Let There Be Light

Something Rhymes with Purple

Sony Music

Comedy, Arts, Education

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s dazzling episode, Susie and Gyles illuminate the fascinating etymological roots of everything to do with natural light phenomena. So, join us as we shine the spotlight on rainbows to supernovas! We love hearing from you, find us @SomethingRhymes on Twitter and Facebook, @SomethingRhymesWith on Instagram or you can email us on: [email protected] Want even more purple, people? Join the Purple Plus Club by clicking the banner in Apple podcasts or head to purpleplusclub.com to listen on other platforms' Don’t forget that you can join us in person at our upcoming tour, tap the link to find tickets: www.somethingrhymeswithpurple.com Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week: Poindexter: A boringly studious and socially inept person. Skeuomorph: Something designed to look as though it does the job it is supposed to do. Paralipsis: The device of giving emphasis by professing to say little or nothing of a subject, as in not to mention their unpaid debts of several millions. Gyles' poem this week: Somewhere Over The Rainbow by Yip Harburg and Harold Arlen When all the world is a hopeless jumble And the raindrops tumble all around, Heaven opens a magic lane. When all the clouds darken up the skyway There's a rainbow highway to be found, Leading from your window pane To a place behind the sun, Just a step beyond the rain. Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high, There's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby. Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true. Someday I'll wish upon a star and wake up where the clouds are far behind me. Where troubles melt like lemon drops away above the chimney tops, That's where you'll find me. Somewhere over the rainbow, bluebirds fly. Birds fly over the rainbow; why, then, oh why can't I? Someday I'll wish upon a star and wake up where the clouds are far behind me. Where troubles melt like lemon drops away above the chimney tops, That's where you'll find me. Somewhere over the rainbow, bluebirds fly. Birds fly over the rainbow; why, then, oh why can't I? If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, Why, oh why can't I? A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts. To bring your brand to life in this podcast, email [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:58.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of something rhymes with purple.
1:07.0	We're really glad that you're there and we're happy to be here.
1:11.0	I say we're here when back to places at the same time.
1:14.0	My name is Giles Brandruth and I am speaking to you from London, England.
1:19.0	And my colleague and friend and fellow pod person is the lovely Susie Dent.
1:25.0	Who, where are you this week Susie?
1:27.0	I wish you didn't ask me this, because you asked me this a week and I'm never anywhere different.
1:31.0	I am in Oxford and I am longing to be somewhere else.
1:36.0	And in fact, our topic for today, which is natural light phenomena,
1:40.0	includes mention of something that I have long to see all my life.
1:45.0	And that actually your friend Joanna Lumbly did a whole program on because she too had longed to see these,
1:51.0	I think, for many, many years and that's the Northern Lights.
1:54.0	And of course she, because she's a natural enthusiast, went over the moon about them.
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