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Put Downs and Insults

Balderdash and PiffleSeries 2

Victoria Coren, John Sergeant, Denis Healey, Ian McMillan and Mike Harding enlighten us on words such as wazzock, prat and plonker as put downs and insults.

Victoria Coren presents the series about words, inviting the public to make a vital contribution to the Oxford English Dictionary.

In this edition on put downs and insults, Victoria tries to find the earliest evidence for prats and plonkers. John Sergeant looks at unparliamentary language. And poet Ian McMillan and comedian Mike Harding battle over whether Yorkshire or Lancashire can claim to have originated the word 'wazzock'.

50 minutes

Last on

Tue 26 Jun 200700:20
BBC Two except East, Northern Ireland & Yorkshire

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Credits

PresenterVictoria Coren
ParticipantIan McMillan
ParticipantJohn Sergeant
ParticipantMike Harding

Broadcasts

  • Fri 22 Jun 200722:00
    BBC Two England, Northern Ireland (Analogue), Northern Ireland & Wales (Analogue) only
  • Tue 26 Jun 200700:05
    BBC Two Northern Ireland (Analogue) & Northern Ireland only
  • Tue 26 Jun 200700:20
    BBC Two except East, Northern Ireland & Yorkshire