74: No Such Thing As A Computer In The Oval Office

No Such Thing As A Fish

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🗓️ 14 August 2015

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Dan, James, Andy and Alex discuss the early days of MI6, donkeys with WiFi, and the world's only handwritten newspaper.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming
0:18.3	to you from the QI offices in Covenant Garden.
0:21.2	My name is Dan Schreiber, I'm sitting here with James Harkin, Andy Murray and Alex Bell,
0:25.6	and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the
0:29.1	last seven days and in no particular order, here we go.
0:33.0	Starting with my facts, and my fact this week is that according to the diary of the first
0:38.7	chief of MI6, this is how the first day went.
0:42.8	Went to the office, saw no one, nor was there anything to do there.
0:47.2	And that was the first day of proper spying in Britain.
0:50.0	Yeah, when is that because the spies were so good he couldn't find you?
0:53.7	We're in, there were seven lampstands.
0:55.8	Yeah, that's the answer.
0:57.4	So who was this?
1:00.2	Mansfield coming.
1:01.2	He's the founding chief of MI6.
1:03.7	This was in the year 1909, I believe, and he's someone we've mentioned very briefly ages
1:10.0	ago on this podcast.
1:11.0	He's the guy who used to, when he was recruiting people in MI6, would stab a knife into his leg
1:17.0	in order to see what the reaction of the person he was interviewing would be.
1:20.5	You've missed out a very important bit of that.
1:22.3	Exactly.
1:23.3	Which is that he had a wooden leg.
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