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🗓️ 22 April 2016
⏱️ 34 minutes
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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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