Wordaholics

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Comedy panel game all about words, hosted by Gyles Brandreth

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Gyles Brandreth

Lloyd Langford

Holly Walsh

Paul Sinha

Natalie Haynes

Jon Hunter

James Kettle

Claire Jones

Wordaholics: Series 3: Episode 5

Episode 5

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Lloyd Langford, Holly Walsh, Paul Sinha and Natalie Haynes join Gyles Brandreth.

Lloyd Langford, Holly Walsh, Paul Sinha and Natalie Haynes in Gyles Brandreth's word-obsessed comedy panel game. From 2014.

Stand up comedians Lloyd Langford, Holly Walsh and Paul Sinha and novelist and classicist Natalie Haynes vie for word supremacy.

Gyles Brandreth is in the chair.

The letter of the week is the sinuous letter 'S'.

The panellists play a round about portmanteau words – and get to guess the meaning of some foreign words which have no direct equivalent in English. 

And they also try to ban the words which drive them most mad. 

Writers: Jon Hunter and James Kettle.

Producer: Claire Jones.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2014.

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