Hi everybody, Andy here. Just before we start this week's show, wanted to let you know we have a very special guest on

This week Anna is away very sadly. She's on her holidays

But the great news is that in her place we have the absolutely magnificent Rachel Paris

Now I'm sure you may have heard of Rachel if you haven't frankly wherever you're being guys

She's a comedian. She's a musician. She's an actor and improviser. She does it all

She has been on so many brilliant shows and she is a musical comedian as well

She tours the country with a grand piano performing magnificently funny solo shows

She's basically the air to Tom Lear and Tim mentioned put together and on top of it all she has just published her first book

It's called advice from strangers and it's a kind of comedy book slash memoir slash feminist manifesto

All centered around the time that she traveled around the country asking her audiences to give her pieces of advice

It's funny. It's serious. It's hilarious. It's uplifting and we're so glad that she could come on the show because as you're about to hear

She was absolutely great. So that's it without further ado on with the show

Hello and welcome to another episode a 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 am sitting here with Andrew Hunter Murray James Harkin and it's our very special guest

Rachel Paris 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 Rachel

My fact is that list the composer played the piano so hard in his concerts that he regularly broke piano strings and

Super fans would nick those strings and make bracelets out of them

Oh, I

I don't play the piano but it feels like it's quite a hard thing to do to break a string

Yeah, it's a break of guitar string

Yeah, I love that half up. Yeah, that's right. It's rare

...