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No Such Thing As A Fish

95: No Such Thing As A Millipede Embassy

No Such Thing As A Fish

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

4.817.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2016

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Anna, James, Andy and Alex discuss Roman pig-dragons, cross-border sex and walking worms.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Things A Fish coming to you from the

0:16.3

QILs in Covent Garden.

0:19.0

My name is Anna Tishinsky, I'm sitting here with Andy Murray, Alex Bell and James Harkin

0:24.9

and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favourite facts from the

0:28.7

last seven days in no particular order here they are.

0:33.7

And that's starting with you Andy.

0:36.8

My fact this week is that Czech dear still avoid crossing the Iron Curtain between Germany

0:42.8

and the Czech Republic.

0:45.1

So they used to be the Iron Curtain which was a very very long electrified fence in between

0:50.8

the two countries during the Cold War and at the end of the Cold War the Czech and the

0:55.1

German authorities they established a nature reserve going across the country they thought

0:59.0

this is a really nice idea.

1:00.3

We'll have this huge habitat all sorts of species, we'll have lots of them to play in and

1:05.6

there'll be more animals as a result and it'll all be good for biodiversity.

1:08.8

It turns out 20 years later that dear on the Czech side just will not cross that border.

1:12.7

So what you're saying is that all dear are communists?

1:16.1

These are red dear for a nice bit.

1:20.2

And the headline from the Wall Street Journal when this study was reported was deep in the

1:24.5

forest, Bambeer remains the Cold War's last prisoner.

1:28.4

She's a good headline.

1:30.7

There's a strip through Germany which was called the Death Strip I think because it was that

1:35.9

strip it was sort of like a 5 kilometer area between East and West Germany where you

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