Away With Words - Season 1 Episode 5
1998-12-20
48 minutes.
Season - Episode
1
Season 1 Sep 15, 1998
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1 - 1Episode 1 Sep 15, 1998 -
1 - 2Episode 2 Sep 22, 1998
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1 - 3Episode 3 Sep 29, 1998
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1 - 4Episode 4 Oct 06, 1998
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1 - 5Episode 5 Oct 13, 1998
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1 - 6Episode 6 Oct 25, 1998
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1 - 7Episode 7 Nov 01, 1998
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1 - 8Episode 8 Nov 08, 1998
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1 - 9Episode 9 Nov 15, 1998
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1 - 10Episode 10 Nov 22, 1998
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1 - 11Episode 11 Nov 29, 1998
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1 - 12Episode 12 Dec 13, 1998
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1 - 13Episode 13 Dec 20, 1998
Overview
Neil Innes gets to grips with more of the English language in a programme which ranges from real tennis to Romeo and Juliet. Juliet's big poser 'What's in a name?" provides the perfect excuse for Neil to climb into costume and discover the enormous debt our everyday speech still owes to William Shakespeare. While a visit to a real tennis court serves to uncover the origins of some of the sport's idiosyncrasies (like the scoring). And where better than Cambridge, to find out why students "graduate", who makes a "chum", and how to stay out of someone's "bad books'. A trip to the tailor's reveals, among other things, where the term "the full Monty" originated. And, punting down the river, there's time to contemplate how Cambridge itself came by its name.
Year 1998
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Popularity 0.4168
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