Hello and welcome to a

Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming to you from the QI offices in Hoburn.

This episode's Anna Tishinsky's last episode for a while, as she heads off onto maternity leave.

We'll be seeing her in nine months, but we've got one more episode.

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 fact number one, and that is my

fact. My fact this week is that Harriet Beatrice Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, wrote the novel

for the first time twice. This is a story I found it on a website that is Uncle Tom's Cabin, an American culture.

It's a dedicated page to all historical articles about Harriet Beatrice Stowe.

And in it, it points out that near the end of her life, she was suffering from a disease of the brain.

She might have had dementia, she might have had Alzheimer's, we're not quite sure.

But in that period, she found herself rewriting as if it were a new story, Uncle Tom's Cabin,

and telling everyone, I've got this amazing book that I'm writing. I think it's going to be big.

And apparently when people were looking at the writing, it was almost word for word what the

original book was. Yeah, the Washington Post said,

if the manuscript could be compared with the corresponding portions of the original copy,

it is not likely that much difference of appearance would be discovered.

So it wasn't a big pro-slavery tract suddenly that she found herself producing in the 80s.

We should explain those two things, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom's Cabin, I guess.

It's a property book, isn't it? Yeah, it's like sort of how to make a desirable residence.

House and Garden. On a budget. This is a game-changing book in America. Harry Petra Stowe,

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