No Such Thing As A Vegan Fryup

No Such Thing As A Fish

Comedy, Nature, Science, History

4.7 • 18.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2015

⏱️ 32 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Andy, James, Anna and Anne discuss obscene pottery, seriously bad signal, an Ancient apartment block and Australia's swear box.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a QI podcast
0:15.4	coming to you from our offices here in Covert, Gardurn.
0:19.5	Dan Shriver is still a way that we are working on the pronunciation.
0:22.4	My name is Andrew Murray and I'm here with three of the other QI elves.
0:25.9	They are Anne Miller, James Harkin and Anna Tijinsky and we have gathered around the microphone
0:30.8	to bring you our four favourite facts from the last seven days and there are a lot of
0:34.3	other facts we found out of the back of those.
0:39.8	So let's get going.
0:41.1	The first fact of today is Anna.
0:43.7	My fact is that from the year 800 to the year 1349 the Coliseum was used as an apartment
0:50.4	block.
0:51.4	Really?
0:52.4	Yeah.
0:53.4	We only discovered this a couple of years ago, a bunch of archaeology was done at the Coliseum
0:57.0	and they excavated it and they discovered things like sewage pipes and that is evidence
1:02.9	that it used to be a block of flats and we know it was bought by monks and then they
1:07.9	would rent it out to normal people who would take a flat there.
1:11.7	That's good.
1:12.7	That's what happened and the space where they all did all the fighting and the back in
1:15.7	the ancient world was a communal living space where they'd have their market space or where
1:21.4	they graze their animals or where they just hang out.
1:23.6	Have a barbecue.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from No Such Thing As A Fish, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of No Such Thing As A Fish and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.