Welcome to another episode of something rhymes with purple. My name is Charles Brandruth

and this week I find myself in Edinburgh. My co-host is Susie Dent, in my view the world's

leading lexicographer and she is normally based in Oxford. Where are you in fact today Susie?

Yes, I wish I could tell you somewhere different because whenever you ask me this I'm still in

the same place but it is one of my favorite places I have to say I'm surrounded by

my dictionaries, my books. I still have you can probably see this, Charles, but on my sofa behind

me I still have a birthday balloon that is almost a year old and it's still nestling there on the

sofa as a little bit of pink decoration. So that's where I am but I know you are somewhere far more

exciting. Well it's not very exciting the room I'm in. I'm in a flat in a part of Edinburgh called

quarter mile which was where the I think the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary used to be and then about

20 years ago they began developing this area and it's a wonderful mixture of modern buildings created

I think by the Richard Rogers Partnership and old buildings, Victorian buildings and the combination

of ancient and modern works beautifully well and the reason I'm here and I'm not surrounded by

balloons but I am surrounded by flowers because I've been given so many wonderful bunches of flowers

while I've been here. People throwing them onto the stage. Well come onto that because they have

literally I've had presence at every single performance so far I'm here in Edinburgh at the Edinburgh

Festival Fringe and I'm performing in a show every day until four o'clock it's ending quite soon

and in fact probably by the time this goes out the festival Fringe will be over but there's always

next year and I'm taking my show on tour but Edinburgh is a city in August transformed. After the

Second World War the good people of Edinburgh had an idea let's try the war is over let's try and

revive the culture, the arts, the heritage of Edinburgh and they created this big international

festival in 1947 with huge companies from around the world coming to Edinburgh to perform

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