22/12/2025

"I used to hate buying presents"

Merry Christmas! This week it's five reindeers prancing (why are they called "rein" deer?), four German zoos, three types of gift I give my family, two knees-a-clicking (not mine), and a partridge in a pear tree!

Ministry of Rightspeak
Quintuplicate letters

What's Dis
Reindeer, Caribou

Something Different
The Twelve Days of Christmas

Cryptic Corner

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Music by Kevin MacLeod, arranged by Kit Foxley

Also featuring the songs:

"Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer"
by Johnny Marks and Robert L. May
performed by Mmm De, YouTube.

"Deck the Halls"
performed by Kevin MacLeod.

01/12/2025

"Stranger Things season five means nothing to me"

Fetch! Sit! Watch every Wes Anderson film! This week it's dog breeds. Are St Bernards truly blessed? Are terriers terrible? Are whippets always huffing gas? Tune in to find out!

Harvey Dudgeon
Knots

Etymology
Dog breeds

Cryptic Corner

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Music by Kevin MacLeod, arranged by Kit Foxley

Also featuring the songs:

"Nymphetamine (Fix)"
by Cradle of Filth.

"Gotta catch 'em all!"
by John Siegler and John Loeffler
performed by Jason Paige.

"Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs"
by Bruce Miller and Darryl Phinnesse
performed by Sid and the Comeds.

29/09/2025

"Your whole system falls apart"

Will the real Slim Shady please explain English conditionals. With pleasure! And which spice is known as the stinking gum? Tune in to hear why Anti-Lock Braking is actually the nanny state.

Oxford New Words

Plants of Interest
Asafoetida

Motor Scrap Auto Service
Anti-lock braking

Punch Up The Psalm
Psalm 101: I will sing of mercy and judgment

New Accent Please

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Music by Kevin MacLeod, arranged by Kit Foxley

Also featuring songs by Eminem.

15/09/2025

"Did you know that Boris Johnson paints buses?"

This week I do evil work for evil people. Who Googlewashes the Googlewashers? Listen on to hear about the bear who joined the Polish army. He ate cigarettes and has a very easy to pronounce name, honest!

Psycholoscopes
Egyptian pyramids

Elemental
Mercury

Mnemonics
US universities

Did Someone Say Puzzles

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Music by Kevin MacLeod, arranged by Kit Foxley

01/09/2025

"A cast list is so exciting"

Sam and Ella are totally toxic, dude. Oh, I mean Salmonella. Tune in for dastardly diseases, Superdrug soaps, and Daniel Bedingfield. I gotta get thru this copious diarrhoea!

Ministry of Rightspeak
False rhymes

What's Dis
Salmonella, Typhoid, Typhus

Double Platinum Discs
Daniel Bedingfield - Gotta Get Thru This

Cryptic Corner

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Music by Kevin MacLeod, arranged by Kit Foxley

18/08/2025

"Liar Liar has aged pretty well"

Cerulean. Azure. Cyan. Indigo? It's not purple! This week I'm feeling anything but blue. Plus Alma Levant Hayden's excellent adventure where she wipes out totally bogus quackery. Dude!

Harvey Dudgeon
Horse breeds

Etymology
Blue

Cambridge Analytics

Great Women of Science
Alma Levant Hayden

Cryptic Corner

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Music by Kevin MacLeod, arranged by Kit Foxley

04/08/2025

"Self driving cars are... here?"

Which Egyptian deity was exceptionally well-endowed? And are robots coming for your large intestine? Whoops, I mean your job. Tune in to find out!

Oxford New Words

That's An Organ
Caecum

Snog Mythology Avoid
Sihuanaba, Min, Red Ghost

New Accent Please

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Music by Kevin MacLeod, arranged by Kit Foxley

21/07/2025

"You can wear clothes inside out"

It's a bumper episode as I tell you all of funky Will.i.am Shakespeare's plays and how to memorise them. Plus a list of all the people I've kissed! TMI.

Psycholoscopes
Mint plants

Mnemonics and Deep Dive
Shakespeare's plays

Cryptic Corner

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Music by Kevin MacLeod, arranged by Kit Foxley

Also featuring the songs:

"Knights of Cydonia"
Written and performed by Muse.

"Can't Take My Eyes Off You"
Written by Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio
Performed by Heath Ledger, from the film "10 Things I Hate About You"
Performed by Morton Harket, from the film "Coneheads"
Instrumental version by Atomic Karaoke, from YouTube.