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Etymology (WORD ORIGINS) with Helen Zaltzman of The Allusionist Podcast
Ologies with Alie Ward
How Did You Get the Idea for the Illusionist?
In 2014, I had the idea of doing a show that was called Word Detective. And then my friend Roman Miles, who makes 99% invisible, had just founded Radiotopia. He came to stay with me in London in the summer of 2014 and I said, I've had an idea for a show. It's a bit like your show,. But for language, instead of architecture and design. And he was like, OK. So they dug around for the financing, because she wouldn't have been able to do, answer me this, plus the illusionist, plus handle extra time of a day job.
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