Many a Slip was a BBC Radio 4 panel game created by Ian Messiter that ran from 1964 to 1979. It was chaired by Roy Plomley, with a musical mistakes round supplied by Steve Race. The title of the show is a reference to the English proverb "There's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip".
The BBC received requests from school teachers and lecturers for transcripts of Ian Messiter's pieces as a fun way of teaching educational subjects to students.
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Famous quotes containing the words many a and/or slip:
“many and many a day he thither went,
And never lifted up a single stone.”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
“Don’t let slip an opportunity; it may never come again.”
—Chinese proverb.