A Word in Your Ear
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| - | + | Kershaw Production Associates and Stag Presentations Limited for BBC1, 19 April 1993 to 14 October 1994 (40 episodes in 2 series) | |
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<div class="image">[[Image:Wordinyourear kinnocks.jpg]]''Neil and Glenys Kinnock''</div> | <div class="image">[[Image:Wordinyourear kinnocks.jpg]]''Neil and Glenys Kinnock''</div> | ||
| - | Another frequently-used form is that one celebrity sees a photofit identity picture or an object made up | + | Another frequently-used form is that one celebrity sees a photofit identity picture or an object made up of Lego-style building-bricks or ping-pong balls and pipe cleaners and has to describe how the various parts of the picture or object relate to one another. The other celebrity uses the description provided by their partner in order to try and replicate the original. Usually they don't, which is always good for a giggle. |
<div class="image">[[File:Word in your ear3.jpg]]''Duplo: how hard can it be?''</div> | <div class="image">[[File:Word in your ear3.jpg]]''Duplo: how hard can it be?''</div> | ||
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Other rounds still involved the passing of emotions or adjectives by gesture and charade. | Other rounds still involved the passing of emotions or adjectives by gesture and charade. | ||
| - | Pleasant celebrity jollity, | + | Pleasant celebrity jollity, revealing more than most shows do about your favourite domestic B-list stars' strengths, weaknesses and innermost thought processes. Usually reliable for a good giggle or two. |
== Inventor == | == Inventor == | ||
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== Trivia == | == Trivia == | ||
| - | Several games later appeared in ''[[Relatively Speaking]]'', a similar show between two | + | Several games later appeared in ''[[Relatively Speaking]]'', a similar show between two families of civilians. They worked quite well there, too. |
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| + | Repeats of the 1994 series were shown in a lunchtime slot when ''[[Wipeout]]'' was taking a break during the summer of 1998. | ||
== Web links == | == Web links == | ||
Revision as of 03:34, 27 April 2020
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Host
Broadcast
Kershaw Production Associates and Stag Presentations Limited for BBC1, 19 April 1993 to 14 October 1994 (40 episodes in 2 series)
Kershaw Production Associates and Stag Presentations Limited for The Family Channel, 1995
Synopsis
Robohost Gordon Burns presided over male and female pairs of celebrities participating in five or so rounds of communication games.
One round involved providing a running commentary for a short film, which the partner had to memorise and answer questions upon; woe betide you if your commentary failed to contain the appropriate observational details.
Neil and Glenys KinnockAnother frequently-used form is that one celebrity sees a photofit identity picture or an object made up of Lego-style building-bricks or ping-pong balls and pipe cleaners and has to describe how the various parts of the picture or object relate to one another. The other celebrity uses the description provided by their partner in order to try and replicate the original. Usually they don't, which is always good for a giggle.
Duplo: how hard can it be?
Suzanne Dando, hiding her handiwork from Gordon Burns.Other rounds still involved the passing of emotions or adjectives by gesture and charade.
Pleasant celebrity jollity, revealing more than most shows do about your favourite domestic B-list stars' strengths, weaknesses and innermost thought processes. Usually reliable for a good giggle or two.
Inventor
Created by Gordon Burns and Geoff Kershaw.
Trivia
Several games later appeared in Relatively Speaking, a similar show between two families of civilians. They worked quite well there, too.
Repeats of the 1994 series were shown in a lunchtime slot when Wipeout was taking a break during the summer of 1998.
Web links
Pictures
We said it's called "A Word in Your..." - never mind.