Susie Dent

Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Global

Society & Culture

4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Lexicographer, etymologist and Queen of Countdown’s Dictionary Corner, Susie Dent has always been fascinated by words. As a child, she would read the labels of shampoo bottles at bath time, marvelling at the fact they were written in a different language. She studied modern languages at Oxford University before getting a job at Oxford University Press. She made her first appearance on Channel 4’s Countdown in 1992. Since then, she has appeared in more than 8,000 episodes and is the longest serving member of the current on-air team. Susie has also written several books including her latest, Interesting Stories About Curious Words and Roots of Happiness.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey Sainsbury's. Do anything to help my money stretch a bit further this time of year?
0:03.6	Well, we're always matching and lowering prices. So every week, hundreds of Sainsbury's fresh and everyday products are price match to Aldi.
0:09.7	And every week, with nectar, you can save money on thousands of your family's favourite brands.
0:14.3	So your money can go further while you don't have to.
0:16.9	Looking for ways to save money? Ask Sainsbury's. Sainsbury's, good food for all of us.
0:22.3	Selected products.
0:23.2	Aldi Price Match, not in N-I.
0:24.5	Nectar Prices require nectar account.
0:26.0	Terms, Sainsbridge.com slash al-de-pricematch
0:28.2	and nectar.com slash prices terms.
0:32.5	This is a global player original podcast.
0:51.3	Okay. a global player original podcast. Hello and welcome to full disclosure, a podcast project conceived entirely to let me spend more time than I'd ever get on the radio with interesting people.
1:00.4	Susie Dent, welcome.
1:01.5	Hello, James. It's lovely to see you.
1:02.8	Well, it's lovely to see you too. And I don't know where to start, really, because so multi-fair.
1:07.9	And also, very, very rarely does this happen to me. I'm very conscious of
1:12.0	misusing words. Oh, gosh. Do you know, I am the first person who will misuse them liberally.
1:17.3	And people often say to me, I couldn't actually write you a text message because I didn't
1:21.3	know if I needed to put a semicolon in. I'm not that person at all, I promise. I know, but still, I'd get away with it on the radio, but I nearly said multifarious then,
1:30.4	and then I stopped myself because I thought maybe that's not actually what multifarious mean.
1:33.8	Yeah, no, I think it does, doing lots of things, as long as it's not nefarious.
1:37.5	I'm happy with that.
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in -501 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Global, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Global and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.