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 Shriver, I am sitting here with Anna Toshinsky, James Harkin and Andrew

Hunter Murray and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite

facts from the last seven days and in a particular order here we go.

Starting with you, Andy.

My factor is that after his death Anton Chekov was brought back to Russia in a refrigerated

railway car labelled Fresh Oysters.

Wow.

So was he all nice?

Oh, I don't know if he was actually all nice.

I know that he was, he was pre-chilled.

Well, see, I think he, well, he was, he was chilled because the last thing before he died

was he had some champagne which would have been cold as well.

So yeah, this is a 1904, he was 44 years old, very young to have completely, you know,

revolutionized Russian literature and he was in a spa in Germany because he had tuberculosis

and the doctor arrived and when the doctor arrived, because things were nearing the end,

his tuberculosis was really bad at this point.

He sat up straight and he said to the doctor, Úchstauber which is, I'm dying and the doctor

just said, let's have some champagne because those, the German medical convention which

was that if you can't do anything for the patient, you just get them to hit some champagne

and that means they know what's going on and so do you.

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