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No Such Thing As A Fish

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

4.817.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2017

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Andy, Anna, James and special guest Cariad Lloyd discuss Unity Mitford's BFFs, how planes (don't) cure deafness, and why you shouldn't eat Scottish show.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another episode. No-sutters thing is a fish, a weekly podcast coming

0:19.0

to you from the QI office in Covent Garden. My name is Andrew Hunter Murray and I'm sitting

0:22.8

here with James Harkin, Anna Tuginski and our special guest this week is Carrie Adloid.

0:28.4

Carrie Ad is a comedian we all know. She's been on QI a load of times. She's in an improvise

0:32.8

show called ostentatious which is Jane Austen based in Verizon Comedy with me and she also

0:38.4

is the presenter and host and producer and everything of the podcast grief cast which is about

0:44.8

grief and about the people you've lost but it's also very uplifting and charming and

0:49.4

funny and wonderful. So do give that a listen. Okay starting with fact number one this week

0:54.4

and that is Carrie Adloid. My fact is that Unity Mittford was the only person to be BFFs

1:01.6

with Churchill and Hitler. She was best friends forever just to run the 80s kids in the

1:09.0

room. Yeah she was definitely best buddies, Bezzies with Hitler. She was very Bezzies with

1:13.2

Hitler but she was also very old family friends with Churchill and at some point just before

1:19.4

war broke out so she was living in Germany basically completely in Hitler's inner circle

1:25.3

she was completely there and she used to write to her friend Winston and beg him very

1:29.8

regularly to make peace with Hitler because she really believed in both countries. Now

1:34.5

caveat yes she was a massive fascist so obviously not my saying I love her but she did really

1:39.6

believe that England and Germany could work together and become this incredible superpower

1:43.6

and she always said if they go to war I'll kill myself I'll kill because these are my

1:47.8

two greatest arts in my country and spoiler alert the moment war broke out she went into a park

1:52.6

and she shot herself in the head but spoiler spoiler alert it didn't work she survived with the

1:58.3

bullet in her head. But then she did also die due to an infection but much later much much later

2:03.9

so Hitler her BFF and when she did shoot herself in her head Hitler felt so bad obviously it was his

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