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No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

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🗓️ 20 November 2015

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Live from the Lyric Theatre in London, Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss William Wordsworth's nickname, lettuce grown in space, and Van Gogh's new ear.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast this
0:20.1	week coming to you from the Lyric Theater in London's West End.
0:23.6	My name is Dan Schreiber and please welcome to the stage the three regular elves.
0:27.4	It's Andy Murray, Annotch Zinsky and James Harkin.
0:29.8	And once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from
0:40.3	the last seven days and in no particular order here we go.
0:44.5	Starting with you, Andrew Hunter Murray.
0:46.8	My fact this week is that Lord Byron's nickname for William Wordsworth was William Terzworth.
0:53.9	He went away with words.
0:55.9	He was a Listerian genius.
0:57.9	Were they were living in the same time?
0:59.9	They were mates.
1:00.9	Yeah, yeah, well they weren't mates.
1:01.9	They weren't at all.
1:02.9	Yeah, Byron thought Wordsworth was very boring and so he called him that.
1:06.9	There's this whole cache of letters they've just found from Lord Byron to a friend of his.
1:09.9	It was a clergyman and yeah he's, he happens to slag off Wordsworth as Terzworth and there you go.
1:14.9	I was quite surprised that the word Terr'd existed so far back.
1:19.9	Really?
1:20.9	Yeah, did you, I thought of it as more of a modern thing.
1:22.9	I don't think of it as a word like hyperlink or...
1:27.9	I thought they were exactly the same thing.
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