Grammarians, I have a radio program for you. Unfortunately, it has become a little difficult to find, but it can be done. It’s the BBC radio program “My Word.” You will love the erudite accents and whimsy — and proper grammar — of the program’s participants.

The panel show was broadcast weekly from 1956 to 1990 and can still be heard on many public radio stations.

Unfortunately, Kansas Public Radio (FM 91.5) no longer carries the show, so the next time you send in your pledge to support the station, add a little extra and ask them to consider reinstating it.

Meanwhile there are ways to hear some old episodes through the Internet. Five episodes are available for downloading from http://www.kozco.com/myword/myword.html .

A list of the public radio stations that still carry it, along with days and times of the broadcasts, is available at http://tunein.com/radio/options/My-Word-p934/.

The participants during many of those years included the comedy writers Frank Muir and Denis Norden. Muir partnered each week with film critic and Greek scholar Dilys Powell. Norden’s partner in many of the older shows was journalist Anne Scott-James. In later episodes, writer and historian Antonia Fraser replaced Scott-James.

In a lot of ways, the show was sort of a British version of Click and Clack, the Car Talk guys. The participants were asked such questions as the definition of an obscure word and the origin of the word.

Often they were given a few words from a piece of poetry or literature and asked for the author’s name and the name of the work.

Amazingly, they knew most of the answers. What made it fun, though, was the droll joking that came before the correct answer was finally given — just like Click and Clack format.

The highlight of each show, though, was when Muir and Norden each were given a commonly known phrase and asked to come up with some improbable story to explain how the phrase came into being.

On one show, for example, Norden was asked to explain the phrase, “Every little movement has a meaning of its own.” He began this way:

“I picked up a newspaper and was immediately confronted by a headline that said, ‘Public Borrowing Down.’ I found myself wondering why on earth would members of the public want to borrow down. If it’s so expensive that you are borrowing it, could we get to a position where down is up?”

Because each show is 30 minutes long, it’s perfect entertainment for a 30-minute walk. The drawback, of course, is that at the end of the walk you’re a mile or so from home. Better take two episodes along.

Mike Hall can be reached at mike.hall@cjonline.com.