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Episode 5

Wordaholics Series 1
Episode 5 of 6

Jack Whitehall, Milton Jones, Natalie Haynes and Susie Dent vie for wordy supremacy chaired by Gyles Brandreth. From 2012.

Wordaholics is the comedy panel game all about words.

Gyles Brandreth presides over toponyms, abbreviations, euphemisms, old words, new words, cockney rhyming slang, Greek gobbledegook, plus the panellists' picks of the ugliest and the most beautiful words.

Ready to vie for wordy supremacy in the ring:

Jack Whitehall
Milton Jones
Natalie Haynes
Susie Dent

Written by Jon Hunter and James Kettle.

Producer: Claire Jones

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2012.

23 days left to listen

30 minutes

Last on

Last Saturday 04:00
BBC Radio 4 Extra

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  • Mon 19 Mar 2012 11:30
    BBC Radio 4
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