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No Such Thing As A Fish

210: No Such Thing As A Sheep's Bedside Table

No Such Thing As A Fish

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

4.817.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Live from Leeds, Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss sheep in a lift, the cocktail-endorsing pope, and why the RAF have banned Tunnocks Teacakes.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:17.4

week coming to you live from Leeds!

0:21.8

My name is Dan Schreiber and I am sitting here with Anna Chazinski, Andrew Hunter

0:33.8

Murray and James Harkin and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our

0:38.2

four favorite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order here we go starting

0:43.9

with you Chazinski.

0:46.2

My fact this week is that the first hydraulic lift was invented to carry sheep onto a roof

0:53.2

and it was invented to do that in Leeds in fact.

0:58.6

You suck up.

1:02.6

No, no, no, what can I say?

1:04.6

No, it's this place called Temple Works and it's an area called Holbeck.

1:08.6

Do you own no temple works?

1:09.7

You must do right?

1:10.7

There you go.

1:12.7

It's this amazing building.

1:16.4

It was a flax mill.

1:17.4

It was started in 1836.

1:18.9

At the time it was built it was the biggest room in the world and it was this guy who was

1:24.8

designing this flax mill but he wanted to make it, he was very safety conscious and so

1:29.0

he thought it should all be on one level because he thought if there was a fire everyone

1:32.0

needed to be able to escape quite fast.

1:33.5

So it was one floor, huge room and the reason for the sheep on the roof is that.

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