Leuty Parker

Tag: #radio4

  • The News Quiz Revisited

    I listened to the News Quiz earlier today & it’s really enjoyable, but brought back some bad memories. I used to know & date someone who worked for radio 4 so revisiting the station held some interesting memories.

    (The News Quiz is on radio 4)

    I always used to really enjoy the News Quiz. It does keep me up to date on the news & it amuses me. I want this to be a future weekly thing; logging all the facts I get from the News Quiz, & blogging about it. That way I can make my readers who may be brain injury survivors, or just news enthusiasts interested in my blog.

    My graduation photographer

  • 15/6 -Apocolocyntosis

    I was listening to this download I have which is old episodes of radio 4 programs. This one in particular was an episode of “workaholics” which I imagine the old (& the current) Leuty likes. It does explore etymology amongst other things.

    They do a round on phobias, where it is said that phobias come from the Greek word where “phobos“ which means“fear”.

    “Arigata mayooahtoo” is a Japanese word which means when someone offers to do you a favour & you decline because you think it’d make you worse off, they do it anyway & it goes wrong, but because of social convention you have to behave as if you’re grateful.

    Natalie Hames comments that apppolocyntosis was formed by Senicca & it means the act of turning into a pumpkin. The Romans, for political reasons had to believe that when an emperor dies he turned into a god, this was called apotheosis.

    Seneca mocks Claudius (thinking he was terrible), & says he goes through “appolocyntosis” which is the act of turning into a pumpkin.