Balderdash and Piffle - Series 2
A look at the way that people use words
Balderdash and Piffle - Series 2 - Dodgy Dealings
Victoria Coren, Suggs and Neil Oliver investigate words for dodgy dealers, rapscallions and other sorts of scallywag.
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Balderdash and Piffle - Series 2 - Euphemisms - The Lace Curtain of Language
Victoria Coren, Artur Smith and Michael Portillo investigate the euphemisms for sex, death, war and going to the toilet.
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Balderdash and Piffle - Series 2 - Fashionistas
Series which invites the public to make a vital contribution to the Oxford English Dictionary. Victoria Coren leads the hunt for the word-origins of various footwear.
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Balderdash and Piffle - Series 2 - Man's Best Friend
Victoria Coren presents the series about words. This episode investigates the many uses we have for the word 'dog'.
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Balderdash and Piffle - Series 2 - Put Downs and Insults
Victoria Coren, John Sergeant, Denis Healey, Ian McMillan and Mike Harding enlighten us on words such as wazzock, prat and plonker as put downs and insults.
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Balderdash and Piffle - Series 2 - Who Were They?
Victoria Coren, Adam Hart-Davis, Marcel Theroux and Simon Hoggart head off on the trail of the real people whose names have been immortalised in the English language.
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Balderdash and Piffle - Series 2 - X Rated
Victoria Coren, Burlesque star Immodesty Blaise and Roland Rivron investigate dictionary entries about sex and what they tell us about our sexual history.
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