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

week coming to you live from Coventry!

My name is Dan Schreiber and I am sitting here with Annotch Zinski, Andrew Hunter Murray

and James Harkin and once again someone is still clapping, what is going on there?

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 this week with My Fact,

My Fact This Week is that in the annual Lady Gdiva Parade, which famously celebrates a lady who

rode naked through Coventry, not only does the rider always wear clothes, but one year even the horse

wore trousers. It's the trouser'd horse. How did the horse wear the trousers? Did it wear them over

its back end or did it wear them all four legs? It had all four legs. There's a photo, you can see it.

So it actually wore two pairs of trousers? Yeah, it wore two pairs of trousers. Yeah, that's true.

Yeah. That's amazing and it was in the early 20th century, right? It was 1919. Yeah, it was a Lady

Gdiva Parade and amazingly there's these beautiful photos that you can see of the event. They are,

I think she was an actress called Gladys Mann, which is ironic because she's a woman.

But actually, wasn't it true that the first Lady Gdivas who did these things were all men?

Why didn't they? I think they were. Yeah, the first one that was, we know he was the son of James

Swinnaton. Don't know what his name was. Wow. Do you know what an irritating thing to be called

going through life. Hello, I'm the son of James Swinnaton. Do you have a name? Yes, that's my name.

He was paid 15 shillings to do that. But it's been kind of sporadic, hasn't it, that Lady Gdiva

Parade throughout history and they've been variously like band and then dropped and they've come back.

And in the 19th century, I think they really caught on them. People were paraded through the streets

and in the 1840s, they really became a big thing again and there'd be someone cast as Lady Gdiva

...