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Something Rhymes with Purple

Sony Music

Comedy, Arts, Education

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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In this week's gloriumptious episode, Susie & Gyles delve into the whimsical and wondrous world of Roald Dahl. Join us as we explore the enchanting etymology behind some of Dahl's most iconic words, and discover the linguistic magic that brings his tales to life. We love hearing from you, find us @SomethingRhymes on Twitter and Facebook, @SomethingRhymesWith on Instagram or you can email us on our NEW email address here: [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: Stumblebum: a punch-drunk, clumsy, or inept boxer. Sleepify: to make sleepy. Vidulous: somewhat greedy. Gyles' poem this week was 'The Pig' by Roald Dahl. In England once there lived a big A wonderfully clever pig. To everybody it was plain That Piggy had a massive brain. He worked out sums inside his head, There was no book he hadn't read. He knew what made an airplane fly, He knew how engines worked and why. He knew all this, but in the end One question drove him round the bend: He simply couldn't puzzle out What LIFE was really all about. What was the reason for his birth? Why was he placed upon this earth? His giant brain went round and round. Alas, no answer could be found. Till suddenly one wondrous night. All in a flash he saw the light. He jumped up like a ballet dancer And yelled, "By gum, I've got the answer!" "They want my bacon slice by slice "To sell at a tremendous price! "They want my tender juicy chops "To put in all the butcher's shops! "They want my pork to make a roast "And that's the part'll cost the most! "They want my sausages in strings! "They even want my chitterlings! "The butcher's shop! The carving knife! "That is the reason for my life!" Such thoughts as these are not designed To give a pig great peace of mind. Next morning, in comes Farmer Bland, A pail of pigswill in his hand, And piggy with a mighty roar, Bashes the farmer to the floor… Now comes the rather grizzly bit So let's not make too much of it, Except that you must understand That Piggy did eat Farmer Bland, He ate him up from head to toe, Chewing the pieces nice and slow. It took an hour to reach the feet, Because there was so much to eat, And when he finished, Pig, of course, Felt absolutely no remorse. Slowly he scratched his brainy head And with a little smile he said, "I had a fairly powerful hunch "That he might have me for his lunch. "And so, because I feared the worst, "I thought I'd better eat him first." 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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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to something rhymes with purple. If you're listening to this, you probably
0:07.8	already know this is a podcast about words and language. I apologise for noises off,
0:12.8	but any listeners with acute hearing, they will hear, bow, my cat, meowing for some food,
0:18.5	even though she's got lots out there, treats I think she's on the prowl for. But in some ways,
0:23.6	I think my cat might be a nice segue into the subject for today. I don't know if he
0:30.0	actually had any cats, but he did to create this sort of strange and rather fantastical world.
0:36.2	And it is none other than, well done, we're going to talk about well done today, aren't we?
0:39.5	A very interesting figure, well done. And I had, I must have told you this before,
0:45.6	I met him on a number of occasions because in the 1970s and 1980s, I wrote quite a number of
0:53.2	children's books myself, published by his publisher Puffin Books, Part of Penguin Books,
0:59.1	and we shared an editor, a brilliant editor called Elizabeth Attenborough, who I think later
1:04.3	became a trustee of the Royal Dowl Foundation. It was one of the team who looked after his estate
1:09.7	after his death. And I think she knew him well and found him easy. I didn't know him well and
1:15.7	didn't find him easy. We once travelled to the west country on a train journey, it seemed to me
1:21.3	an endless train journey. I was young in my 20s, he was old and he seemed to me infinitely old,
1:27.5	he was probably only in his 60s. And there was something a little bit menacing about him.
1:32.5	He was tall, he looked a bit odd. I don't think I chatted away stupidly, I was too old to do so.
1:39.3	But we made conversation and I felt that everything I said, I got slightly wrong. He was able to
1:46.5	disconsert me. I think, well, he's become a very controversial figure, hasn't he?
1:51.0	Explain a bit more about that. Why is he so controversial? Is this his private life and some of his
1:56.2	views expressed in letters and publications rather than his famous children's stories?
2:01.1	I think so. I think, as he says, to do with his private life, because I think his family
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