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

this week coming to you from the Glee Comedy Club in Cardiff.

My name is Dan Schreiber. I am sitting here with Anich Zinski, Andrew Hunter Murray 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 you, James.

Okay, my fact this week is the oldest surviving Sutty puppet has just been bought to auction

and is bought by Sutty. No, it was by the new guy Richard Cadal who's in charge of Sutty at the moment

and whenever he bitted for it he bitted it with Sutty on his hands. Wow, that is great.

That's very cool. Sutty's emancipated himself. Yeah, cool.

It's actually more like he sold himself back in dislavery.

Okay, get this. When they were on television together, Sutty and Sue were never allowed to touch

each other in case things got too steamy. Yeah, so this is true. Sutty and Sue, when Sue was

introduced, there was a worry at the BBC that this would introduce a sexual element and too much

sexual tension to the show and so she was only allowed in on sufferance that she never touched

him and that he never touched her. They didn't speak to her beforehand and go, this is what you're

not allowed to do, right? Well, no, for international listeners, they're both love puppet bears.

So it's easy to enforce. But actually Sue is a panda and pandas aren't bears.

So there's a certain amount of interspecies stuff going on there. Yeah, true. Wow. Oh, no.

No, no. Wasn't she, was she voiced by the wife of the person who did Sutty? Yeah, Harry

Corbett's wife played her, but then Harry Corbett's son took over the role, but his mum stayed playing

the girlfriend. But it was an unusual setup. Yeah. I think he actually replaced her, didn't he? His daughter

replaced her quite quickly and said he didn't want her playing Sue any more maybe because of that.

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