Something Rhymes with Purple

Sony Music Entertainment

Susie Dent and Gyles Brandreth invite you to enhance your vocabulary, uncover the hidden origins of language and share their love of words in this award-winning podcast.

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287 episodes
Updated Jul 23, 2024

Episodes287

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Feb 11, 2020 · 24 min
The Blind Leading The Blind
Rise and shine, Purple People! This week we're getting rather spiritual and delving into the majesty of the King James Bible, a book which, despite being written over 400-years ago still runs deep through our modern-day language and phraseology.
Feb 4, 2020 · 30 min
Bizzies and Kirtles
You’re nicked! This week we’re playing Cops and Robbers and chasing down the origins of words and phrases on both sides of the law. Find out who gave us the terms Bobbies and Peelers, why you should respect an Onion, and what to do if you come across a Black Rat.
Jan 28, 2020 · 37 min
Macushla
Wotcha! Hi! Hello! How are you? Good to meet you! And how do you do my lovely bag puddings and flittermice? Welcome to this weeks' purple podcast...For the second of our live shows in front of a wonderful audience of Purple People we're talking about greetings, terms of endearment and, in the second half, affectionate terms for your meat-and-two-veg or your cupid's warehouse... (warning: explicit content!).
Jan 21, 2020 · 37 min
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
This week is our first ever show recorded in front of a LIVE audience. In front of a packed room of Purple People at the Islington Assembly Hall in London, Gyles and Susie discuss their love of words and their individual “word journeys".
Jan 20, 2020 · 1 min
We Have Our Own Merch!
Here at Something Rhymes With Purple we now have our very own mugs! Susie and Gyles are big fans, and you will be too!Pick up your very own Something Rhymes With Purple mug here: https://purple.backstreetmerch.com/Happy drinking!
Jan 14, 2020 · 33 min
Dexter
This week we’re playing the name game! Following on from our recent episode on surnames and nominative determinism, we’re now casting our eye over first names. What do they mean? What are their origins? Do they reflect your p...
Jan 7, 2020 · 27 min
Leather-arse
Taxi!! This week we’re giving you a ride through the world of cabbie vernacular. We’re testing our Knowledge, taking you through the Oranges & Lemons right up to the Gasworks.
Dec 24, 2019 · 38 min
Le Pétomane
It’s Christmaaaaaaaas! This week we’re vamping it up and delving into festive language, discovering the origins of Boxing Day, why a punch packs a punch, and why a partridge in a pear tree might not be the blessing it first seems.
Dec 17, 2019 · 30 min
Tawdry
This week we’re doing some last-minute shopping and trying not to act like a couple of bulls in a china shop.
Dec 10, 2019 · 29 min
Nipcheese
This week Gyles and Susie go tit for tat, giving as good as they get in hurling some creative insults at each other.
Dec 3, 2019 · 32 min
Pissabed
This week is all about YOU the listener!
Nov 26, 2019 · 27 min
Hysteria
This week we’re going hysterical for medical terms. We’ll be turning our lexicographical X-Ray machine on and diagnosing the etymology of everything from asphyxia to syringe.
Nov 19, 2019 · 31 min
Grog-blossom
Today we’re practicing the toilet arts and taking a trip through the language of beauty.
Nov 12, 2019 · 32 min
Nemophilism
This week we’re going al fresco and kicking the leaves on an autumnal walk through the woods.
Nov 5, 2019 · 27 min
Cacafuego
Today we’re shaking a leg.
Oct 29, 2019 · 29 min
Gobelinus
Wooooooo, it’s our Halloween Special!
Oct 22, 2019 · 28 min
Haddaway
We’re talking sports this week. What have boxing, horse racing and dart throwing done for the English language?
Oct 15, 2019 · 22 min
Cachinnator
The words introduced to our language by poets.
Oct 8, 2019 · 32 min
Podiacide
The hidden vocabulary of the body (part 1: from the head to the chest).
Oct 1, 2019 · 26 min
Thunderplump
We’re talking about the weather today.