Hello and I've been the co-host of Something Rimes with Purple.

My name is Giles Brandreth, and I've been the co-host of this podcast for the past five years

with my friend, colleague, collaborator, in my view the world's leading lexicographer,

it is Susie Dent. How are you today, Susie?

I'm very well, thank you, but I noticed that you used a past tense for I have been and we have some news don't we?

We do have some news.

In fact I was leading up to the fact that we first met a long time ago on a United Kingdom television program called

Countdown. I'm explaining about Countdown to our international listeners who may not

know about it, but it's one of the most popular programs on British television. It's on a channel

called Channel 4. It began more than 40 years ago and in the early years I was a

regular on countdown and that's where I met Susie Dent because she has

presided for how many years now? 33 years this is for 33 years a third of a

century she has been sitting in what's known as Dictionary Corner on this show, which is a

celebration of words and numbers. And she is brilliant on that and has as her sidekick lots of interesting people and for a while I was one of those

So that's when I at first met Susie. She was very young and very beautiful at the time and now sadly

She's not so young, but she's still quite as beautiful. But the

program's called countdown and the point is I thought we should begin today's program

by telling everybody that this is a countdown to the last edition of

something rhymes in purple in its present incarnation. So we are saying

goodbye to this particular podcast in four episodes time.

We are, which makes us both sad and excited, I think.

So a little bit bit bit bit bit bit, because there will be new things to come and of course we will keep the wonderful and I genuinely mean wonderful purple people community posted as to where we are going next and what we're going to do.

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