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Something Rhymes with Purple

Sony Music

Comedy, Arts, Education

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2021

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Recorded live in front of 1000 Purple People at the Chichester Festival Theatre, in this episode we get our claws into the rich language of the 1920s. From sipping gimlets in speakeasys to getting a shingle to go with our plus fours we skip through a decade that gave so many unique phrases to the English language. No hokum, it really is the bees-knees. There are lots of theatrical anecdotes from Gyles as he’s in a theatre very close to his heart and our lovely audience come up with some very inventive definitions for Susie’s Trio. A Somethin' Else production. To buy SRWP mugs and more head to.... https://kontraband.shop/collections/something-rhymes-with-purple If you would like to sign up to Apple Subs please follow this link https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/something-rhymes-with-purple/id1456772823 and make sure that you are running the most up-to-date IOS on your computer/device otherwise it won’t work. If you would like to see Gyles and Susie LIVE and in person on our Something Rhymes With Purple UK Tour then please go to https://www.tiltedco.com/somethingrhymeswithpurple for tickets and more information. Susie’s Trio: Pettitoes – pig’s trotters served as a delicacy Skimmington – a procession used to make an example of a nagging wife Gasconade – extravagant boasting and strutting Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:02.7	Welcome to something rhymes with purple live from Chichester.
1:12.7	Thank you for joining us. So we're coming to the end of 2021 and we thought we would
1:24.0	go all the way back to 1921 to dig in to the fantastic slang and linguistic creations
1:31.6	of the 1920s. It was, as you will see, I think, a really first-hand time for new words
1:38.0	and phrases. Good. That is still around today.
1:41.2	That is still around today. Well, some of them, of course, won't seem as old to me as they
1:45.3	do to you. Because I am a little bit older than you. I was telling the audience before
1:51.5	we pressed the button that says record for our podcast. I first came to this theatre because
1:56.1	we were giving this live podcast from the Chichester Festival Theatre in Sussex. It was founded
2:01.4	at the beginning of the 1960s by Sir Laurence Olivier. I was a schoolboy nearby and came
2:06.1	to all the early productions here. I realised that 1961 is now 60 years ago. You're going
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