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Something Rhymes with Purple

Sony Music

Comedy, Arts, Education

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Come into the garden Purple People as we take a look at the interesting histories behind the names of the plants blooming in the beds. Find out why basil is royal, why you use more rock celery that you might think, and which common herb is the ‘dew of the sea’. Also in this week’s bouquet are dragons, Spartan lovers and gladiators, plus we find out why the pansy is the thinking person’s flower. We also get through lots of your brilliant emails and we want you to get in touch with your own names for Billy Bakers or Chuggy Pigs… [email protected] A Somethin' Else production. Susie’s trio: Upbigged - built up Hookem-snivy - fakery or deceit Percunctorily - lazily. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Something that's...
0:09.4	Hello and welcome to episode 62 of Something Rhymes with Purple.
0:15.2	With me, Susie Dent and my co-host, Jiles,
0:18.9	Brandrath, Jiles, this is episode 62.
0:21.3	I'm just, of, only just noticed that.
0:23.2	Who's counting? Well, Siddah, you are. Well done, Ruth.
0:25.8	Well done, only just. It's fast and a flash, hasn't it?
0:29.8	It really has.
0:31.0	How are you doing? How's it all going?
0:32.7	How's your week been? How's your novel going?
0:35.0	I mean, in newcomers, we talk about words and language
0:38.4	every week on Something Rhymes with Purple.
0:40.3	And I've written quite a few novels,
0:43.0	some sort of romantic novels,
0:45.5	and more successfully, a series of murder mysteries
0:50.4	set in Victorian England and featuring the real Oscar Wilde
0:54.6	and his real-life friend Arthur Conan Doyle as my detectives.
0:58.3	And everything that happens in the novels
1:00.6	genuinely happened to the individuals involved.
1:02.8	It's like a serial biography of Oscar Wilde,
1:06.1	but I've added the element of murder mystery and they're great fun.
1:09.9	And I was thinking, wouldn't it be wonderful if Susie Dent used
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