Don’t Come A-Knockin’

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70s-vanWe begin this week’s show by acknowledging the absurdity of Minnie Driver’s name. This gets us onto some stories about my gran, who really liked Ian McShane. Then we go through a list of (sadly) obsolete words, some of which have dirty-sounding names, and almost none of which mean what you think they do. Then, my mum takes a particularly difficult quiz, where she tries to guess the meaning of “The Iditarod.” I know, cruel. Johnson, on the other hand, has a bit of “previous”…