Am I Old Yet? — Comedy audio drama · Flloyd Kennedy

What Would Helen Do?

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Helen dismantles the rule against ending sentences with prepositions using Winston Churchill’s famous grammatical joke.

1. Am I Old Yet? episode “What Would Helen Do?” begins Season 11 with Helen Alexander handling requests from family and mythological visitors.\n2. Floyd Kennedy plays Helen, Janie, and Susan, while Ira Seiden plays Zeus and Francis Brodie-Oldridge performs Apathe and Popsy’s kitten sounds.\n3. The episode asks what Helen would do when friends and family bring her food, pet-care, and relationship problems while she wants coffee and rest.\n4. Janie needs a light Saturday dinner before going to the theatre with John.\n5. Helen suggests a quick noodle dish and identifies it as the Malaysian street food “What Tanhor.”\n6. Janie connects the dish with Phil Wang’s comfort food on the Andy Oliver program and asks Helen to send the recipe.\n7. Susie explains that she and Charlie adopted a young cat named Popsy before travelling to Liverpool for a demonstration.\n8. The demonstration concerns the Festival Gardens and a council plan to sell the site to developers.\n9. Helen gives Susie three cat-care options: leave food and water, take Popsy along, or use a cat holiday home.\n10. Helen agrees to host Popsy overnight but insists that Susie bring the food, litter tray, and toys.\n11. A visitor arrives frightened and asks Helen to lock the door against Hera.\n12. Helen corrects the visitor’s use of “for what that you need my help,” turning the interruption into a discussion of English grammar.\n13. Helen says the prohibition against ending sentences with prepositions came from applying Latin rules to English.\n14. She cites Ben Johnson’s English grammar and Winston Churchill’s line “this is something up with which I will not put.”\n15. Apathe explains that she has been chasing Zeus because she believes he is pursuing another mortal woman.\n16. Zeus insists that he is happily married and no longer wants to seduce mortal women.\n17. Helen proposes a Truth and Reconciliation Council meeting involving Zeus, Hera, Apathe, Demeter, Artemis, and Hermes.\n18. The audio drama uses comic interruptions, repeated misunderstandings, mythological names, and Helen’s impatient attempts to make coffee.\n19. Fans of character-driven comedy audio dramas and Greek-mythology farce may enjoy this episode.\n20. Listeners seeking factual history or a straightforward dramatic narrative might skip it.

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