Season 1 (1998)

Episode 1
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September 15, 1998

Programme one sees him joining the circus at Great Yarmouth's Hippodrome, where he makes the acquaintance of a friendly pachyderm ...Read more

Episode 2
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September 22, 1998

AWAY WITH WORDS, presenter Neil Innes falls foul of the Roundheads (while dressed as a Cavalier), gets nosy about Cromwell, tries ...Read more

Episode 3
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September 29, 1998

Neil Innes has fun beside the seaside, exploring words and sayings which take him from cockle-fishing to Cockney rhyming slang. So...Read more

Episode 4
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October 6, 1998

AWAY WITH WORDS presenter Neil Innes is off to Newmarket to dabble in the sport of kings and find out what the richness of the lan...Read more

Episode 5
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October 13, 1998

Neil Innes gets to grips with more of the English language in a programme which ranges from real tennis to Romeo and Juliet. Julie...Read more

Episode 6
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October 25, 1998

He doesn't eat his hat, but presenter Neil Innes does tuck into a curry when AWAY WITH WORDS takes a closer look at what the Engli...Read more

Episode 7
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November 1, 1998

It is all grist to the mill for presenter Neil Innes, when he manages to coinbine beer-tasting, golf, music and Morris dancing in ...Read more

Episode 8
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November 8, 1998

More from Neil Innes as he discovers the origins on common words and phrases. This episode is based around the beach and hot air balloons.

Episode 9
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November 15, 1998

AWAY WITH WORDS presenter Neil Innes takes to the skies as he follows the English language to America - and back - in this week's ...Read more

Episode 10
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November 22, 1998

Smuggling, seafaring and superstition are all on the agenda when AWAY WITH WORDS presenter Neil Innes finds himself trawling for t...Read more

Episode 11
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November 29, 1998

More from Neil Innes on words and their origins. In this episode Neil goes to the Physio.

Episode 12
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December 13, 1998

AWAY WITH WORDS gets into dictionaries, codes and computers as presenter Neil Innes boldly goes into cyberspace in pursuit of the ...Read more

Episode 13
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December 20, 1998

Enlisting the unlikely help of a large St Bernard dog, a group of Roman soldiers, and some Anglo Saxon villagers, presenter Neil I...Read more