Feb 17, 2020
The
Good Words Podcast returns with series 3 in one week! In the
meantime, here is a preview of another of Miss Lynn's projects
during the GWP hiatus. She has launched a new blog, Hindsight
is so 2020, with select posts also available in audio format, or as
a "blogcast." Here is the first of these.
Enjoy!
Feb 3, 2020
In this bonus "earpetizer" of The Good Words Podcast (originally released in 2019), host Lynn Hickernell features an excerpt from Dickens's A Christmas Carol, the poem "The Bells of Shandon" by Francis Sylvester Mahony read by Una Clancy, and a special listener-submitted edition of, "GET IT?!?!?"
Complete episode notes...
Jan 20, 2020
Host
Lynn Hickernell welcomes the new year with a Kids Listen Sweeps
episode of the Good Words Podcast about the word, "retrospective."
Featured in this bonus episode: a "Say What?!?" segment about the
expression, "Hindsight is 20/20," a poem by Emily Dickinson, a
reprise of favorite jokes from past episodes, and,...
Jan 6, 2020
In this
bonus episode, host Lynn Hickernell explains the word,
"preposterous" with a true story from the Kids Listen podcast, "The
Past and the Curious" about meat falling from the sky, some
extremely ridiculous riddles in, "GET IT?!?!?" and the Edward Lear
poem, "The Table and the Chair."
Complete show notes are...
Dec 23, 2019
In this encore episode, host Lynn Hickernell explains the word, "euphonious" with some information about the brass instrument called a euphonium, and lots of examples of things that sound pleasing to different people, both because of the sounds themselves and because of what the sounds signify. Concludes with the Lewis...