Guttersnipes

Something Rhymes with Purple

Sony Music

Comedy, Arts, Education

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Roll up, roll up! Read all about it! This week we're stalking the pavements of Fleet Street to get the scoop on the lingo from the world of journalism. We'll be finding out what links an urchin to a hedgehog, why you'd rather your basement wasn't spiked, and why a tabloid might be just the pill that you need. It's all part of the furniture. Also, through the smoke of the newsroom, Susie types up her weekly trio of words and Gyles delivers a fantastic poem about the joys of reclining... If you want to get in touch, please do, we're at [email protected]. A Somethin' Else production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Jay Rayner, host of the OutToLunch podcast.
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0:34.7	Something that's...
0:39.7	Hello and welcome to another episode of Sumbling Rhymes with Purple.
0:48.7	The podcast by people with a passion for words, everything to do with words,
0:52.7	four people with a passion for words.
0:54.7	And I'm Susie Dent and with me looking at me from a Zoom camera is Charles Brando, hi, Charles.
1:00.7	It's good to be with you, Susie.
1:02.7	And it's exciting to be with you with this new medium.
1:05.7	And I've been thinking this week how the world has so totally changed since I began, for example, as a journalist.
1:12.7	I began as a journalist 50 years ago.
1:15.7	And in those days when you wrote an article, I'm thinking of that because today I wrote an article
1:20.7	and I just did it on my computer, I pressed a button and it was sent immediately to the newspaper
1:25.7	and it will appear tomorrow.
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