Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish A Weekly Podcast coming

to you from the QI offices in Covenant Garden.

My name is Dan Triber, I'm sitting here with James Harkin, Andy Murray, and today's

special guest, its author of a new book called Male Obsession, It's Mark Mason.

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 Murray.

My fact is that for the Queen's coronation, people dressed up as television sets.

She's passed the Giggle test, Andy.

So this is, I read this in an article by the historian Kate Williams in the observer and

it seems to come from a book of policemen's memoirs, or the one of the first female

beat police officers wrote a book of memoirs about her experiences and she describes it

and I think a couple of other sources say it as well.

So this is because it was such a huge thing for it to be televised.

Television's were bought in huge numbers across the country for the coronation.

I think 20 million people watched and on average there were 17 people watching each TV

set.

And I think of TVs at the time, there were tiny, you know, screens of few inches from corner

to corner.

So you would just go to the person in your street who had a TV in you.

Yeah, you know what went up in sales as well.

So TVs went up massively in sales and so did massive magnifying glasses.

So they really magnify it so that more people could come and see.

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