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No Such Thing As A Fish

110: No Such Thing As A Dull Post Box

No Such Thing As A Fish

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

4.817.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2016

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Dan, James, Anna, Andy and special guest Sara Pascoe discuss underwater postboxes, easily distracted hijackers and the Disney film all about menstruation.

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0:00.0

Hi guys, we've got a seriously special guest on the podcast today.

0:02.8

It is Sarah Pasco and you're about to hear that she is brilliant and funny and fascinating

0:08.5

and has a book out which is also all of those three things.

0:12.7

It's called Animal or if you want the full unedited title, it's called Animal,

0:17.2

colon, the autobiography of a female body.

0:19.8

And it's out right now. Go and get it.

0:22.6

Okay, on with the show.

0:30.7

Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming

0:42.4

to you from the QI offices in Covent Garden.

0:45.1

My name is Dan Schreiber.

0:46.1

I'm sitting here with Andy Murray, Aniches Ensky, James Harkin and Sarah Pasco.

0:50.8

And once again, we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts

0:54.2

from the last seven days and in no particular order, here we go.

0:58.5

Sarah Pasco.

1:00.5

Okay, in the 1920s, scientists concluded that menstruating women wilted flowers.

1:07.4

So it's a proper scientist and so his name, and it's a he, but his name's Bella Schick.

1:15.3

I think I've only seen it written down and he's a proper scientist.

1:18.7

He cured diphtheria and I think apparently he was the first person to use the word immunization.

1:23.7

So he's a proper guy.

1:25.3

But then one day he's made, was passing him some flowers.

1:28.6

So she was like, I don't want to pass you the flowers and then he's like, do the flowers.

1:32.9

And then the next day they were all wilted, these red roses and she was like, oh,

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