Away with Words (Documentary, English)
Status: Ended
Premiered: 1998-09-15
Ended: 1998-12-20
Network: ITV1
Country: GB
Airs on: Sunday
Runtime: 30 minutes
Presenter Neil Innes has fun exploring the origins of well-known words; and phrases in Away with Words. The 13-part series follows him on his travels from Yarmouth to Ely, Southend, Newmarket, Luton, Southwold, Duxford, Ipswich, Norwich, Corby, Bletchley, Cambridge and Colchester. But it won't be a map so much as a dictionary that he will have as a guide as he looks for the unlikely sources of all sorts of everyday names and sayings, and talks to some of the people who can throw light on them.