Hi everyone, James here. Now before we start this week's show, I just want to tell you one little

thing about it and that is that it was actually recorded quite a long time ago, all the way back

in February in fact. And the reason I want to tell you that is because first of all, it's

obviously in the office and we're all still in our homes at the moment. And also because there'll

be a few things that we might say in there that might really perhaps give away that we didn't record

it this week, for instance. I do talk about Jasper Carrot for a while and that probably would have

been a dated reference anytime that we'd said it in the last five years. But hey, when you listen

you'll get the idea. So enjoy the show and just marvel about how young we all sounded back in February.

Okay, I'm with the podcast.

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

from the QI offices in Covert Garden. My name is Dan Schreiber. I'm sitting here with James

Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray and Anna Chazinski. 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, Anna. My fact this week is that in the 18th century, women express their

political beliefs by wearing decorative stickers on their faces. Wow, what kind of stickers did they

say like vote labor or? Yeah, screw you, Boris. Wow, very impressive.

Very prescient of them. Women have amazing foresight. And four heads?

No, this one's so facial stickers were in this huge fashion for about sort of 200 years. And about

the turn of the 18th century, they suddenly became political. And so there was one commentator

for instance who said that he went to the opera and he saw two parties, a very fine women, as he

said, arranged in battle formation against each other. And he said one group was wearing patches

and stickers on the left side of their foreheads and the other on the right. He became a parent,

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