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No Such Thing As A Fish

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

4.817.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Dan, James, Andrew and Hannah Fry discuss navigation, colouration, lachrymation and an island nation.

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, welcome to this week's episode of Fish.

0:04.6

Before we get going, I just want to let you know a couple of things.

0:07.5

Firstly, the episode you're about to hear is the last episode to be recorded at the QI

0:12.7

offices in Covenant Garden as we pack up shop and move on to our new offices in Hobern.

0:18.4

So, we thought you know if we're going to go out we should go out strong.

0:22.2

So we reached out to NerdvoilT and fortunately she said yes, it's Hannah Fry.

0:27.6

My goodness, we are such huge fans of her at the QI office.

0:31.0

I think every elf has probably read her books.

0:33.3

Hello world, if you've not read that by the way, is an incredible book.

0:36.4

I'm sure you've all seen her TV series, which was out November of last year on BBC 2

0:41.4

called The Secret Genius of Modern Life was absolutely phenomenal.

0:45.2

She makes incredible TV, she writes incredible books and she is such a good guest on this week's episode.

0:50.9

You have to, by the way, check out her latest show.

0:53.9

You can find it on Bloomberg.com and it's called The Future with Hannah Fry.

0:59.0

It is a look into the world of scientists and inventors who are changing the way the world is going to be over the next century.

1:06.5

These are people who are looking into seeing if we can live a life beyond 150 years old,

1:11.4

who are working out whether or not computers will be able to read our emotions

1:15.0

and trying to find out if they can make a planet that will be utterly transformed by unlimited clean energy.

1:21.0

So do check that out. It's on Bloomberg.com or you can find the entire series on YouTube as well.

1:26.7

And otherwise, you know, next time you happen to be in Covenant Garden,

1:31.3

do take a walk down Maiden Lane and if you look above the barber shop that's called Ruffians,

1:36.8

you'll see a window there. That's where we were.

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