:39:47 i wonder why? surely not just stop oil protests, i dont think they were around in 2015 lol

yay, more tennant! :)

34:59 haha Yes indeed we do call it, appropriately, d-AH-lia. Yes, I know you think we ruined the English language, but here is an example of no we did not. ...omg glad-EYE-olus. And you gonna tell us WE ruined English. Methinks you mispronounce too much. haha.

1:00:00 Baroness Orczy wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel.

@hepsycamellia5459 3 months ago thanks very much... brill!

6:40 Again. It's Greek! The plural is "metropolises". Famous British education 🙄

Clement fraud didnt he fiddle with little girls

Interesting to hear in stereo

1:38:43, another prime example of Nick essentially being a human parrot. Wouldnt be the only time Nick uses Kenneth's material and try to ride his comedic coattails. Its no wonder he doesnt object or penalize people for repeating things other people have said, despite it being thoroughly irritating, in poor taste, and highlight just how unoriginal it is to steal other peoples material and pass it off as their own. With Nick being the high chief plagiarist

58:38

didn’t catch this one when it was released because i was celebrating my birthday but what a gift! i had no idea they got tennant on haha that’s brilliant ❤ thank you for the upload!

Thank you so much for these Spartakist Mk2. Along with My Word (and ISIHAC) this is one of my favourites back in the day. Some of the better offerings the BBC put out in my opinion. Do please keep them coming! I’m surprised BBC Radio 4Xtra doesn’t broadcast them on the Sounds app but strangely they never do. Best wishes and thanks again.

Hooray!!!!!

1:34:52, 'stop being so pompous in your decisions/opinions!' Nicholas, by you're own admission a person can be dreary, pompous or whatever they like, you do not hold the monopoly on being pompous and have no right to tell other people whether they can be pompous or not.

During the subject of A Fool, we see the one and probably only time Nicholas doesn't fall into his usual 'I would've given it against you anyway' by leaving the subject with Clement after the way he's been rude to Nick, to showcase his fairness. Cuz rarely does an episode pass without Nick trying, and usually failing, to prove how fair he is on the show.

Super fun radio!

I wish there were more episodes with both Derek Nimmo and Gyles Brandreth🔥

58:28 No, it's not, you pompous fооl. It's Greek, not Latin.

Marco Polo was born in Venice, not Croatia, and met Kublai Khan, not Genghis.

So civilised.

Something else to take.note of, any time a historical subject is given to Kenneth, nine times out of ten he starts off well on the subject but clearly deviates by bringing in things that aren't relevant to the main subject, like in the case of Cagliostro. He starts off well by focusing on him but then starts veering off and talking about Marie Antoinette. It did seem like Kenneth more often than not was essentially allowed to get away with all kinds of stuff simply by virtue of the fact that he's Kenneth Williams.

1:51:32, I can't help but feel that what Nicholas just said was a lie, because the fact that you can normally pick up what people are saying cuz of the microphones, and you don't actually hear Sheila say that she's willing to fight Kenneth, it's possible that Kenneth did stand up to challenge Sheila to fight and all Sheila did was stand up which is what caused Kenneth to sit back down. Honestly, whenever Nicholas has to do this play by play 'I just explain to the listeners' stuff it varies between being funny and being tedious. Cuz any time he has to explain what happened, it's rather like someone that has to explain a joke to someone that may or may not get it, it spoils the humor.

Suki Webster is Paul Merton’s wife.

1:16:26 Yank here. I don't know Cricket well enough to have known 'google' had a meaning before the internet age. What a fun surprise! ...haha Of course, I've listened to it three times and I still don't understand what an 'off break ball' is, or 'leg break', etc. I'll look into that, which is fine because I'm into sports.

I used to hear this very occasionally on NPR in the 1980’s. I never figured out if it had a regular time slot. Thanks

According to his facial expressions, Steve seems to be forever bewildered by the rules.

I completely endorse the previous comment. For so many years I've been wanting to hear these episodes. Wonderful to hear the 900th episode!

Thank you so much for bringing this to us I used to listen to it on the radio but they stopped it. Now I can listen to it whenever I want. You're brought me so much joy top youtuber 👍👏👍👏

Joan Turner's episode is also amazing, Joan is utterly rubbish at the game but she was definitely enjoying herself throughout.

Nice to see this continuing. Hope you are not missing too many episodes.

Jan Ravens episode. It is absolutely appalling how rotten she is treated in this episode by Kenneth and Derek.

Thank you, Spartakist. Another series of gems from the times when the BBC produced entertainment of quality that educated as well.

1:26:21. You were not passports involved... this wouldn't be the first time Nick made a dogs dinner of the English language. It's always hilarious when it happens especially when the other panelists pull Nick up for doing it and essentially tear him down from his pompous high horse.

To be fair Frank does know an awful lot about George Formby [and the commonwealth was first described by Lord Rosebery in 1900s before 1931]

You appear to be missing 1974-05-10 - Radio 4 Serial - My Music - s09eSP - Honour of the Centenary of the Birth of Lillian Baylis at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London