Hi everybody, just before we start this week's show, we wanted to let you know we have a very exciting guest on

It's none other than the undercover economist himself Tim Halford

Tim Halford is a brilliant writer thinker. He makes books. He makes radio shows. He makes books. He's a bookmaker

He's a bookmaker. He makes two turns trees into paper. He's bound a million books. It's so amazing

Like if you've heard of messy or 50 things that made the modern economy or the undercover economist all of these books

They're by him. They are and he's got a podcast called cautionary tales which I would massively recommend

I've just been listening to a bunch of them. They are brilliant and true life stories which teach you things about how humans behave

I've been listening to one about the mummy's curse

There's an excellent one on Hansel and Gretel

Which is really amazing and they often have a little twist at the end and really well told so check out that podcast

But first of all, let's into this one on with the show on with the show

Hello and welcome to another episode of no such thing as I fish the weekly podcast coming to you this week from

four top secret underground undisclosed locations. My name is Anna Toshinsky and I am sitting here today with James Harkin

Andrew Hunter Murray and our very special guest Tim Halford and once again we've gathered around our microphones

With our four favorite fracts in the last seven days and in no particular order

Here we go starting with you Tim

My fact is that in 1939

The young doctor at Boston City Hospital went on a scurvy producing diet to see what would happen

In May 1940 his fellow doctors staged an intervention after his skin started to bleed from his follicles and an old post operative scar reopened

Now lovely

Why did because the people sort of knew what happened when you got scurvy at that point right why why was you doing this

They did so he survived by the way so I read the medical paper that he and a colleague wrote after this experiment

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