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🗓️ 15 April 2016
⏱️ 33 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast |
0:16.0 | coming to you from the QI offices in Covert Garden. |
0:18.6 | My name is Dan Schreiber. |
0:19.6 | I am sitting here with Anich Zinsky, James Harkin and Andy Murray. |
0:23.4 | And once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the |
0:27.0 | last seven days and in a particular order, here we go. |
0:30.9 | Starting with you, James. |
0:32.7 | Okay, my fact this week is that in 1921, the news of the world offered a free tea tray |
0:37.6 | to any mother on the birth of her tenth child. |
0:40.8 | Hmm, nice. |
0:41.8 | Why was it doing that? |
0:43.8 | Well, the reason was it had just been the war. |
0:47.1 | And also there was contraception widespreadly available now, which there wasn't before. |
0:52.2 | The newspapers had a bit of a kind of moral crisis about the being not enough children in |
0:57.2 | the UK. |
0:58.2 | And so they wanted to encourage children. |
1:00.1 | The daily express, for instance, had a Britain's largest family competition at the same time. |
1:04.8 | But the idea of the news of the world was that a woman would genuinely be induced to think, |
1:10.6 | actually I won't stop at three. |
1:12.1 | I'll go all the way up to ten children because once I get to ten, I'll get a tea tray. |
1:16.4 | It's interesting, isn't it? |
1:17.4 | What stage? |
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