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Balderdash and Piffle is back for a new seiries :-)
HISTORY DOCUMENTARY: Balderdash and Piffle
On: BBC 2 North (102)
Date: Friday 11th May 2007 (starting this evening) Time: 22:00 to 22:30 (30 minutes long)
One Sandwich Short of a Picnic.
Victoria Coren presents this series about words, inviting the public to make a vital contribution to the Oxford English Dictionary. This programme looks at the many words we use for madness. Former psychiatric nurse Jo Brand returns to her old hospital, St Mary's Bethlem (Bedlam), to demonstrate how today's worst insults - moron, idiot, imbecile and cretin - were once official medical diagnoses. But who, for example, first went 'bananas' and why?
(Stereo, New Series, Widescreen, Subtitles)
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On: BBC 2 North (102)
Date: Friday 11th May 2007 (starting this evening) Time: 22:00 to 22:30 (30 minutes long)
One Sandwich Short of a Picnic.
Victoria Coren presents this series about words, inviting the public to make a vital contribution to the Oxford English Dictionary. This programme looks at the many words we use for madness. Former psychiatric nurse Jo Brand returns to her old hospital, St Mary's Bethlem (Bedlam), to demonstrate how today's worst insults - moron, idiot, imbecile and cretin - were once official medical diagnoses. But who, for example, first went 'bananas' and why?
(Stereo, New Series, Widescreen, Subtitles)
~~ Marked By: 'Favourite: Balderdash and Piffle' and 'Documentary' markers ~~ Excerpt taken from DigiGuide - the world's best TV guide available from http://www.getdigiguide.com/?p=1&r=33388
Copyright (c) GipsyMedia Limited.
Dave Fawthrop 165 Free SF ebooks.
165 Sci Fi books on CDROM, from Project Gutenberghttp://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main Page Completely Free to any address in the UK. Contact me on the above email address.
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[nq:1]HISTORY DOCUMENTARY: Balderdash and Piffle On: BBC 2 North (102) Date: Friday 11th May 2007 (starting this evening) Time: 22:00 to 22:30 (30 minutes long)[/nq] Long time no see, Dave. Thanks for the tip; I almost never turn my TV on, so I'd have missed it. Is this where I can gloat about being able to watch the Beeb without paying a licence fee?
- [nq:1]HISTORY DOCUMENTARY: Balderdash and Piffle On: BBC 2 North (102) Date: Friday 11th May 2007 (starting this evening) Time: 22:00 to 22:30 (30 minutes long)[/nq] Long time no see, Dave.
- Thanks for the tip; I almost never turn my TV on, so I'd have missed it.
- Is this where I can gloat about being able to watch the Beeb without paying a licence fee?
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[nq:1]HISTORY DOCUMENTARY: Balderdash and Piffle On: BBC 2 North (102) Date: Friday 11th May 2007 (starting this evening) Time: 22:00 to 22:30 (30 minutes long)[/nq]
Long time no see, Dave. Thanks for the tip; I almost never turn my TV on, so I'd have missed it.
Is this where I can gloat about being able to watch the Beeb without paying a licence fee?
Long time no see, Dave. Thanks for the tip; I almost never turn my TV on, so I'd have missed it.
Is this where I can gloat about being able to watch the Beeb without paying a licence fee?
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They can watch satellite UK TV way down in Spain.
Dave Fawthrop 165 Free SF ebooks.
165 Sci Fi books on CDROM, from Project Gutenberghttp://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main Page Completely Free to any address in the UK. Contact me on the above email address.
Dave Fawthrop 165 Free SF ebooks.
165 Sci Fi books on CDROM, from Project Gutenberghttp://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main Page Completely Free to any address in the UK. Contact me on the above email address.
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[nq:1]HISTORY DOCUMENTARY: Balderdash and Piffle On: BBC 2 North (102) Date: Friday 11th May 2007 (starting this evening) Time: 22:00 to 22:30 (30 minutes long)[/nq]
I had not seen any previous examples of this programme so I made a point of watching it. The title was apt.
The idea might have worked quite well on the radio and there was almost enough material for a 15 minute slot on first
I had not seen any previous examples of this programme so I made a point of watching it. The title was apt.
The idea might have worked quite well on the radio and there was almost enough material for a 15 minute slot on first
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[nq:2]HISTORY DOCUMENTARY: Balderdash and Piffle On: BBC 2 North (102) Date: Friday 11th May 2007 (starting this evening) Time: 22:00 to 22:30 (30 minutes long)[/nq]
[nq:1]I had not seen any previous examples of this programme so I made a point of watching it. The title ... quite well on the radio and there was almost enough material for a 15 minute slot on first usage dates.[/nq]
A not so
[nq:1]I had not seen any previous examples of this programme so I made a point of watching it. The title ... quite well on the radio and there was almost enough material for a 15 minute slot on first usage dates.[/nq]
A not so
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[nq:1]Josephine Baker was the one dancing in bananas while Jo Brand contented herself with being seated and wearing nuts on her head.[/nq]
I hadn't thought of that role reversal. I hope I can get the image out of my mind PDQ.
Peter Duncanson, UK
(in uk.culture.language.english)
I hadn't thought of that role reversal. I hope I can get the image out of my mind PDQ.
Peter Duncanson, UK
(in uk.culture.language.english)
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[nq:1]on,[/nq]
Sure, but the Beeb is standard, in NL, no matter whom you subscribe to.
ITV has to be paid for, but, since I'm not a Corrie-watcher, I don't bother.
Sure, but the Beeb is standard, in NL, no matter whom you subscribe to.
ITV has to be paid for, but, since I'm not a Corrie-watcher, I don't bother.
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Not any more ITV went Free to Air last year, so you can get both BBC and ITV using a generic satellite box. Only Ch4 and Ch5 are still encrypted on Astra. If you give a real UK address you can get a freesatfromsky card for GBP20 which should last a few years and you can get Ch4 and Ch5 plus $ky3, with a Sky box. see sig.
Dave Fawthrop Sat Ch4, Ch5, only GBP20
Dave Fawthrop Sat Ch4, Ch5, only GBP20
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