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No Such Thing As Chekhov's Volcano

No Such Thing As A Fish

No Such Thing As A Fish

Comedy, Nature, Science, History

4.718.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Greg Foot joins James, Anna and Andy to discuss vision, vacuums, volcanoes and Volvos. 

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0:00.0

Join the thousands of heat pump owners feeling warm and fuzzy.

0:03.0

I've lived here 20 years. I ain't moving so I thought better future prove me home.

0:07.0

We started a trend. The Alstraits are applying for the government grant now.

0:11.0

With the energy you're saved, I don't know what's better off. The planet or my wallet.

0:15.0

And their easy little bookworm says it's three times more efficient than our old boiler.

0:19.0

Feel all warm and fuzzy inside with a seven and a half thousand pound government grant towards

0:24.4

your heat pump at gov.uk.uk slash clean energy.

0:27.6

Eligibility criteria applies the website for details.

0:30.2

Hi everyone. Welcome to this week's episode of No Such Thing as a Fish where we were joined

0:34.2

by the absolutely brilliant science communicator Greg Futt.

0:38.4

Now, I have known Greg for many, many years.

0:41.2

He is really, I would say, one of the UK's premier fact checkers.

0:45.8

If you listen to BBC Radio 4, you might know him from the show Sliced Bread, where he looks

0:51.1

at different products and claims and sees whether the science backs them up or not.

0:57.1

But he has a brand new podcast. It's very exciting. It's called the Baby Fact Check.

1:04.0

And it is something that I really wish I had about three years ago when I had a very young baby

1:10.2

because Greg is a new father himself.

1:12.9

Congratulations to him and his partner.

1:14.8

And they have realized that there is so much information out there.

1:18.1

So many claims from companies from the internet.

1:21.5

And Greg has decided to use his many, many skills to work out which of these claims are true and which of them are false.

1:27.9

It's such a great idea and he has done it absolutely brilliantly.

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