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Balderdash and Piffle

Series 2

Episode 6: Put Downs and Insults

Duration: 50 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Scotland

Victoria Coren presents the series about words, inviting the public to make a vital contribution to the Oxford English Dictionary.

In this edition on put downs and insults, Victoria tries to find the earliest evidence for prats and plonkers. John Sergeant looks at unparliamentary language. And poet Ian McMillan and comedian Mike Harding battle over whether Yorkshire or Lancashire can claim to have originated the word 'wazzock'. Show less

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