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Dave Fawthrop - 11 May 2007 08:38 GMT

HISTORY DOCUMENTARY: Balderdash and Piffle
On: BBC 2 North (102)
Date: Friday 11th May 2007 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:30 (30 minutes long)

One Sandwich Short of a Picnic.
Victoria Coren presents this series about words, inviting the public to
make a vital contribution to the Oxford English Dictionary. This programme
looks at the many words we use for madness. Former psychiatric nurse Jo
Brand returns to her old hospital, St Mary's Bethlem (Bedlam), to
demonstrate how today's worst insults - moron, idiot, imbecile and cretin -
were once official medical diagnoses. But who, for example, first went
'bananas' and why?
(Stereo, New Series, Widescreen, Subtitles)
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Marked By: 'Favourite: Balderdash and Piffle' and 'Documentary' markers
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Mark Wallace - 11 May 2007 19:08 GMT

> HISTORY DOCUMENTARY: Balderdash and Piffle
> On: BBC 2 North (102)
> Date: Friday 11th May 2007 (starting this evening)
> Time: 22:00 to 22:30 (30 minutes long)

Long time no see, Dave. Thanks for the tip; I almost never turn my TV on,
so I'd have missed it.

Is this where I can gloat about being able to watch the Beeb without paying
a licence fee?

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Dave Fawthrop - 11 May 2007 19:41 GMT

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|!> HISTORY DOCUMENTARY: Balderdash and Piffle
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|!Is this where I can gloat about being able to watch the Beeb without paying
|!a licence fee?

They can watch satellite UK TV way down in Spain.

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Mark Wallace - 12 May 2007 17:52 GMT

> |!
> |!> HISTORY DOCUMENTARY: Balderdash and Piffle
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> They can watch satellite UK TV way down in Spain.

Sure, but the Beeb is standard, in NL, no matter whom you subscribe to.

ITV has to be paid for, but, since I'm not a Corrie-watcher, I don't bother.

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Dave Fawthrop - 12 May 2007 18:42 GMT

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|!> On Fri, 11 May 2007 20:08:34 +0200, "Mark Wallace" <mwallace@dse.nl>
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|!
|!ITV has to be paid for, but, since I'm not a Corrie-watcher, I don't bother.

Not any more ITV went Free to Air last year, so you can get both BBC and
ITV using a generic satellite box. Only Ch4 and Ch5 are still encrypted on
Astra. If you give a *real* UK address you can get a freesatfromsky card
for GBP20 which should last a few years and you can get Ch4 and Ch5 plus
$ky3, with a Sky box. see sig.

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Blue Sow - 12 May 2007 12:25 GMT

> HISTORY DOCUMENTARY: Balderdash and Piffle
> On: BBC 2 North (102)
> Date: Friday 11th May 2007 (starting this evening)
> Time: 22:00 to 22:30 (30 minutes long)

I had not seen any previous examples of this programme so I made a point of
watching it. The title was apt.
The idea might have worked quite well on the radio and there was almost enough
material for a 15 minute slot on first usage dates.

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David - 12 May 2007 16:14 GMT

> > HISTORY DOCUMENTARY: Balderdash and Piffle On: BBC 2 North (102)
> > Date: Friday 11th May 2007 (starting this evening) Time: 22:00 to
> > 22:30 (30 minutes long)

> I had not seen any previous examples of this programme so I made a
> point of watching it. The title was apt. The idea might have worked
> quite well on the radio and there was almost enough material for a
> 15 minute slot on first usage dates.

A not so rare example from the Beeb of how a really good programme idea
can be popularised to the extent of making one really wish one had
overdone LSD in the 60s.

The only good thing to say about it was that Josephine Baker was the
one dancing in bananas while Jo Brand contented herself with being
seated and wearing nuts on her head.

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Peter Duncanson - 12 May 2007 16:32 GMT

> Josephine Baker was the
>one dancing in bananas while Jo Brand contented herself with being
>seated and wearing nuts on her head.

I hadn't thought of that role reversal. I hope I can get the image
out of my mind PDQ.

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Discussion Groups / British English / May 2007

Balderdash and Piffle is back for a new seiries :-)