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

to you from four undisclosed locations in the UK.

My name is Dan Schreiber, I'm sitting here with Anna Tijinsky, 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 fact number

one and that is my fact, my fact this week is that the London Underground used to have a church

interval on Sundays. Wow, it was expected the church, it would stop services during church times.

Stop services so that you could have a service. Very nice and we're off.

It's a bumpy start but at least we're moving.

If you were halfway between stations would it just stop underground on your trap there having

to worship God from the subpranialist? That's such a good point, I don't know. I did find a

thing called the London Underground Church and I thought oh great there's going to be a church

down there but apparently it was a political movement. It was a sort of like underground in the

sense that it wasn't allowed to be known. So it was a couple of hours on a Sunday so people could

go to church. It was 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. roughly and this is a thing that has existed for a very

long time. So the London Underground very very old. The first line opened in 1863 just to put

in context nine days before that Abraham Lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation in America

to do it. Just to put it in context of how old this is. Interestingly though, Dan, I know how

the London Underground is better than I know when the proclamation was signed so it didn't really

help me that much. I think that was more for American listeners. Got it. Yeah.

Yeah and it's so there was a big thing where you had to respect a lot of the church during those

times and one of the things was transport also had to do that and that extended to the London

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