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

to you from the QI offices in Covered Garden.

My name is Dan Triber.

I am sitting here with Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Chazinski and James Harkin.

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

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

Starting with my facts, my fact this week is that on July the 13th, 1930 Sir Arthur

Conan Doyle headlined a show at the Royal Albert Hall despite having died six days before.

Did you get booed?

You couldn't be booed off stage, could you?

You mean died in a physical sense, not died in how to really bad gig sense?

Yeah, so basically what happened is that six days previous Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had

actually died and his family were very spiritual and they knew that they were going to be reunited

with him in some way and they thought why don't we put on effectively a family reunion

gig at the Royal Albert Hall and they did it as a partial memorial as well.

So it was build as a memorial.

However, the star bill at the top was that there was going to be a clairvoyant coming along.

There was going to be an empty chair on the stage at the Royal Albert Hall and his spirit

would be summoned to give a message to say it's all good, I'm on the other side.

And it was, right?

Okay, it rocks up.

It showed up six and 6,000 people came to see it as well.

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