Hi everyone, before we begin this week's episode of Fish, we just want to let you know that we have a very special guest on today.

It is the mighty host of QI herself, Sandy Toxfig. Finally, to have the Supreme Boss come and fight us with facts was a wonderful honor.

Also just to mention that this week by Coincidence, Genuine Coincidence, Sandy's book Between the Stops is coming out in paperback,

it's a memoir that collects all stories via very interesting routes, specifically a bus route of the number 12 bus,

where she travels around London, jumps off at the stops and explores her childhood and memories from her life.

I've read it, it is absolutely brilliant, it is packed with facts, every single paragraph just has something that blows your mind.

I highly recommend reading it, it's fantastic, and we hope you enjoy the show as well, so let's do it. On with the show.

Hello and welcome to another working from home 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 am sitting here with James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, and special guest, it's Sandy Toxfig.

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, Sandy.

So my fact is that Sloane Square Underground Station in London has a river running through it.

Well actually, just run through it, it runs over the trains.

Yeah, I think this is a marvelous thing that you can actually go under a river, but be on a train in that way, I love that.

It's astonishing, I've been to Sloane Square Station a lot, I've never noticed that, I've looked up photos, and I now understand what this giant metallic pipe that sort of sits above the track is.

I mean, that's the exciting thing about London, is that really nobody has a full map of it, that's the extraordinary thing.

We don't really have a full map of where everything goes, where all the pipes are, where all the deserted tunnels and so on, and that in Sloane Square is the Westmore and River,

used to be called the Serpentine River, and it was, they had to divert it when they built the underground, and they divert it into a massive pipe,

and it crosses between the platforms just above where the carriage is travel, and you can actually see it, but it's not the only one.

There are just loads and loads and loads of rivers that stop or use to course.

When I worked at the Palisthia, years and years ago, which is in the West End of London, if you go right down into the sub-sub-sub basement of the theatre,

you can open a large metal hatch, and you can see the fleet river still.

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